Telephone. 35 Hooton. RAC Per Ardua Ad Astra

Hooton Hall, Little Sutton, Chester. Nov 11, 1917

Dearest Mother:-

Since I wrote you (it seems ages ago) I was sent to the above address, about 15 miles south of Liverpool on the River Mersey. A couple of days after I got here I was orderly officer and that night a big wind came up wit a driving rain. As our few machines (this is a new station) were in tent hangars I had to be up most of the night keeping the men busy reinforcing all the guy-ropes and pinning. Of course I caught a slight cold. The next

BC Archives, 93-6553 Box 4 DREWRY FAMILY Selected Correspondence, 1917 – 1919.