AEROPLANE EXPERIMENTAL STATION, MARLESMAN HEATH, NR WOODBRIDGE, SUFFOLK.

R.A.F Station, Eastchurch, Kent.

June 18, 1919.

Dearest Mother,

I've just come back from ten days leave and much to my disgust found on my table a letter I wrote you just before leaving and thought I had posted. In fact I was quite sure of having posted it and never gave it a thought while away. Anyway, in it I told you I expected to leave for home very soon, but I am not listed for the Megantic which sails with a number of Canadians on the 28th of this month. I wish I could get some real satisfaction out of these people.

I spent my leave in the seaside resort of Southend-on-Sea, an hour out of London and just across the Thames estuary from this place. Two very nice girls I

BC Archives, 93-6553, Box 4, DREWRY FAMILY, Selected correspondence, 1917 – 1918.