John Haworth Drewry Letters
Letters from John Haworth Drewry to his parents. Learn more.
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Telephone. 35 Hooton. RFC Per Ardua Ad Astra
Hooton Hall, Little Sutton, Chester.
letters sent from London have, I expect, reached you by this time, so you will know I am safe in Old England.
Tommy Drew-Brook, four Canadians and myself are the only pupils here at the present. We are flying a type of machine known as the "Avro". This machine has a rotary engine in it, something new new to us all and does about 80 miles an hour. They are a comfortable "bus", very strong and "safe as a church". After we have done about 20 hours in these and had a bit of practice in
BC Archives, 93-6553 Box 4 DREWRY FAMILY Selected Correspondence, 1917 – 1919.