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John Haworth Drewry Letters

Letters from John Haworth Drewry to his parents. Learn more.

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BC Archives MS-3140

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No. 12

In the Field

May 25, 1918.

Dearest Mother,

To-day is another of those cloudless days that spells work for us and I am sitting in the shade of a hut, in my short-sleeves expecting to be sent up in a job any minute. In the meantime I am writing you, though in all probability I won't be able to finish before going up.

I have just finished writing to Mrs. Blomfield one of those letters which are a task and a tax on anyone. Poor little Tommy D.-B. failed to come back from patrol last Tuesday so of course I wrote to his aunt and told her of the squadron's loss. Fortunately the circumstances under which he was lost lead us to believe that

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

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