John Haworth Drewry Letters
Letters from John Haworth Drewry to his parents. Learn more.
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RFC PER ARDUA AD ASTRA
CAMP RATHBUN DESERONTO
August 27, 1917
Dear Mother:-
Last Sunday I was prevented from writing letters by reason of a trip I took by aeroplane. I took an officer about 100 miles northwest of here, over the roughest part of Ontario. We expected to get back the same day but the weather was too poor for a long trip back so we did not get back till Tuesday afternoon and I have been at it all week since. I am sorry it happened that way as Aunt Mary was to leave the Bowens for a time on Tuesday and I had not seen her for several days. Still, I am proud of having made the trip, as I believe it was the longest and most difficult cross-country flight made by any of the R.F.C. boys in Canada.
One of our flying-officers has been sent to New York to recruit so I have command of "C" flight in our squadron (there are three flights to a squadron). It is a good experience though something of a responsibility for one without experience. However I can but do
BC Archives, 93-6553 Box 4 DREWRY FAMILY Selected Correspondence, 1917 – 1919.