John Haworth Drewry Letters
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| − | As for myself, I am not in love with this instructing business, though I still enjoy flying alone as much as ever. Today I took a machine up to test it | + | |
| + | a Victoria boy Leonard Punnett. No. 85 C.T.S. is also at this camp and young McCallum is a second lieutenant there so Victoria is well represented amongst our officers. My "O.C." is a Captain Da Costa from Toronto. He served in the R.F.C. several months in France and is now home without a scratch. The adjutant of our squadron is a Lieut. who has returned from the front & has been wounded. They are both very nice fellows and very likeable. The senior lieutenant of our squadron is a Lieut. Layton, an Englishman who has flown about 500 hours in France as an observer and pilot. He is a quiet fellow about 35 years old and possesses a stammer which comes on at odd intervals. | ||
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| + | As for myself, I am not in love with this instructing business, though I still enjoy flying alone as much as ever. Today I took a machine up to test it and flew over your native town. I had not enough time to drop in and pay the Bristols a call as I should have liked to. By the way Uncle Fred must have written them that I was here and | ||
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| + | BC Archives, 93-6553 | ||
| + | Box 4 | ||
| + | DREWRY FAMILY | ||
| + | Selected Correspondence, 1917 – 1919. | ||
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a Victoria boy Leonard Punnett. No. 85 C.T.S. is also at this camp and young McCallum is a second lieutenant there so Victoria is well represented amongst our officers. My "O.C." is a Captain Da Costa from Toronto. He served in the R.F.C. several months in France and is now home without a scratch. The adjutant of our squadron is a Lieut. who has returned from the front & has been wounded. They are both very nice fellows and very likeable. The senior lieutenant of our squadron is a Lieut. Layton, an Englishman who has flown about 500 hours in France as an observer and pilot. He is a quiet fellow about 35 years old and possesses a stammer which comes on at odd intervals.
As for myself, I am not in love with this instructing business, though I still enjoy flying alone as much as ever. Today I took a machine up to test it and flew over your native town. I had not enough time to drop in and pay the Bristols a call as I should have liked to. By the way Uncle Fred must have written them that I was here and
BC Archives, 93-6553 Box 4 DREWRY FAMILY Selected Correspondence, 1917 – 1919.