had got to that stage where the whole business oppressed me and I didn't seem to care much for anything but self-preservation, though not to the extent of funking the job – thank goodness. I stayed with Tommy Drew-Brook's aunt in Pontefract and Tommy was also there, on sick-leave. We were kept busy playing tennis – at home or visiting – and being shown off! for aviators are not so plentiful as to be commonplace up there. I have never had such kindness shown me in my life as by the Blomfields. You can't realize what leave in England would be without some place to go and relax. The Blomfields are a lovely family and they made me be just one of them

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