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John Haworth Drewry Letters

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a Victoria boy Leonard [Prinnett?] 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 "QC" 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 observe 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 an 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