John Haworth Drewry Letters
Letters from John Haworth Drewry to his parents. Learn more.
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Telephone, 35 Hooton. RAC PER ARDUA AD ASTRA
Hooton Hall, Little Sutton, Chester
this place over as quarters for an Officers' Training Corps, and now the R.F.C. has it. It is a place of tremendous rooms with 18 foot ceilings, beautiful walnut doors, fine oak floors and ornately decorated walls and ceilings. It is heated only by fireplaces and has not electric lights so it is not as "grand" as the name implies. However, we are quite comfortable and have a good mess and good officers over us.
Our C.O. Major Kelly is a fine man, and enforces precautions ensuring the safety of his pilots which many a C.O. would not show them the consideration by doing. He is a real English gentleman and has won the respect of us all. My Flight Commander (I am in "A" flight) is a Captain Gethin. He is the son of a knight, and entered the army a as a Tommy. He served in Egypt where he joined the R.F.C. After serving with the R.F.C. in Egypt he was flying in France and rose to the rank of Major. I believe he was insulted by some boor of a Major in the R.F.C. who was senior to him, and refused to accept the insult. The result was he was reduced to a Captaincy. It seems too bad for he is one of the finest of men – the kind of man on whose
BC Archives, 93-6553 Box 4 DREWRY FAMILY Selected Correspondence, 1917 – 1919.