John Haworth Drewry Letters
Letters from John Haworth Drewry to his parents. Learn more.
*All transcriptions are provided by volunteers, and the accuracy of the transcriptions is not guaranteed. Please be sure to verify the information by viewing the image record, or visiting the BC Archives in person.
Current Page Transcription [edit] [history]
of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Sometimes you may be flying above a strata of cloud, over Hunland. If there is nothing to be seen above these clouds after a careful search you will probably begin to watch openings in the clouds below. if a Hun should show himself in one of these openings you promptly fall on him with great "éclat" and much clatter of machine guns. If the Hun is an experienced pilot he will be close under the clouds and promptly climb into them. Then watch out! If you are wise you will climb above the clouds and watch the nearest opening. The Hun will stay in the cloud for a short time, seeing nothing, and creep cautiously forth. he sees you have disappeared
BC Archives, 93-6553 Box 4 / DREWRY FAMILY / Selected Correspondence, 1917–1919.