John Haworth Drewry Letters
Letters from John Haworth Drewry to his parents. Learn more.
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R.A.F. Station, Eastchurch, Kent.
June 18, 1919.
Dearest Mother:-
I've just come back from ten days leave and much to my disgust found on my table a letter I wrote you just before leaving and thought I had posted. In fact I was quite sure of having posted it and never gave it a thought while away. Anyway, in it I told you I expected to leave for home very soon, but I am not listed for the Megantic which sails with a number of Canadians on the 28th of this month. I wish I could get some real satisfaction out of these people.
I spent my leave in the seaside resort of Southend-on-Sea, an hour out of London and just across the Thames estuary from this place. Two very nice girls I
BC Archives, 93-6553, Box 4, / DREWRY FAMILY / Selected correspondence, 1917 – 1918.