On 16th July 1940 Hitler ordered the invasion of England (Operation Sealion)
On 19th July 1940 Hitler demanded the surrender of Great Britain.
Friday 19th July 1940
Dinton
Wilts
Friday evening
My Darling Cho-cho,
Thanks for the letter and photos. I thought they were pretty hot. Thanks also for such kind sympathy over my recent illness and confinement (heights of sarcasm!...). I thought I was with child, as the Russians say.
I’ve just read quite a good Penguin – Carl and Anna*, which is a translation from the German by Leonhard Frank (Karl und Anna), which cheered me up not a little.
I feel quite fit now and ready for love as the P.T. bloke says. He also says quite a lot of other things but not in this letter….
I got round the C.S.M for a stripe** this morning. He’s putting me in for one as soon as possible.
I’m putting in for leave for next week-end (the 27th). I think it’s pretty definite. It had better be… There is a corporal who has just come, who hasn’t had any leave for six months, plus he lives at Wareham!*** – so I’m really quite lucky.
I managed to win another cross-country on Wednesday last. There is a chap here who is junior cross-country champ of the Channel Isles & who gave me the helluva run. He’s got a wonderful action but is too young to do wonders yet. I’m going to try to mix running and lifting after this show, with your permission…
I’m just going to have something to eat.
Having had a little shandy and some sausage rolls I feel somewhat more cheerful.
There is little or no news. We still haven’t moved but are hoping to go, Monday next. Toni has to see some Brigadier or other, tomorrow re his commission.
George has just rolled up. He sends best wishes etc.
I must close now
bye bye darling
Dicker
* “a realistic, if sentimental, account of a soldier who seduces his comrade’s wife”
** promotion to lance corporal (C.S.M. = Company Sergeant Major)
*** Wareham - a town in Dorset near Poole
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