Salisbury again - 24th July 1940

PS  address 5731671

6^th Dorsets ‘D’ Company

3 platoon

Wilton Rd

Salisbury

Salisbury

Wednesday afternoon

My darling Cho-cho,

    Have just received your letter.  As you will see from above, we have at last moved to Salisbury. We marched the whole way, that is, all except me who went on a bike directing traffic!

   

    We are at present only allowed out one night in four, my turn coming tonight.  We intend to have some fun in Salisbury….

    I’m afraid I’ll have to disappoint you as regards next week-end.  Owing to the large number of deserters, all leave has been cancelled.  It’s the hell of a nuisance, but I may manage some later on.  There are so many hapless individuals who haven’t had any leave for months.

     

I get a pretty full time now, as many hundreds more have joined up and all have to be trained.  I still haven’t got my stripe, but as there are many Terriers* with ten months’ service still without one I mustn’t be impatient, though I think I’ll have one by my next leave.

   

    I must close now darling to catch the post

    bye bye

    Dicker

* Territorial Army – the volunteer reserve force for the Army.

 

From late July to the end of August 1940

 Dick was in ‘D’ company, and then attached to ‘G’ company,

of the 6^th Dorsets,

based at Bemerton, near Salisbury, in Wiltshire,

but spent most of August on a PT instruction course

at Tidworth in Hampshire

 

© Chotie Darling, 2010

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