61st Recce Regt RAC
BLA.
Chotie Darling,
Many thanks for your last letters – I’m afraid I’ve been rather pushed for time, or I would have replied before.
Once again I’m with the Sintobins and living in complete luxury, which is quite a welcome break for us.
You’ll find two photographs* enclosed that they took, just as I was leaving the last time, to slow up von Runstedt a little. You’ll see a look of calm purposefulness (?) written all over my face ….
They really are a fine family here – I must certainly make the effort to see them again after the war. They gave a dinner for us – my Squadron leader Brian Coote** (Sandhurst mate), Ronnie and myself – last night which was a great success. Madame Sintobin went out to dine with the Colonel*** a few nights ago. She thought it a terrific honour….
I had a very unfortunate stroke of luck the day before yesterday. I had a letter from Bryn telling me he was in a town just seven kilometres from here. Accordingly I gripped some transport and after several false starts arrived at the town to find he had left that morning. Deadly, wasn’t it? He’s now hundreds of miles away, so we’ve had it for some time. His letter took four days to do four miles. If only it had arrived in reasonable time I could have met him and brought him in for a meal with my family here.
Is there anything further concerning your continental tour? I see they still want them****. It would certainly be more interesting than being in England but rather a gamble as you might well stay there for years.
Well, Darling, must close here to write the family.
All my love precious
Dicker
P.S. Have just received a lovely little diary from your mother. Will write her this afternoon.
*Photographs of Dick and the Sintobin-Anne family in Iseghem:
Ronnie, Madame Sintobin-Anne, Jan, Edmond, Dick and Suzanne
Ronnie, Jan Sintobin-Anne and Dick
Ronnie and Dick with la famille Sintobin-Anne, Iseghem
**presumably Major Frank Harding's replacement
***Colonel Philip Brownrigg
****Towards the end of the war service women in the UK were asked to volunteer to relieve men who had been serving abroad for some time.
© Chotie Darling
This letter was sent to Fort Godwin
c/o Easington near Hull
so Chotie had moved station yet again.
Fort Godwin and the other Spurn Point Batteries, are now derelict and threatened by the moving sands and the sea. They were pretty awful when Mum (Chotie) was there:
‘We moved to Spurn Point, indescribably stark…’ (from ‘Chotie’s Story’).
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