20 June 1943
Dear Angela
I have been waiting for a reply from you but as none has arrived I have decided to put pen to paper myself.
At present I am having a short vacation before going back to work. I have just finished a week of exams and am waiting for the dreaded list being pinned up at College. I can’t quite realise that if I pass this year I will be taking my finals next year – however that remains to be seen.
I have been in the sea for a bathe twice this week and quite enjoyed it even if it was a little cold. The college sports are next Saturday and it seems as if I am going to have a ‘job’ to get a place in the sprints as some of the new students are fairly fast; and they have the advantage of being fit which is more than I am.
You will have heard about the Home Guard over here, well the College Company are going to enter a team for the H.G. sports so it seems as if I will have to get myself fit some-time.
I can’t remember if I gave you an address for Ginny Barnett to write to, but my friend has written three times in all and has had no reply. I will give you his address now just in case I haven’t sent it before
Mr RD Holt
Rostherne
Park Lea Road
Roker
Sunderland
I think I did send his address because I can recollect saying that he is usually called Rod – however there is no harm done in sending it a second time – (I must be losing my memory). However I can remember sending you a terrible photo and promising to send a better one, well I think you will agree that the one enclosed is better than the other one, even if is only a little better.
I had a ‘medical’ a few weeks ago and they seemed to think I was A.1 but I didn’t feel it – I will have to have an interview after the exam results are published, in order to decide my fate when I get my degree. At present I am neutral – I can’t decide which of the three services is the best for an engineer (?). Excuse the long sentences – my English never was very good.
I believe I once mentioned one of my pals being in the R.A.F. – he got the D.F.M. last week and every one at the ‘old’ school feels quite proud of him.
I don’t seem to have said much about the war yet but I am afraid I can’t tell you all I would like to – except that we had quite a taste of it during the last month or so – it is quite a sickly taste too. I don’t know whether the censor will let this pass or not, however I have left out all the details in the hope that he will.
Well, I must close now as I have run out of news. Hoping you receive the photo.
Love
Harold
Dear Angela
I have been waiting for a reply from you but as none has arrived I have decided to put pen to paper myself.
At present I am having a short vacation before going back to work. I have just finished a week of exams and am waiting for the dreaded list being pinned up at College. I can’t quite realise that if I pass this year I will be taking my finals next year – however that remains to be seen.
I have been in the sea for a bathe twice this week and quite enjoyed it even if it was a little cold. The college sports are next Saturday and it seems as if I am going to have a ‘job’ to get a place in the sprints as some of the new students are fairly fast; and they have the advantage of being fit which is more than I am.
You will have heard about the Home Guard over here, well the College Company are going to enter a team for the H.G. sports so it seems as if I will have to get myself fit some-time.
I can’t remember if I gave you an address for Ginny Barnett to write to, but my friend has written three times in all and has had no reply. I will give you his address now just in case I haven’t sent it before
Mr RD Holt
Rostherne
Park Lea Road
Roker
Sunderland
I think I did send his address because I can recollect saying that he is usually called Rod – however there is no harm done in sending it a second time – (I must be losing my memory). However I can remember sending you a terrible photo and promising to send a better one, well I think you will agree that the one enclosed is better than the other one, even if is only a little better.
I had a ‘medical’ a few weeks ago and they seemed to think I was A.1 but I didn’t feel it – I will have to have an interview after the exam results are published, in order to decide my fate when I get my degree. At present I am neutral – I can’t decide which of the three services is the best for an engineer (?). Excuse the long sentences – my English never was very good.
I believe I once mentioned one of my pals being in the R.A.F. – he got the D.F.M. last week and every one at the ‘old’ school feels quite proud of him.
I don’t seem to have said much about the war yet but I am afraid I can’t tell you all I would like to – except that we had quite a taste of it during the last month or so – it is quite a sickly taste too. I don’t know whether the censor will let this pass or not, however I have left out all the details in the hope that he will.
Well, I must close now as I have run out of news. Hoping you receive the photo.
Love
Harold
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