Stan and Grace

2364226 Sergt. S. Bristow Headquarters 15 L of C Signals Cen. Med. Forces 10 Sep. 44 .                                                                          202. My Very Own Precious Darling, What a day its been to-day!   Our little town has really been gay, for to-day has been the biggest “festa” of the year and the last of the summer months, the Feast of the Madonna, and its been a real gala day.   Now it's close on midnight, but there’s “sounds of revelry by night” (to quote the poet) still drifting into my bedroom on the cool night air. The proceedings started early this morning with the religious par...

G.H.N. 9.9.44             My Very Precious Darling, Ivy and I have just returned from a very enjoyable evening out.   We have been to the Albert Hall to hear the Halle Orchestra.   Darling, I wish you could have been with me.   I know that you would have enjoyed it as much as I did.   The music was really delightful. The piece which really thrilled me was Tchaikovsky’s Symphony no: 4 in F minor but it is hopeless for me to try and explain to you what it was really like – all I know is that I was simply carried away with the whole thing.   It is the very first time I have ever been to a Symphony Concert but it will not be the last. As Ivy and I will not be here together for much longer we decided to make an evening of it and we went to the County Hotel where we had a very nice dinner. To-day has been a very good day altogether as I have received two letters from you my Dear.   One arrived thi...

Note to readers - this is the second letter from Stan written on the 6 September.  Scroll down on the main blog page for letters written on the 6th from both Stan and Grace.   2364226 Sergt. S. Bristow Headquarters 15 L of C Signals Cen. Med. Forces 6 Sep. 44 .                                                                                               201. My Very Own Precious Darling, It was very troubling to receive your letter this morning and find that everything was so unsatisfactory with regard to your immediate future.  Whilst...

2364226 Sergt. S. Bristow Headquarters 15 L of C Signals Cen. Med. Forces 6 Sep. 44 .                                                                                                200. My Very Own Precious Darling, Quite a day today!   Our anniversary and my 200 th letter to you.   The APO commemorated it suitably by delivering a letter from you so I am quite happy considering the circumstances; at least as happy as I ever will be until the day when we are together again. There’s the usual complaint, lack of news, about the only thing I’...

G.H.N. 4.9.44 My Very Own Darling, A letter arrived from you this morning dated Aug:27 th .   Your letters mean everything to me Darling – they are the brightest spots of my existence whilst you are away. As you say in your letter August was certainly a month of events.   Let us hope that September is even more eventful – if the happenings of these first few days are anything to go by. All I want my Darling is to get this war over quickly and have you home again.   I never thought that I could miss anybody as much as I have missed you. Once again I have been to see the Appointments Officer for the Ministry of Labour.   I told her that I was not going to Belper.   Kit came with me as we had both decided that we would go to Hull – we had been told that the Fever Hospital there was a good training school.   However, she had not any vacancies at Hull and asked us if we would go to Grimsby as there were vacancies there, so we said that we would. ...

2364226 Sergt. S. Bristow Headquarters 15 L of C Signals Cen. Med. Forces 3 Sep. 44 .                                                                                                 197. My Very Own Precious Darling, During past weeks my Sunday letter to you has usually been written on the beach, but to-day “rain stopped play” has far as swimming was concerned, a terrific thunderstorm broke after lunch & is still raging as I sit on my bed scribbling this. The Army Post Office performed according to schedule today & I’ve just had your letter ...