Stan and Grace

G.H.N.                                                                                                                              (127) 13.5.44 My Very Own Darling, Two air-letters arrived from you yesterday, dated May 2 nd and 4 th .   Your letters are arriving very regularly these days and coming in such a short time too.   Of course – that is how I like it. You seem to be doing a lot of reading these days.   I have not done any for a fortnight.   Howeve...

2364226 Sergt. S. Bristow Headquarters 15 L of C Signals Cen Med Forces                                                                            147. 11 May 44 My Very Own Darling, It is getting very late but I thought I would write a few lines to you before I go to sleep. I’ve just finished clearing up one or two odds and ends in the office and have just completed the packing of any bits and pieces ready for my journey to Naples tomorrow morning. I am really looking forward to this holiday of mine.   Only two things stop me from being completely happy.   First, I wish that you were coming with...

G.H.N.                                                                                                                              (126) 10-5-44             10 p/m My Very Own Darling, I really wanted to write and post this letter earlier to-day but just as I was about to go off duty Casualty decided to send an acute Appendicitis up.   Not having a senior nurse to leave on I had to stay on duty myself.   Consequently I did not get to my room until 8.30 p/m ...

2364226 Sergt. S. Bristow Headquarters 15 L of C Signals Cen Med Forces                                                                            146. 9 May 44 My Very Own Darling, It is too good to be true!   Another letter from you yesterday which took only six days.   I shall never grumble at the APO again!! I see that like me you are counting the months as they pass. I do so wish the much talked about second front would start.   If we could get cracking in Europe it would be very encouraging wouldn’t it?    I hope that once our troops have landed on the continent it won’t be a l...

2364226                                   Sergt. S. Bristow Headquarters 15 L of C Signals                                                                                       144. Cen Med Forces 6 May 44 My Very Own Darling, It has been oppressively hot all today and I am just spending the last hour before turning in on the balcony of the Sergts’ Mess. The sky is as only a Mediterranean sky can be – a deep purple, bejewelled with hundreds of twinkling stars, while up over the whitewashed houses the moon is r...

G.H.N.                                                                                                               (125) 6-5-44 My Very Own Darling, I had just finished writing your letter yesterday when your parcel of almonds and “Yanks” arrived.   Thank you Darling.   They are delicious – especially the sugared almonds. As I shall not be going home for a few weeks I have parcelled half of them up to send to your Mother.   It is so good of you to keep sending me these things.   I ...