Stan and Grace

G.H.N. 27-8-44                                                                                     170 My Precious Darling, It is Sunday evening and once more I am back at the G.H.N. after a rather quiet but pleasant week-end.   A week-end crowded with happy memories of the days we spent together in Grimethorpe, as all my days spent at home are. When I arrived in Doncaster Friday evening I found my Father waiting in the bus station for me.   He was on holiday last week and Friday afternoon Mother had sent him into Doncaster to see if he could get some fruit for bottling.   Being a mere...

2364226 Sergt. S. Bristow Headquarters 15 L of C Signals Cen. Med. Forces 26 Aug. 44 .                                                                          195. My Very Own Darling, Since writing to you last night, two things have happened which make it necessary for me to write to you again this evening. Firstly, I had a very nice epistle from you by this morning's mail, which assured me of being in excellent spirits for the rest of the day (yes, dear, your letters are the best tonic I can ever have) and secondly I managed to get the snap I’ve been promising you for the past couple of weeks.* I am enclosing it ...

2364226 Sergt. S. Bristow Headquarters 15 L of C Signals Cen. Med. Forces 25 Aug. 44 .                                                                                         194. My Very Own Precious Darling, I received an extra thrilling letter from you today which made me very happy.   It was a sea letter which you wrote on the last day of your holiday in which you recalled all the happy memories which Grimethorpe holds for you. I suppose that I didn’t ought to be glad that you are unhappy when you are at home without me, but I am Darling, for it tells me just how ...

G.H.N.                                                                      169 24-8-44 My Very Own Darling, An air letter arrived from you yesterday dated Aug 16 th and another one arrived this morning dated Aug 14 th , so where the latter one had been hiding I do not know. Well Darling, the news these last two days has certainly been excellent has it not?   Paris being freed and Bulgaria capitulating.   If things continue to progress at this pace I think that Christmas 1945 may mean quite a lot to us which is what you were hoping in one of your letters. The last eighteen months have also seemed a long, long, time to me Darlin...

2364226 Sergt. S. Bristow Headquarters 15 L of C Signals Cen. Med. Forces 23 Aug. 44 .                                                                          193. My Most Precious Darling, Something or other cropped up to prevent me from writing last night, so I’m afraid that this letter will be a day later than usual.   Still, I’ve got plenty to write about to-day. What do you think of the fall of Paris, Darling?   Simply marvellous, isn’t it?   And now the Yanks are only 200 miles from the German border.   I feel sure it can’t last much longer in Europe. Such good news always makes me so exci...

G.H.N.                                                                                168 22-8-44 My Very Own Darling, Yesterday I went for my interview with the Ministry of Labour or at least with the representative of same.   I was asked which field of Nursing I wished to enter so told her none, that I preferred general nursing.   I was also told that no Nurse that took her “Finals” last September was being deferred and that we all had to leave our training hospitals and take up another branch of nursing. However, in the end the interviewer told me that I could chose one of two posts which require...