Stan and Grace

G.H.N. 10.10.44                                                                    191 My Most Precious Darling, I hoped that there might be a letter from you to-day but no – I was doomed to disappointment.   There will probably be a letter from you tomorrow though. I don’t think I mentioned in my last letter that I went to see “For Whom the Bell Tolls.”   It was a really good film.   The acting was superb.   I have not read the book so I cannot compare the picture with it but I thought that it was well worth seeing. Kit and I go for our interview at Kendray Hospital on Friday.   Will let you know the result afterwards. Am wri...

2364226                                                                    Sergt. S. Bristow Headquarters 15 L of C Signals Cen. Med. Forces 8 Oct. 44 .                                                                                            216. My Own Most Precious Darling, The Army Post Office has dropped at least 200 per cent in my estimation during the last few days.   Do you know h...

2364226                                                                    Sergt. S. Bristow Headquarters 15 L of C Signals Cen. Med. Forces 6 Oct. 44 .                                                                                            215. Hello, My Own Darling, The Army Post Office has let me down today.   It's our anniversary day & they haven’t sent me a letter.   Just ...

G.H.N. 5.10.4                                                              188. My Own Darling, I posted a sea-letter to you this morning but thought that I would write you this air-letter as sea letters take such an age to reach you. I hoped that there would be a letter from you this morning but there was not.   You know Dear, I am quite greedy where letters from you are concerned.   The more I get and the more I want! Yes, I do remember going into the Elephant in Doncaster with you and your Mother.   You said that you did not think that there was any harm in going into a place like that but that I would argue about that statement.   Well – no I do not.  ...

Grimethorpe 1-10-44 My Very Precious Darling, As it is Sunday evening and I have not got an air-letter left and as it is such a long time since I wrote you a sea letter and as I think that the first of the month deserves a letter as it means one month nearer our re-union – well, I thought that I would write this tonight. Mother and Dad are out at some sort of Variety show at Moorthorpe, leaving Vera and I alone.   I am sitting in the old armchair in Vera’s bedroom as I write this and a beautiful fire is burning in the grate. I have just been saying to Vera “If only Stan were sitting in this chair – “ and then my thoughts went back to nearly two years ago and the times you sat in this same chair and the times you made toast by this fire and the times we kissed in this same bedroom and oh, Darling, lots and lots of other thoughts of the little simple things we did together.   How precious those memories are to me now my Darling but when I think about them how my heart ...

2364226               Sergt. S. Bristow Headquarters 15 L of C Signals Cen. Med. Forces 3 Oct. 44 .                                                                             214. Hello, My Darling I think it’s a good job I got back from Rome when I did.   Had I left it a week later I should probably have had to swim back!   As you’ll probably heard on the wireless we have been getting just a little bit more than our fair share of rain during the past few days.   Today the sun shone for the first time for about five days. Yes, Darling, I sympathise with...