Stan and Grace

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...

G.H.N. 2.10.44                                                                     187 My Very Own Darling, How nice it was to find two letters from you awaiting my arrival back from my week-end. I am so glad that you enjoyed your leave Darling.   I suppose that by now you will have got over your tiring time in Rome.   However, if you will go gadding about! Hope that the Censor lets your sea letter come through this time, telling me all about it. As I travelled back this evening I realised that it would be the last time I should be returning to the G.H.N.   That thought though did not give me any regrets.   As I have said befo...