Sunday, 3 and Monday, 4 October, 1943

G.H.N.

3-10-43                                                                                                               (61)

My Own Darling

Time is creeping on but still no letter from you.  It is almost four weeks since I received your last air-letter.  How I wish that the A.P.O. would speed things up a bit and deliver your letters.  However, I suppose I will have to have a little more patience.  I am afraid that I do get impatient where you letters are concerned.  They mean such a lot to me.

I have just returned from a visit to the pictures.  Kit and I went to see Alice Foy and John Payne in “Hello, Frisco, Hello”.  We quite enjoyed it.  The film was in technicolour.  There was not much story behind it but it was very entertaining.  Alice Foy has definitely improved since I last saw her.

4-10-43

As the lights went out on me last night I was not able to finish this.

This morning the nurses and convalescent soldiers in Nottingham got a special invitation to go to the Ritz Cinema to see the film “For Ever and a Day”.  It was well worth seeing.

We are very busy on the ward these days.  It is our “take-in” week and we have admitted eighteen patients in four days.  Most of them are very ill, as I will leave you to guess what it is like.  I should have been off duty at 8 to-night but I managed to crawl off at 9.15 p.m.

This afternoon we admitted a little boy aged six who had been knocked down by a van.  Poor little chap.  We have done everything possible for him but I am afraid he is not going to live.

You must be tired of reading all this shop so I will switch on to something else.

I had a letter from home this morning telling me that Grandfather is very weak now.  They do not expect him to live many more days.  Vera had not much else to tell me.  All at home wish to be remembered to you.

I thought that I might be going on night duty this month but with Sister being off sick I think that they will keep me on this ward until she returns.  I shall try and get home however, for Mother’s birthday which is the end of this month.  Space is very small Darling so I will say Au-Revoir until my next letter.

All my love Precious, Grace  xxxxx

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