Thursday 14th October 1943

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Sergt. S. Bristow                                                                                               68.
Headquarters
15 L of C Signals
Cen Med Forces

14 Oct 43     

My Very Own Darling,

I wrote quite a long ordinary letter to you last night, Dear, in answer to a letter from you which had been on the way for exactly two months, and so exhausted most of my news.  I thought this air letter would be welcome as well, however, & so here goes.

Not having much to write about I must as an almost last resort talk about the weather!!  The last few days have seen a great change & by teatime each day one is beginning to shiver a little bit & wish that the authorities would hurry up & give us our Battle Dress back.  I think we are going to change our uniforms in several days.

 I am afraid, Darling, that you might not get these air letters from me quite so frequently, as my private store of them has now been used up & unless I can “acquire” by fair means or foul, another supply, I shall have to rely on my ration of one per week which means that Mother and you will have to take turns.

Much as I dislike the things – and I know you do Dear – I shall have to resort to airgraphs when I haven’t air letters!  A nuisance to say the least, isn’t it?

 I normally write a couple of ordinary letters a week though, so you should still hear from me regularly

 A few hours later

Since I started writing this I’ve been out to the flicks.  The last show starts at 7 p.m. & a couple of the lads persuaded me to go.  It wasn’t a bad show & only broke down three times, which isn’t bad for the local cinema.  The best part of the evening, however, was the walk back to the billet.  It is full moon tonight Darling, and is a simply grand evening, the sort of night which makes me lonely for you.  If you had been by my side tonight my happiness would have been complete.  Imagine the scene, the moon shining out of an almost cloudless sky on to the white buildings of the town & as I walked the Mediterranean stretched out to the horizon, its usual azure blueness turned almost to molten silver in the moon’s pale gleam.  Yes, these Mediterranean nights have got something.  

But as I said at the top of the page, always there is someone missing from the scene – you.  I am missing you terribly, Darling, and the gap in my life seems to get greater as the weeks go by.  How I wish that the coming months would simply fly by so that we could be together again.  Ah me!  Chasing the end of the rainbow again!!  Never mind so long as we are successful in the end.

Until that happy day, keep my love, Stan  xxxx

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