Tuesday, 14 December, 1943 - Stan's Letter

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Sergt. S. Bristow                                                                                     88.
Headquarters
15 L of C Signals
Cen Med Forces

14 Dec 43      

11 p.m.

My Very Own Darling,

Like you, I am on night duty tonight, but I have the privilege of going to bed (or at least sleep) in the office when everything is quiet.  Before I turn in, however, I thought I would do something which perhaps you are doing at this very moment (if your patients are behaving themselves) & that is writing a letter to the person you love most in all the world.

It is two days since I last wrote to you & the letter I was waiting for then still hasn’t turned up.  Not your fault of course, Darling, but it is most annoying.  This so and so Post Office!!  I suppose it is because the Christmas mail is beginning to come in.

Waiting for your letters I find Dear is very much like waiting for leave day to come along when I was in England.  Those last few days before I used to go home to you always seemed interminable.

The best journey in the world during the past two years has been the bus journey from Doncaster to Grimethorpe when I have known you would be at the end of it to run into my arms.  The worst – those terrible journeys we both had back to our respective destinations after our most exciting leaves.  After we had left each other the world always seemed so flat, didn’t it?

Of course the journey which is going to be the most thrilling of them all is when I come home to you for the last time & there won’t be any need for anymore “goodbyes”.  I think about that day daily Darling as I suppose you do.

A most amazing thing happened today: I had a letter from my Father, containing Christmas greetings!  It’s the second I have had from him since I joined the Army, so I am thinking of preserving it.  Also included in the mail was one from your Vera, who said things were O.K. at home (I think, I mentioned this in my last letter).

The most interesting event of the past few days has been the fact that I have filled in my application for the much-discussed Africa Star.  Chest expanding exercises in preparation for its receipt are expected to start tomorrow!!  Hope the next one I receive is the Victory Medal – and that pretty quickly, too.  After all we must have this war over by next September, mustn’t we?

No more space Darling.  More tomorrow.  All my love Angel.  Yours Stan  xxxx

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