Monday, 6 March, 1944 - Stan's Letter

2364226,
Sergt. S. Bristow,
Headquarters,
15 L of C Signals,
Cen Med Forces                                                                           120(?)

6 Mar 44

My Very Own Darling,

The last couple of days seem to have gone very pleasantly.  All I seem to have done is welcome the Post N.C.O. and read your letters.  I’ve had no less than six in this period.  Three of them were very nice sea letters, the last but one month old, and three air mails.  So I feel on the top of the world today.

It is really heaven Darling to know that I have you and all your love.  It is forever one bright spot however gloomy the world seems at various times.  Perhaps when I get home I shall be able to tell you how much you have meant to me during our absence.  At the moment written words are useless.  There is one thing certain and that is I will show you just how much you mean to me when I do eventually get home – and as you can guess, it will be a matter of “deeds not words!!”  Oh Darling!  If only I could hold you in my arms again and know that I had never to leave you.  Our happiness would be really complete, don’t you think so?

You say that we shall not realise all our cherished dreams without putting in some hard work.  With you by my side, Angel, I feel confident that we can do anything if we put our minds to it, and anyway, working to attain something which we have both spent so many hours planning and dreaming of will be a really thrilling adventure.

One cannot envisage what the conditions will be like at home after all this lot is over, but I know we are both working hard to give our partnership a good send off.  All the many things which you are collecting Darling from time to time will be the biggest help.  I wish I was able to give you a helping hand.  The only thing I am in a position to collect at the moment Darling, I think is coppers for the oak chest and I can assure you that I am not slacking in that direction.

If our lives together continue in the happy manner in which they have proceeded during the past two years, our partnership should be a really model one, what do you say?  Ah me!  I get a kick out of thinking about it all.  Actually doing it should be just heaven.

Someone once told me that the girl one loved most was always the most annoying!!  I began to wonder whether that was true when I read one letter.  You don’t half like to tease me, don’t you?  You tell me half of something and get me really intrigued and then you don’t tell me any more.

To read your reactions to having witnessed a birth for the first time would have been a piece of news of the primary importance, but of course, you just dangle the news in front of my nose and just as I am getting interested you snatch it away.

Do tell me what you thought about it, Darling!!!  Has the experience firmly convinced you that you don’t want any children, or did you decide it wasn’t as ‘orrible as you had hitherto believed?

Don’t tease me any more!  Just be a really good girl and tell me in your next letter.  Ten to one this plea will not prevent you from keeping me guessing, but still .... I’ve tried!!!

I wrote a short letter to you the other night and enclosed a couple of snaps which (as I told you in my last air letter I believe) we had taken at the Unit canteen the other night.

Tonight is the 6^th and that means yet another month has rolled by, another 28 days nearer to our reunion.  How I wish we could really tell when that happy day would be.  If we knew, there is so much we could plan, isn‘t there Darling?

However, all we can do at the moment is carry on looking towards the horizon and being as patient as it is possible to be.  There’ll be an end to it all one of these days.

That’s all I’ve room for now.  I’ll write again tomorrow, Darling.  Meanwhile, keep all my love.  Yours Stan  xxxxxxxxxxxx

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