Wednesday, 28 June, 1944

Letter addressed to the Nurses’ Home but forwarded to 3 Briar Bank Terrace, Edinburgh 11

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Sergt. S. Bristow
Headquarters
15 L of C Signals
Cen Med Forces                                                                           167.

28 Jun 44

My Very Own Darling,

I suppose that by the time you receive this you will have started your holiday & will no doubt be at Grimethorpe.

As I lay on the silvery sand of our swimming beach this afternoon in the sunlight I was thinking how perfectly heavenly it would have been if you could have shipped over to Italy and stayed with me for a month.

I must have dreamed about it for quite a long time Darling, but my dreaming thoughts were broken in a very abrupt manner when tea time came & one of the blokes I had with me threw a heap of wet cold sand at me & yelled “Tea time Sarge!”

Still, my Dear, the dream was fun while it lasted .....

There’s a little white and red villa which overlooks the beach and whose sandy path wends its way down to the water's edge.  It would have been an ideal place for the two of us to have stayed.  The moon is almost full and we could have taken advantage of these warm nights to have gone moonlight bathing – a grand pastime which we must certainly try together in the future, & then sitting by the side of the sea, the two of us all alone, we could have listened to the music of the waves & have watched the silvery patterns made by the moon’s rays – but wishful thinking gets nowhere fast doesn’t it?

Never mind, Angel, one of these days perhaps it will be like that.  Anyway it shows you how much I am thinking of you and how really much I need you Darling to make my life a happy and complete one.

I haven’t had a letter from you since I last wrote a couple of days ago & so I haven’t got anything fresh to write to you about.  Possibly there’ll be one in the post tomorrow.  Hope so, Dear, for it is my one real delight in life now – receiving your letters.

Like yourself they mean such a lot to me Darling.  Can’t imagine what life would be without them.

The war’s going quite well, isn’t it and I am pleased to hear on the wireless today that the casualties are comparatively light in France when one considers the magnitude of the action.

Well, Darling, space compels me once again to have to say “Good Night”.  How I wish it was one of those good nights which used to terminate when a tired but happy girl used to kick an equally tired but happy boy into the cold morning air of Grimey!

All my love Dearest, Stan  xxxx

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