Stan and Grace

G.H.N.                                                                                          (74) 3-12-43               11-45 pm My Own Darling, I have been trying to write a sea-letter to you for the last four days but have got no further than the first two lines.   Having a spare half hour to-night I decided that I would write you this air-letter and make another attempt at writing your sea-letter in the near future. I have no fresh news for you since I last wrote at the beginning of the week. ...

2364226                                                                                        83. Sergt S. Bristow Headquarters 15 L of C Signals Cen Med Forces 30 Nov 43      My Very Own Darling, It has at last caught up with me!   I am sitting here tonight with my eyes & nose simply streaming.   I have got the office cold.   I don’t suppose I can grumble, really, for I am the last out of nine to get it! Colds are so annoying, however, & make one feel quite irritable.   Some asprin & hot lemon appears...

 This is the full-size Airgraph form (11" x 8.25") that Grace wrote her message on.  The copy that Stan would receive in Italy would be 5.5" x 4". #lovestory   #lovestoryWWII    #lovestoryworldwar2   #1940slovestory   #wartimelovestory   #lovestoryinletters   #loveletters  

G.H.N.                                                                                                      (73) 26-11-43      My Very Own Darling, I am starting this in the very early hours of the morning – 2 a.m. to be precise.   I was wondering what you would be doing and thought that you would most probably be in bed.   Afterwards I remembered that your time will be ahead of ours so you will most probably have started work. I am afraid that in my spare moments – and others that are no...

2364226                                                                                                             82 Sergt S. Bristow Headquarters 15 L of C Signals Cen Med Forces 26 Nov 43              My Very Own Darling, I had another letter from you today, but it was written four or five days before the others I got two days ago. In it you mention having received my photograph, a thing I asked you about when I wrote two days ago, so ignore what I sai...

2364226 Sergt S. Bristow                                                                             81 . Headquarters 15 L of C Signals Cen Med Forces 25 Nov 43                My Very Own Darling, As I promised you in the air letter which I wrote last night & which you will no doubt have received some time ago, I have put together quite a long letter to describe to you my journey last week. Even the pages which follow do not describe to the full my experiences, but they will give you a vague idea of things as they occurred to me. Of one thing I am sure ...

2364226 Sergt S. Bristow                                                                             80. Headquarters 15 L of C Signals Cen Med Forces 24 Nov 43         My Very Own Darling, Today has been most pleasant.   Yes, you have guessed right – I’ve had lots of letters from you.   Four to be exact, one ordinary letter dated 14 Oct and three air letters covering the period 4 – 13 Nov 43. I was very sorry to read in the first air letter of your disappointment in not meeting Eric and his wife in Nottingham.   Things apparently turned out O.K., however, for I noted ...