Stan and Grace

2364226 Sergt. S. Bristow Headquarters 15 L of C Signals Cen Med Forces 13 July 44                                                                            173. My Own Precious Darling, The 13 th of the month has been far from an unlucky day as far as I am concerned, for to-day the postman presented me with two letters from you!   Fancy two in one day!   Its ages since that happened.   So as you can guess, I am right on top of the world today. Your description of your meanderings round the fair city of Edinburgh brought back some pleasant memories of my visit there in May ’39. I was quite...

Edinburgh 11-7-44                                                                                (148) My Own Darling, Have not received any more letters from you since I last wrote you, though I suppose my mail will be waiting for me at home. I wrote you a sea-letter and posted it on the 9 th though I suppose you will not receive it for a couple of months. Yesterday was not a very nice day.   It was cold and wet so we ended up at the pictures.   We saw Walt Disney’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”.   I had not seen it before and thoroughly enjoyed it. Nan says that I must f...

2364226 Sergt. S. Bristow Headquarters 15 L of C Signals Cen Med Forces 10 Jul 44                                                                                        172. My Very Own Darling, Your first despatch from the “Scottish front” arrived this morning, Darling.   Two letters in two days.   It isn’t necessary to tell you how happy it made me. Yes, I should imagine that travelling in England now has become worse even than it was when I was using the trains.   Your description of the Doncaster-York-Newcastle run recalled a good...

2364226 Sergt. S. Bristow Headquarters 15 L of C Signals Cen Med Forces 9 Jul 44                                                                                         171. My Very Own Precious Darling, Today has been quite an eventful Sunday, for I have had no less than three letters, one from you, one from Vera and one from home.   Not bad going eh?   And just the right sort of thing to start the day off well! In your letter you describe the Sunday atmosphere of Grimethorpe and of No. 56 and it made me long to be there, sitting wit...

56 Brierley Road Grimethorpe Nr Barnsley                                                                                         147. 8.7.44 My Own Darling, I received an air-letter from you this morning dated June 28 th .  It had been forwarded on to me from the G.H.N.  In it you said that I would probably have started my holiday by the time it arrived. Yes – I have been on holiday a week now and it has simply flown by. I was going to write you an air-letter but found that I had run out of them and all the post-offices close for the half-day up here on Saturday. So yo...

2364226 Sergt. S. Bristow Headquarters, 15 L of C Signals Cen Med Forces                                                                  170. 7 Jul 44 My Very Own Darling, I’ve just come in from the cinema after having seen Leslie Howard’s film “Pimpernel Smith”.   It’s 10.30 p.m. but so hot that I know it will take me a long time to get off to sleep, even if I try.   I’m not going to try, however, I’ll write this letter to you and then read a book.   I shall just drop off to sleep then. When I say that today has been a good day you will automatically guess that I have had a letter from you.   At the time you wrote it you were in a flur...

Edinburgh                                                                  (146) 6.7.44 My Very Own Darling, I could not let the sixth pass without writing a letter to you, though it is almost impossible as these Scotch people talk almost as much as the Welsh.   They have all been most kind to us and we have had excellent food.   In fact they hardly know there is a war on this part of the world.   Of course, Nan is an excellent cook which makes a lot of difference. Last night we went to a dance. We quite enjoyed it but the tunes they played were far from modern.   In fact some of them went back to ten years ago.   We thought they might brea...