Sent by:George Leslie Cox
Sent to:Constance Cregeen
Sent from:France
“That is the worst of France, for unless you can talk French you are lost and it is a puzzle at times if you try to carry on a conversation”
This was with a collection of letters and documents belonging to my mother. It was sent to her when she serving in The Naafi at Kinmel Park Camp, Abergele, North Wales.
The letter was from her Cousin’s husband who was serving as a Driver in The R.A.S.C. in France and was posted in March 1940.
In 1942 he was became a Prisoner of the Japanese whilst in Thailand. He survived the war but came back extremely emaciated.
Transcript:
Thursday
Many thanks for your welcome letter & am very glad to hear that you are enjoying yourself, so make the best of it while you can. I hope you are keeping well, for it will be an open air life you are leading now, & so you say it will be hard to settle down once you have got used to it. I am pleased to say I am feeling very fit, but give me England anytime. I was very glad to see the last of the snow & am looking forward to some fine weather shortly, for the present it is inclined to be wet, although we have had a few nice days. Mary tells me they are all well at home & that Mary P has started school again. I expect you will be kept busy & see plenty of new faces & of course will not be short of dates, that is the worst of France, for unless you can talk French you are lost & it is a puzzle at times if you try to carry on a conversation. I expect you will have your uniform by now & will be quite a smart lass as Dad would say. I hear Danny arrived home safely on his last trip, it is a risky life he leads at present & I bet he will be glad to see the end of this war, I know I will, & I hope it is not far off. Well Connie I think this is all the news at the moment. So Cheerio & have good time.
Kindest Regards
Contributed by:Marie Paterson
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