Sent by:P.O Ronald Edwin Austin Mandeville
Sent to:Nancy Brenda Mandeville
Sent from:HMS Glengyle
Date of letter:11 June 1941
"Time goes very quickly provided you don't think of much, dear."
The attached letter is one of many that my father wrote to his wife [my mother Nancy Brenda Mandeville] during his service on HMS Glengyle during Sept 1940 until May 1942.
My mother was living in Chichester at the time she received the letter.
Transcript:
My Own Darling Wife,
Well here is one of those things you read about in the papers, I am sending it as a curio as I promised you my dear you will see that i cannot tell you much, except of course that I am quite safe and well.
We have managed to be able to get ashore during the last couple of days and that is something these days, but still time goes very quickly provided you don't think of much, dear. I hope that you are enjoying your stay at Chichester, and that you are getting some rest, that it what you need after the other place and it will do to the nerves good darling.
Have you had any chance of doing any swimming, but I suppose is it difficult to get near the water these days, we get plenty of it, but it is too hot to be refreshing, but we enjoy it, it makes a break. It does seem ages since we used to go to Stokes Bay doesn't it, still those days will come again, sweetheart, one day. So chin up dear and all the luck in the world until then Cheerio and God Bless you dear.
All my Love & Kisses
Contributed by:Mr John Mandeville
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