LETTER
FROM MOIRA TO BILLY
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By:
PRISONER OF WAR POST (with 2 1/2d stamp)
Postmarked: 2 October
1944, Leatherhead, Surrey
To:
F/O W M Goodall, Prisoner Of War No 1939, Stalag Luft III.
From:
Mrs K M Goodall, 37 Henrys Avenue, Woodford Green, Essex.
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DATE: 30th Sept. 44
My dear Billy,
How I wish we could jump
a few months and make the time when we shall be together again
nearer - it seems such ages and yet we are lucky in comparison
with those boys who have been P's of W for 4 years. Wouldn't
it be wonderful if you were home for Christmas - can you imagine
it ! I'm off on a 10 day Domestic
Science Instructors course at Manchester on Oct. 2 which may
mean that in a short while I may change my job. I would like
a change too. Its now over 2 years since I started this work
and I'd like to think I'd done something else to help the war
effort. I've got your parcel which should have gone on Sept.
10th all ready to send - you will have heard that they are being
held up just now. Dorothy [Moira's youngest sister, Ed] is back
from Canada, unfortunately she didn't see John [John was Dorothy's
boyfriend who was killed on flying operations]. I was at a good
dance last night and met some of the first crowd of people I
was with at Marks Tey [near Chelmsford, Essex]. The dance was
about 12 miles south of here, four of us went and enjoyed it
very much. Saw Rosalind Russell in "The Beautiful Cheat"
last week, it was her usual style & good. Can you let me
know of anything you want collected in the way of clothes - or
anything else - to have ready for you when you come home. I've
been thinking of you a terrible lot recently.
All my love Moira |
Editor's
note: The original of
the above letter is in the care of the family. |
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