15 August 1937

Dear Mother:

This is Sunday morning and the rest of our boys are arriving one by one from Netheravon by air. Today it is cold and wet and not a nice time for them to arrive in good old Cambridgeshire.

I have just had breakfast and have started a coal fire to thaw out my room. Yesterday afternoon Thompson and I went to Holbeach, but it rained so hard we cam back to Sutton Bridge and saw Bing Crosby in "Pennies from Heaven."

Don't be impatient about my class picture. I have it at Wittering, so will send it to you in September. I has all names, etc. so will be interesting to you and me in years to come.

I have just seen some water colour reproductions of Furies diving and zooming amongst the clouds, which are very life-like. I'd like to obtain some for 1608.

Ouch! I nearly broke my ear drums. Four Audax from 11 F.T.S. just flew over flat out and broke over the aerodrome.

I certainly love this Service. You can't beat the Royal Air Force. Discipline and personnel make this Service the finest in the world. Two of the seven chaps from Netheravon who are on single-seater fighters are Canadians. One Thom from Edmonton and Coe from B.C. They are staying on with us here at Sutton Bridge.

The aerodrome here is very small, but Wittering has never failed to get in first time, but several Netheravon have had to "go around" again, much to their discomfiture.

I have not heard from Mrs. Culbertson for some time, but will probably get a letter soon.

By now Jean will have started school again, and she will like it a great deal, especially if she goes to Central High School. But it will be rather said if she has to stay on at Sunalta, I must say.

I hope you save my letters, as they will be very interesting to me later on. What I only touch on in some letters will probably have a great significance to myself, especially my early letters.

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