15 May 1938

Dear Jeanny:

Well it won't be long now till you are going to Central High School. The weather here is grand. Wish you were here - I'd take you to London to see the Queen ha! ha! Yesterday I flew up and down the last coast looking down at the sea and beautiful girls on the sands. Little did they think that they had a secret admirer above in the clouds!

Now that summer is here we get wonderful cumulous clouds which are those big, fluffy ones you get in Canada not. They are great fun. Diving on them at great speed - looping around them or chasing a fellow officer all over cloud land - flying up and down the valleys and round the hills.

"Such childish pastimes for Britain's fighting forces." Still, most of our time is taken up with serious work which is not fun but real hard, unremitting labour.

The "Yorkshire Post" - a newspaper here sent one of their representatives to take a picture of 41 Squadron and Billy is flying one of the Furies on patrol - a flight of six aeroplanes. As soon as I get a picture I'll send it home.

Who is your latest boy friend? Has Bill Edwards been over to see you lately? He writes me quite often and is an amusing writer.

My last wrist watch has stopped. It just can't stand Battle Climbs to six miles. If mother gets a headache going to Banff 8,000 feet - how can my watch stand 30 ,000 feet in less than 10 minutes!!

I hope Ronny is too much of a bother these days, especially with the boy friends.

Give the family my love:

Your loving brother
Bill