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Date: April 2nd 1918
To
Beryl
From
Lancelot
Letter

84 Squadron R.F.C.

BEF. France.

April 2nd 1918

 

 

My dearest Beryl

 

This is to wish you many happy returns of the day and I hope it will arrive in good time: I haven’t had a chance to write a single letter since this Boche offensive started and so I feel much behindhand in the way of letter writing: We’ve been simply worked to death, flying almost all day long chiefly shooting Boche on the ground with our machine guns: I myself have fired on an average about 1000 rounds per day at the beggars besides dropping numerous 20lbs high explosive bombs amongst them: We go over very low down and shoot up all their transports on the roads and in fact anything Boche at all: there have been very anxious times during this show and in some places we’ve had our work cut out to keep him from coming right through, but I think things are much more settled now and we have Fritz well in hand.

 

We’ve moved our aerodrome further back three separate times and we are now in a large field- rather rough for an aerodrome, but we all manage to land somehow- Im billeted in a French farm house with 4 others: there was one feather-bed in the room which of course I managed to bag! We are moving into tents though in a day or two, which will be much nicer- I can’t stand the smell of the average French villa!

 

I must close now as I’ve got to fly in a few minutes. All my love to Col & Mrs. Dobbie,

Much love to yourself

Ever your loving brother

Lance

 

 

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