69 LAA Reg RA
Workshop Section REME
SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMAND
14th September 1944
My Darling Janie,
Well, sweetheart, I have to attend a sort of conference thing and have to travel some distance thereto, result is I shall probably not write to you for a week. A great deal of work is being done on my Jeep so that it will be able to cover the distance.
At first I looked on it as a nuisance, coming as it did just when I was beginning to get straight again. But on second thoughts I thought it would be a pleasant change, motoring largely over roads I don’t know and to the only European town in the area. It is by way of being a health resort to which Britishers retire and has some swanky hotels. Since I came up here two years ago I haven’t ventured so far afield so I’m beginning to look forward to it.
My clerk arrived back from leave today and brought back a couple of rows of film developed and printed, mostly of scenes on the journey and they are fairly good, anyway up to scratch on my overseas collection. In addition and of greater interest to you are a couple of enlargements of myself, one in the Austin and the other in the almost-nude: frankly I don’t quite like so much skin and bone as usual. Since then, however, I’ve been out in the sun a great deal, generally stripped to the waist and I’m taking a very handsome tan to limits where few are privileged to see.
I had a letter from Evie today, a very sensible one indeed. It is apparent that your company is doing her the world of good, but for that matter you’d do me a lot more good with your presence. I also had a letter from your mother all about Anthony and a little space devoted to her buzz bomb: quite a do by all accounts, thank God they are over.
Till I see you again, till that wonderful day when I no longer have to wish you goodnight and I wake at night to hear you breathing, till then sweetheart, all my love is yours and Anthony’s.
God bless you both and grant that I may soon return.
Your,
John xxxx
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