Letter, Percy Hamlin from Lloyd
Production date
22 Jul 1941
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Public Domain
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Letter to Percy Hamlin from L.A.C. Lloyd Lipsett, 407 Squadron R.C.A.F. Signals, North Coates, Lincolnshire, dated July 22, 1941.
The letter begins:
"Well, you big handsome brute, how ya doin'? We are on a Canadian squadron but as yet only a few of us here...Both Tiny and I are on the flights, changing accs etc and fitting up the kites, calibrating and so on and on...Thorney Island is ok but this joint, all wooden huts, cold water, no privacy of married quarters but outside of that it's not bad.
I've lost considerable weight and can chin myself 6 times consecutively, no stops for breath either.
We've got Hudsons and pretty good kites too, plenty of room. They flew us up from Thorney in a Harrow. Boy that's the only way to travel!"
Lloyd laments the shortage of cigarettes, and unable to get any leave till September he offers to sell his warrant to Percy.
He says he has lost weight and is improving his fitness. "I'm better known around this squadron as the 'Killer', it must be my physique".
The letter begins:
"Well, you big handsome brute, how ya doin'? We are on a Canadian squadron but as yet only a few of us here...Both Tiny and I are on the flights, changing accs etc and fitting up the kites, calibrating and so on and on...Thorney Island is ok but this joint, all wooden huts, cold water, no privacy of married quarters but outside of that it's not bad.
I've lost considerable weight and can chin myself 6 times consecutively, no stops for breath either.
We've got Hudsons and pretty good kites too, plenty of room. They flew us up from Thorney in a Harrow. Boy that's the only way to travel!"
Lloyd laments the shortage of cigarettes, and unable to get any leave till September he offers to sell his warrant to Percy.
He says he has lost weight and is improving his fitness. "I'm better known around this squadron as the 'Killer', it must be my physique".
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22 Jul 1941
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Height x Width: 232 x 176mm
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1941
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Public Domain
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gifted by Jeff Chambers
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2018/9/80, 95456
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2018/9/80
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