Letter from L/Cpl Reginald Alfred Bailey, 13th Line of Communications Signals, British Liberation Army, to his wife Hilda, Sunday 7pm, [1944].
Mentions they are crossing to France tomorrow: ‘We are drawing pay tonight in Francs ... By the way Delo is here, you remember, used to be with me on the Canterbury Ex[ercises], he is no chicken either ... They must be short of men to send Grandpas out; that’s what the lads say.’
Associated with World War Two, North West Europe (1944-1945).
From a collection of sixty four papers and letters written by Sgt Reginald Alfred Bailey, 4th Bn The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) to Hilda Gower while serving with the 4th Bn The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) in India 1917-1919 and with the Royal Signals, 1944.