{"id":3779,"date":"2024-04-24T18:42:46","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T18:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trevorgreenwood.co.uk\/tg\/?page_id=3779"},"modified":"2024-04-28T18:32:20","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T18:32:20","slug":"letter-18-11-45","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/trevorgreenwood.co.uk\/tg\/november-1945\/letter-18-11-45\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter 18.11.45"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 7925934. Sgt. Greenwood.
\nC Sqdn, 9th Battn R.T.R.
\nB.A.O.R.<\/p>\n

18.11.45<\/p>\n

Sunday
\nD -13<\/p>\n

Jessie Mine: Todays orders have confirmed the one day’s cancellation of release sailings… and my group is therefore now scheduled to leave on Dec 1st instead of Nov 30th:- so we are still at “D” -13. This is a bit of a disappointment – but it can’t be helped. I hope there won’t be any more cancellations, but you never can tell at this time of the year: especially with the Channel being so susceptible to fogs.<\/p>\n

I have spent most of this evening with Les Challinor in the photographic dept. of the mess – generally messing about and amusing ourselves: I will enclose one or two prints if they are dry by the time I have finished this letter.<\/p>\n

I have done a fair amount of reading today, Jess… and what I am reading is really nobody’s business… but as you are a special somebody, I will tell you all about it. My book is called “The Spirit of the Border” – and is by Zane Grey. Yes – it is a “western yarn” – but quite a good one and based on historical fact: it is not one of the more romantic type “western” with the usual hero and heroine coming through unscathed and leaving the countryside littered with the corpses of the ‘bad men’.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow is not a holiday, so I will be doing my usual spot of work – and it will be a spot! – followed by an hour’s lecturing in the afternoon. It is a lazy life, darling… but not the fault of any of we fellows: I suppose we have to thank the Polish D.P.s for our seemingly useless existence. They are causing very little trouble nowadays… principally due to our presence here: if we departed, it seems pretty certain that the wholesale thieving would break out as before. If I were scheduled to remain here for much longer, I would certainly apply for one of the many educational courses which are now being organised over here… But in view of my approaching discharge, I cannot even contemplate education – on this side of the Channel, anyhow!<\/p>\n

And now I am going to leave you again – for bed. Tomorrow… will be another day nearer to my Jess… and our little ‘pest’.<\/p>\n

Goodnight, my Darling
\nYours Always,
\nTrevy.<\/p>\n

P.S. Am enclosing the prints, including two of Les Challinor: I don’t know whether you will see any resemblance, but I always think that Les has the same type of face as Mr Teale.
\nT.<\/p>\n

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