This letter is from my grandmother, Patricia Harvey, writing to her then boyfriend George, my grandfather. He was serving in the royal navy on board H.M.S Queen Elizabeth.
The letter is dated 7.11.45. My grandmother was serving in the WAAF at Brighton. She wrote almost daily letters, of which I have many of them.
This letter talks about her work, Australians leaving England, hopes of not being posted anywhere new. Going to the pictures, asks George about being ‘the duty ship’ and longing for his leave to be granted for Christmas.
Below is a letter writen by an Australian airman on his way back home, on Australian Red Cross Society paper, date 23rd Aug 1945, H.M. Orion AT SEA
He writes to my grandmother who was a colleague about his trip so far. The sun, P.T, and lack of alcohol. He describes arriving at Panama and not being allowed off the wharf, although the yanks put on ‘a good turn’.
He talks about making a bee line for the land where his sweetheart dwells, his future there. He mentions VJ day and the celebrations that happened in Brighton (that’s where they were based) and asks if my grandmother took part.
Below is a letter addressed to the editor of the Melbourne Herald. Dated 10.6.1944
It’s an article written about my grandmother Patricia Harvey and is titled ‘Typical English Girl’ It is a brief interview of my grandmothers life serving in the WAAF.
Found amongst my grandmother papers after she passed away.
