Lance Corporal Robert Hill to his wife Dorothy

I have a plastic bag of letters that my father sent to my mother during the war. He numbered them and I have found letters up to no 370. I have not read them all but have found them very interesting about what he was doing day or night.

Yesterday quite by chance I read a letter dated 6 May 1945 – 80 years ago. My father was in the army, in the signals and spent a lot of time on duty but there is a lot of information on how they were moved around and families he met on leave. I am sending a copy of letter no. 166. My father never talked about the war so I’m learning about it through these letters that I found when he died.

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