Mum died in 2022 aged 94 & I found a box containing letters from our Dad who died in 1990. In the box with her will & funeral instructions was this coming home letter. He seems so wonderfully optimistic, and eager to come back from Italy.
Darling
Couldn’t find any writing paper; can’t find any words; long day it seems, awful long; I love you so dearly, that’s really what I want to say; I adore you.
I consider every minute away from you a complete waste of time. Time is my worst enemy, ‘cos he keeps me away from you: you’re a wonderful person Hazel Greenfield of Ulceby Lincs, England the world Europe etc.
Leave Mother the address of the studio & I’ll write them posthaste, couldn’t very well do it tonight ‘cos I’m just saying a few words to you instead. And just a few more
xxx I love you xxx
xxx Monti xxxxxxxxx
He was a Gunner in 2nd Medium Regt RA Lincolnshire, also posted to Gibraltar defending against air & sea,
also driving troop trucks in Italy.
