Series 01 Part 02: Hughes family correspondence, 3 April 1917-22 September 1918 - Page 29
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[Page 29]
R.F.C
Croydon
4 May
My own Darling Mother & Father,
It is over a week since I have written to you and I feel an awful blighter but really I've been awfully busy lately as the winter has broken at last and we are getting some lovely spring weather at last. Every other day I have to be up at 5.30 am for early flying and nearly every night this week I have been at the aerodrome till nine or half past. Still though a mail may have gone in the meantime I will try to make up for it by writing a long letter to night.
I have your dear letters of March 14th from Melbourne. I am awfully sorry I omitted to tell you all about the Casualty Clearing Station where darling old Roger died but I thought I had told you every detail. It was an English C.C.S. though there were some Australian doctors on the staff. It was a very simple place – as such places must be in a great battle – just a collection of large tents and marquees in a large field by the road. Everything was as nice and comfortable as possible and the doctors and nurses were awfully kind. It was a peaceful spot, well away from the roar of the guns, in a little green valley below the hills. I am sure that there our darling had every possible care and attention. I am a little puzzled about