Letters to Mrs R. H. Caldwell, from her son Robert Douglas Caldwell and other soldiers, 1917-1919 - Page 22
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[Page 22]
29.7.17
very large & fine city, Birmingham is also a very large city but one can't judge these places passing them in the train, but we could see the fields & hedges which enclose the fields & I dont think I have ever seen the likes before. On Monday morning we had fairly fine weather so I think the aeroplanes took advantage of it as there were numbers flying about all the while, at one time I counted no less than eight in the air at once, occasionally one would fly low down over us and they do go at a pace, they are mostly biplanes, also there was a large dirigible balloon up all day. I suppose it was for observation. From our hut looking out across green fields we can see the old Roman Stone Henge that you read about in history. It is about 2 miles away and looks very large even