Series 01 Part 02: Hughes family correspondence, 3 April 1917-22 September 1918 - Page 111
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[Page 111]
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You seem to be kept very hard at work, with very little free time, and even though you like the work it is a pity you can't get off the chain enough to keep you fresh. Of course it is wartime, & I suppose that is the answer to all grumbling of loving fathers & mothers. We see from your last letter (7th July) that your appliance for dual control makes those machines of yours fairly safe, but your explanation of it all must be at the bottom of the Mediterranean, or the Indian Ocean. Your pupil Campbell has certainly distinguished himself with a vengeance! Though you had not got word of your promotion when you wrote, it must have come along almost immediately afterwards.
Once more I prostrate myself humbly before you, & apologise for having called you a Flight Commander. I shall never do it again. In fact I strafe people horribly now, when they talk of Flight Commander in the R.F.C. With my superior knowledge now, I always tell them that such titles are vulgar things only known in the Naval Air Service.
Today we got a telegram from Collaroy – "I have got a tooth. Peter", and we wired back our congratulations at once. I can't tell you what a dear little chap he is, & how we love him for his own & his dear father's sake. Mother has been getting a box – oak lined with airtight tin – for Roger's little personal things & with a brass plaque to be let in on top of it, with Roger's name & arms, & the dates of his birth & death, all for Peter in the years to come, and she is collecting every photo & snapshot of Roger that we can find among the old negatives, for the same object. Miss Florence Rodway has just finished a replica of Roger's