A note from the Editors: Oliver still waiting to be posted, and feeling dejected as all his fellow pilots have already gone to squadrons. Franked 11 AUG 17 Mrs Chas. E. Pearson, Hillcrest, Lowdham, Notts. No1AD Officers Pool Mess France 8.8.17 Letter No 5 My dear Mother I got your first letter yesterday & was so pleased to have the photos. I thought that particular film had gone west with two others that have been lost. Arent the photos good as such considering the light in which they were taken. Ena is awful serious in hers isn’t she about the only second she looked serious that day – of course. I shall have them mounted & hang them near my bed when I get a bed of my own. I haven’t been posted yet as you see but expect to be to-night. I am very desolate as all my real friends who have been with me now on 3 moves (4 of them) have been posted. The last went to-night. He has been with me all through since Turnhouse & was a very white friend. He was an Austr
The letters of RFC Airman 2nd Lt. Oliver Charles Pearson - written during the Great War.