A note from the Editors: Still recovering in hospital. Also interesting to note, in our modern lifestyles where so much is disposable, especially if broken, that Oliver's goggles that were smashed in his crash have been sent away to be repaired! Franked 1 SP 17 Mrs Chas. E. Pearson, Hillcrest, Lowdham, Notts. Letter No. 12 70 Squadron RFC BEF France 29.8.17 Dear Mother I have just had a letter from you dated 19.8.17 & as it’s the first I have had for a fortnight you bet I was pleased. I have also had the first instalment of papers which are very welcome indeed as I am very short of literature. I have just finished the Tale of Two Cities & am now reading Pickwick which I have often tried to read befor but never got beyond the first chapter. I am enjoying it immensely. I don’t know how Jim would recognise a Camel as I more than suspect he has never seen one as there is only one aerodrome in England where there are any. What you saw was most probably a DH5
The letters of RFC Airman 2nd Lt. Oliver Charles Pearson - written during the Great War.