An Army Marches on its Stomach - Boiled Beef & 2 Bottles of McEwans

A chatty letter making reference to the postcard written on 21 March 1940. Good to see our troops continued to get English cooking rather than any fancy French food!

22/3/40

881937 L/Bdr. Faulkner
157th HAA Regt. RA
53rd HAA Battery RA
B.E.F.

Dear Dad,

My card telling you this letter is going to be written shortly is now on its way. It was censored and went to the A.P.O. this morning.

Thanks for yours of the 14th - written the morning you had a heavy fall of snow.

So you are not going away for Easter - or at least not to Torquay. Today, Good Friday, is a perfect day and if it is anything like this in England it will be a good start for peoples holidays. It was last Easter, we were at Boscombe, wasn't it? It seems ages ago!

No, I didn't write re the Lodge Meeting. I thought about it quite a lot and would have liked to have been there to see Mr. Hunt made W.M.

Enclosed is £3 in Postal Orders which I would like you to put in the P.O. Savings Bank for me, please. With luck I hope to be able to do this from time to time. Some of the money I brought back from leave and I don't seem to be using it.

Have just had my dinner - boiled beef, potatoes and carrots and rice with currants in. Quite good. I had two bottles of English (McEwans) beer before, which gave me quite an appetite.

It was a very nice thought Jack Sulston's - the pochette case. I'm sorry I wasn't present whilst he was in the chair.

I have nothing to report re. stripes or commissions except that I've written to Mr. Heather on the latter subject. Shall let you know what he says when I get a reply. I wrote him eight pages like this when I was on guard last Sunday night.

Don't over do it with all the work; you should be taking things easier nowadays.

That's all for now but I shall be writing (to) Edie soon with any other news which comes to mind.

Shall be glad to hear how the operation on the cyst worked out. Let me know, too, if you hear from Louise.

Yours affectionately,

Frank