| Description | These letters are signed 'Buck' or 'Buch'. Most are undated, but are written from H.M.S. Lady Evelyn, at the Royal Navy base at Larne, near Belfast. The only letter which is dated is postmarked London, May 1918. The letters give few details about 'Buch's' daily life, but /2 mentions that he has applied for foreign service and /3 contains the comment 'I'm having a damned easy time compared with most people in France; & probably will continue to do so till the rough weather sets in'.
/1 also contains information about Cynthia's life, enquiring whether she has begun working on the land yet [as a land girl], and implies that she will find ploughing hard work
For a further letter from 'Buck', see OMN/A/2/22/69 |