- Contributed byÌý
- Marian_A
- People in story:Ìý
- Arthur Allvey & his wife Gladys
- Location of story:Ìý
- Army training camps in UK & then service overseas
- Background to story:Ìý
- Army
- Article ID:Ìý
- A6862377
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 10 November 2005
Extracts from letters from Gladys (Arthur’s wife), Ethel (Gladys’s mother), and Violet (Arthur’s mother). If not otherwise indicated, the quotes are from Gladys’s letters to Arthur, or from her diaries.
1/1/42
Arthur and I had our first married New Year’s Day.
17/1/42
At about 7 o’clock Arthur left to go on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Guard duty…Arthur came to bed about 6.00. He was very tired, not having had any sleep at all during the night. He said the blankets in the guardroom were so dirty he preferred to stay up all night rather than go to bed in them..
20/1/42
This morning the snow lay very thick…Secured some suet so with my tin of casserole steak, shall be able to make Arthur a meat pudding this week.
23/2/42 (Ethel to Gladys)
I have been out this morning getting my tinned fruit. I have got loganberries, peaches, pineapple & rhubarb, don’t that make your mouth water. You know you can get rhubarb without points [= points on your ration card]. I have got four tins. I thought you would like two of them. Of course I had to go from shop to shop for them …I have no more points left…I spent about 10/- in money and two hours in time what a life.
7/3/42 (Violet to Gladys)
Thank you for your mother’s kind offer to get me fruit, but I was lucky at the LCS (co-operative) last Monday, I got a tin of peaches (large) and a small tin of pineapple, so now I’ll be satisfied. The girl at LCS told me that we could have more on our new points if they have any fruit left, but that when the present supply is gone there is to be no more. Hope you get some pears on Monday, my shop had some, but they were 2/- so I did not have any.
Extracts from letters from Gladys (Arthur’s wife), Ethel (Gladys’s mother), and Violet (Arthur’s mother). If not otherwise indicated, the quotes are from Gladys’s letters to Arthur, or from her diaries.
1/1/42
Arthur and I had our first married New Year’s Day.
17/1/42
At about 7 o’clock Arthur left to go on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Guard duty…Arthur came to bed about 6.00. He was very tired, not having had any sleep at all during the night. He said the blankets in the guardroom were so dirty he preferred to stay up all night rather than go to bed in them..
20/1/42
This morning the snow lay very thick…Secured some suet so with my tin of casserole steak, shall be able to make Arthur a meat pudding this week.
23/2/42 (Ethel to Gladys)
I have been out this morning getting my tinned fruit. I have got loganberries, peaches, pineapple & rhubarb, don’t that make your mouth water. You know you can get rhubarb without points [= points on your ration card]. I have got four tins. I thought you would like two of them. Of course I had to go from shop to shop for them …I have no more points left…I spent about 10/- in money and two hours in time what a life.
7/3/42 (Violet to Gladys)
Thank you for your mother’s kind offer to get me fruit, but I was lucky at the LCS (co-operative) last Monday, I got a tin of peaches (large) and a small tin of pineapple, so now I’ll be satisfied. The girl at LCS told me that we could have more on our new points if they have any fruit left, but that when the present supply is gone there is to be no more. Hope you get some pears on Monday, my shop had some, but they were 2/- so I did not have any.
Extracts from letters from Gladys (Arthur’s wife), Ethel (Gladys’s mother), and Violet (Arthur’s mother). If not otherwise indicated, the quotes are from Gladys’s letters to Arthur, or from her diaries.
1/1/42
Arthur and I had our first married New Year’s Day.
17/1/42
At about 7 o’clock Arthur left to go on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Guard duty…Arthur came to bed about 6.00. He was very tired, not having had any sleep at all during the night. He said the blankets in the guardroom were so dirty he preferred to stay up all night rather than go to bed in them..
20/1/42
This morning the snow lay very thick…Secured some suet so with my tin of casserole steak, shall be able to make Arthur a meat pudding this week.
23/2/42 (Ethel to Gladys)
I have been out this morning getting my tinned fruit. I have got loganberries, peaches, pineapple & rhubarb, don’t that make your mouth water. You know you can get rhubarb without points [= points on your ration card]. I have got four tins. I thought you would like two of them. Of course I had to go from shop to shop for them …I have no more points left…I spent about 10/- in money and two hours in time what a life.
7/3/42 (Violet to Gladys)
Thank you for your mother’s kind offer to get me fruit, but I was lucky at the LCS (co-operative) last Monday, I got a tin of peaches (large) and a small tin of pineapple, so now I’ll be satisfied. The girl at LCS told me that we could have more on our new points if they have any fruit left, but that when the present supply is gone there is to be no more. Hope you get some pears on Monday, my shop had some, but they were 2/- so I did not have any.
Extracts from letters from Gladys (Arthur’s wife), Ethel (Gladys’s mother), and Violet (Arthur’s mother). If not otherwise indicated, the quotes are from Gladys’s letters to Arthur, or from her diaries.
1/1/42
Arthur and I had our first married New Year’s Day.
17/1/42
At about 7 o’clock Arthur left to go on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Guard duty…Arthur came to bed about 6.00. He was very tired, not having had any sleep at all during the night. He said the blankets in the guardroom were so dirty he preferred to stay up all night rather than go to bed in them..
20/1/42
This morning the snow lay very thick…Secured some suet so with my tin of casserole steak, shall be able to make Arthur a meat pudding this week.
23/2/42 (Ethel to Gladys)
I have been out this morning getting my tinned fruit. I have got loganberries, peaches, pineapple & rhubarb, don’t that make your mouth water. You know you can get rhubarb without points [= points on your ration card]. I have got four tins. I thought you would like two of them. Of course I had to go from shop to shop for them …I have no more points left…I spent about 10/- in money and two hours in time what a life.
7/3/42 (Violet to Gladys)
Thank you for your mother’s kind offer to get me fruit, but I was lucky at the LCS (co-operative) last Monday, I got a tin of peaches (large) and a small tin of pineapple, so now I’ll be satisfied. The girl at LCS told me that we could have more on our new points if they have any fruit left, but that when the present supply is gone there is to be no more. Hope you get some pears on Monday, my shop had some, but they were 2/- so I did not have any.
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