H.M.S. MALAYA.
c/o G.P.O.
Monday, 12th
Dear Mother-
Thanks ever so much for the parcels of clothes – I enclose 2/- for the postage.
I hear Col Conway Gordon has gone to hospital with an enlarged heart & Mrs Conway is awfully worried about him naturally- He’s been ordered a month’s complete rest & quite likely he won’t go back to Cromarty again. Rather sickening for them – as they liked it up there so much.
Went and lunched with Tommy Drew yesterday – I had’nt seen him since I came back -so we had a goodish long talk about things.
Bestest love to you all-
from your ever loving son
Paul
It’s frustrating that we don’t know more about the Conway-Gordons who were related to Paul’s fiancée Nancy Swan.
Nancy’s father was Colonel Charles Arthur Swan C.M.G., M.A., J.P., and her mother was Ethel, only daughter of Colonel F.I. Conway-Gordon. Her brother was brother was Major Charles Francis Trollope Swan MC who was born in 1887 and her sister Marjorie was born in 1886.
Nancy herself was born in 1895, making Nancy 22 in 1917 to Paul’s 28.