24.3.17

Field

Dear Mother

Just a line. Many thanks for yours. I am so glad Jim is safe. Topher & I are quite alright.

Send me some chocolate plain Fortnum & Mason or Cadbury Vanila (not milk) little plain chunks too lots & often.

Love to all

Dick

Jim was on the Tyndareus which had struck a mine off Cape Agulhas, South Africa, on the 6th of February.

• http://www.nam.ac.uk/online-collection/detail.php?acc=2001-07-31-1
• http://www.familyletters.co.uk/6-feb-1917-jim-to-sheina/