War Letters – NW Australia: 11 Aug 1943, Darwin; Pushing off to another camp

W.E. Pidgeon
C/O DPR Unit
APO Darwin

Wednesday morning
[11 Aug 1943]

Sweetheart,

Another hurried note to catch the mail as I am pushing off again down the road.  I won’t be able to catch a mail further on.  Nothing whatever has happened since I wrote you midday yesterday.  Enjoyed “Sun Valley Serenade”¹Sun Valley Serenade (1941) starring Sonja Henie, John Payne and Glenn Miller and his orchestra. See also Wikipedia once more – The skiing was extra good.  Got a real kick out of it.  Fancy that wonderful season down south going to waste.²Bill and Jess regularly went skiing at Kosciuszko with the Millions Ski Club

I’ll be pleased to be home again soon – I don’t know – I like it up here but get sick of the lack of privacy & I miss you.  Be a bit of alright if we had a house up here together.  Have managed to get enough stuff together to keep me going for some time when I return so that even if I go to New Guinea we’ll be together for a few months.  After 10 years³Wep and Jess were married August 24, 1933 you certainly get settled down into a routine existence.  After the war we’ll have to get away more together.  Make our own pleasures without the help or otherwise of others.

Fighter pilots⁴RAAF 457 Squadron (Spitfires) at Livingstone Airfield are putting on a do this week celebrating some anniversary.  Your art husband has been invited – I suppose he will feel a little poorly on the morning after.

I like to get away from the correspondents’ mess – there’s too much blasted proximity all the time.  But miss your letters like hell.  I won’t get one now until Monday next when I plan to return.

Have nothing more to add at the moment darling – will write again tonight.  This is just so’s you’ll get something to remember me by you little beaut.

Notes:

• 1
  Sun Valley Serenade (1941) starring Sonja Henie, John Payne and Glenn Miller and his orchestra. See also Wikipedia
• 2
  Bill and Jess regularly went skiing at Kosciuszko with the Millions Ski Club
• 3
  Wep and Jess were married August 24, 1933
• 4
  RAAF 457 Squadron (Spitfires) at Livingstone Airfield