Clair & Rose

RCAF OVERSEAS

01 FEB 1944

Dear Rose and All

Well I finally get to have 10 days off now, and I have been in London for three days. I am staying at the Canadian Legion Club, boy it is really swell, .60 cents a day with breakfast, you can even buy Cokes here, its wonderful.

I am ashamed of myself, I went out with some of the boys last night, and we had to sample the liquor in every pub we could find in the dark. We found one with a bunch of Yanks and Canadians in it; they had lots of rum there. The Nav. rolled me halfway home, at some point during the evening I run into a lamppost, and the sidewalk hit me. I have a very sore nose, it is very embarrassing, and everybody wants to know what the other guy looks like. Of course Smoky had to make it worse by saying that some dames threw a glass at me, and when I ducked I hit the floor and the glass hit Mac. As things would be, Mac has a sore nose too, Mac claims we walked into a side of a building. Personally I don’t know. Tonight I am staying in or I should say I have stayed in. So when I finish this I will go down to the canteen and have some lunch, take a bath, and go to bed.

I stay in the same room as my WAG. He has come in plastered to the earn for three nights in a row. When he went out tonight, he told me to pay for his bed tomorrow morning cause he didn’t expect to be home by then.

I seen a couple of good shows in London here, “The Angels Sing” and “The Girls He Left Behind” They are both darn good.

So long for now

Love Clair