In the Royal Naval Air Service

[Skipman]

In the Royal naval air service

No. i Aeroplane Squadron, B.E.F.

7th March 1915.

DEAREST MUM,

Have just got your letter of the 4th

inst. It arrived late in the day, after Dad's.

I am afraid this has missed the mail ; so won't

go off for a couple of days. I have just come

off duty ; we get three days at it on end.

There's no baccy to be procured out here, so

could you send me on a 1/2 Ib. tin of Friars'

Mixture (medium)? Am just back from a little bomb-dropping

stunt over Ostend, but keep it quiet until it

appears in the papers, or if it doesn't, allow

say a week. It was bitterly cold and took

about 1 1/2 hours. I pushed the old bus up to

8,000 ft., right above a terrific layer of clouds.

It was a most wonderful sight. I only got

occasional glimpses of the earth and sea, and

was not fired at at all in fact, I don't think I

was ever even seen.

It's quite impossible for me to let you know

my whereabouts in France, but I seem to have

a vague recollection of telling you where I was

going before I left.

Mike