Letters of David Francis Smith, January-June 1941 - Part 9

 

VX25593.

WO" D.F. Smith

8th Divisional Signals

A.I.F.

Malaya

16.5.41
 

No. 26.
VX25593.

WO: D.F. Smith

8^th Divisional Signals

A.I.F.

Malaya

20.5.41

 

My Darling Rene,

Just a few lines to let you know

that I am O.K, & still in the land of the living,

hope this finds you & all at home in the best

of health.

Missed out on a letter from you

on Saturday, maybe I'll pick up one or two

today.

Things are still the same here with

nothing startling has happened since I last wrote, &

seeing I haven't a letter to answer this one is

going to be a bit of a struggle.

Had my first game of Rugby on Sunday

& I might add its my last, its certainly pretty rough,

& knowing nothing about the rules didnt help any.

Noel & I went to the pictures on 

Sunday night, saw William Powell & Myrna Loy,

in "Love me Again", the name of it didnt sound

so hot but it was a real good comedy & I

enjoyed it very much, was only the one picture.

The first half being all short, one of them about

 

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will ever get it. He would certainly have plenty

to see on that leave he had would be more

interesting than here.

They had a fair bit of trouble here this

last few days with the Tamil Labour in the

plantations, started to look a bit serious. 3 or 4

of them were killed, seems to be all finished now

& most of them have gone back to work.

Well Sweetheart I'm afraid I cant find

any news to tell you for the present, so I'd

better clue up.

"Cheerio"

With all my Love & Kisses.

Frank xxxxxxx

Regards to Ma & Pa

Noel, Bob, & Robbie send their regards.

 

 

ON ACTIVE SERVICE

Mrs. D.F. Smith

c/o Mrs. H. Watts

Symonds St.

Queenscliff

Victoria

Australia

PASSED BY CENSOR

No. 2780

C.C.Johnstone

 

V.X. 25593. WO" D.F. Smith

8^th Divisional Signals

A.I.F.

Malaya

25.5.41

 

No. 29.

VX 25593.

W.O." D.F. Smith.

8^th Divisional Signals

A.I.F.

Malaya.

1-6-41

My Darling Rene,

Received your most welcome letter this

afternoon, glad to hear that you & all at home are O.K.

I'm getting along fairly well, but its still very

hot, rather envy you people sitting up to the fire

these days, havnt had any rain for four or five days

now, they reckon there is a drought on.

Had a good day out yesterday

went down to a seaside to play another unit

football, had a good swim in the morning, &

started the match about 4 PM, it was still pretty

hot then too, we were beaten by five goals, they

were easily the best side that we have met, as

usual I never got anymore than half a dozen

kicks, but didnt collect any knocks either, so that

was something. They have very nice barracks,

a picture show 6 night a week, tennis courts &

get plenty of swimming. Met quite a few chaps

we knew on the boat coming over, also one

joker I knew in Geelong, he used to work

for Bull & Owens.

 

 

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Re that friend of mine going south, think now

that you very likely wont hear from him, I dont

know what happened, but I'll tell you I'm terribly

disappointed that he didnt get in touch with you,

believe he met Bob's wife in Melbourne, & she thought

he was rather a good scout.

We dont seem to be in the race to spend

a few days at that cousin of Robbies, it appears that

if you didnt go to Singapore, you dont get any leave

at all. Quite a few of the troops have been to Singapore

on leave & have had a rather decent time, they say that

goods there are very cheap down that way, so it looks

the obvious place to buy anything.

Received your letter No. 31 this afternoon,

will be answering it Thursday cant find

any news to tell you for the present.

"Cheerio"

With all my Love & Kisses

Frank xxxxxx

Regards to all at home.

C.C.Johnstone

-4 JUNE 1941

 

 

No 34

[* Many thanks for the

orders from you & Mabel,

tell x her I'll be very

pleased to have a few

pots on her. *]

VX 25593.

WO." D.F. Smith.

8^th Divisional Signals

A.I.F.

Malaya

23.6.41.

My Darling Rene,

Received your most welcome letter on

Saturday, pleased to hear that you & all at home are

in the best of health

We are still getting ^on fairly well here,

went & had a look at the races on Saturday, it

was a good afternoon, & was a decent outing, didnt

try to back any winners. had a few sweep tickets

with the usual result.

A chap took me out on Sunday

to have a look over a tin dredge, was very interesting

& seems to be quite a fair bit in it, I fell for the 

usual stunt, trying to lift a bucket of tin, it packs

in pretty tight. He took me to the first show of

the pictures at night, "This thing called Love", it dosnt

sound so hot, but it was a good show, got a few laughs

out of it.

The war has taken a decent turn

this time, will be interesting to see what the next

few weeks or so bring.

So you are getting a fair share of storms

 

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that cash, the Commercial Bank should be able

to give you a draft, Canteen orders wouldnt be any

good at all, as they make you cut them out.

Seemed a queer coincidence you saying that

the show you say the other night was "The Letter",

well maybe you'll remember, some people entertained

us the other night, as we were passing the goal

this chap told us he would tell us a story,

that picture you say was it, it was centered

around this particular district, same goal, it appears

that the Author came up here for a holiday, &

wrote a book around the case, this chap told us

that they had since produced the picture, it seemed

funny you striking it; would be about the same

time as I heard about it, hoped you liked our

scenery, afraid I'm getting a little tired of it,

Swan Bay is more in my line

Was sorry when I saw those cuttings where

those boys were missing, was hoping that it was only

a rumour.

Well Sweetheart I cant find any more news

to tell you at present, will answer this letter I

just received on Thursday.

I do miss you every bit as much as you

say you do me, all I have to look forward to is getting

back

"Cheerio"

With all my Love & Kisses

Frank xxxxxxxx

Regards to all at home.

C.C.J.

 

Mrs. D.F. Smith

c/o Mrs. H. Watts

Symonds St

Queenscliff

VICTORIA

AUSTRALIA

 

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