Secret Duties of a Signals Interceptor by Jenny Nater

Author:Jenny Nater [Nater, Jenny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Military, World War II, Biography & Autobiography, Aviation
ISBN: 9781473887145
Google: tYsTDgAAQBAJ
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Published: 2016-11-30T01:42:53+00:00

Chapter 6

Heavy News and a Move

5 December

Mrs Davis has written me and told me that her husband said in his letter that he saw ‘The First Lieutenant [Tony Lovell], CO, Coxswain and Trained Man killed’ before he left the boat. But if that is true who gave the order to abandon ship? And how did Tony get onto a float and be without a scratch when he was found?. … Oh Rick what am I to tell your dear mother?. … I shall not write any more of these until I have hope again, I am terrified.

Jenny

10/12/42

I don’t know what to say. Doc says Davis is probably a little deranged. Your people rang up that same day, and asked me to come as your kit had arrived at last. Well – I got back here this a.m., and darling it has been terrible to see your uniforms and things. No letters are returned, no negatives or photographs of Itchenor, which I need so badly for enlargements and prints – and Rick, we found your Kapok suit! Why hadn’t you got it on? Oh God I must find out from Mark what you were wearing, and if you had a life jacket apart from the suit. … Oh the sight and smell of your clothes, the great-coat that we used to wrap around the both of us. You must be alive. I cannot, dare not, and will not, imagine anything else. This is more terrible than anything I could have imagined – to see the words ‘EAE Cornish deceased’ was not possible – is not true.

My all, always J

16/12/42

Oh my love, it seems so hard, there is so much doubt and fear to contend with. As our love seemed to grow daily when we saw one another every day, so it still does. An all engulfing, aching thing it is now. I went to W today to deliver some things. Just as I was going to leave, the door opened and Paul Berthon walked in, with Mark and Chris Dreyer. I had a horrible moment – I felt myself go pale and gasped and stammered, and then I thought I was going to burst into tears so I couldn’t say a word. I took a terrific pull at myself and hope I managed to pass it off. One has no idea how one will react to that sort of shock until it comes. The last time I saw Paul was when he was here with you. … I went over to R [Ramsgate] yesterday. You were quite right, there is absolutely nowhere to stay. I spent the night with the WRNS. I had a short talk with Lieutenant Commander Wilson, and he, when I told him I believed you to be alive – said quietly and thoughtfully, that he would not be at all surprised. … This dread!

My heart to you, J

20/12/42

I spent the 17th and night at ‘26’. They were very cheerful after my news of your second safety suit, and your father, though quiet, was as good as ever to me.

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