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| Making sure my hair looks right the photos! |
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| Here's me with some of the band members on the move in Cyprus (i'm second left in case you can't spot me!) |
Always a good plan to keep on good terms with one's prospective in-laws!
Unfortunately, the remaining pages of the letter above have disappeared. It reads:
"Dear Mr & Mrs Gamlin,
I was very pleased to receive the letter from you the other day. I hope you have both had a nice Easter. I suppose Diane told you that I was going to Cape andreas yesterday, it was a very nice change to get out. I enjoyed the bus ride more than anything because we went up quite a few of those winding roads up the side of the mountaina and there was some very nice scenery. Diane told me you were all going to Skegness yesterday I hope you had a nice time and the weather was all right. I was surprised to hear you had snow last week. It is starting to get very warm here now - even at six oclock in the morning. I am begin ..."
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| This was Church we visited - in a village 14 miles from Cape Andreas, Cyprus The letter below survives in its entirety - this is just the first page but the transcript of the whole letter is below it.  |
"Dear Mr & Mrs Gamlin,
Believe it or not I am writing to you. I really should have written to you both weeks ago but being as I write to Diane quite regularly I suppose she lets you know how I am getting on etc. Even though I haven't written I have often thought of you.
I can see the weather is still quite bad in England, I hope it gets better before I get home. That is the only thing that helps to keep you cheerful out here, the sun. It isn't the trouble out here or anything like that that gets you down its with being confined to the barracks most of the time and there isn't a lot to do in the way of entertainment in camp. I have been out for two weekends though and that was when I went to babysit for a corporal.
On sundays its alright because I go to the MMG in the afternoon to a fellowship meeting, we have tea there and then go to the Garrison chapel at night. We usually get about 8 soldiers at the MMG and about twelve at Chapel. I think there could be a few more attend but the trouble is there is always someone on Fatigues or Duties so it is impossible for them to get. Last Sunday morning I was watching them go into the CofE service and there must have been about two hundred went in. There is always two buses full of married families that come.
That is all I have got to say for now and I hope to be seeing you both soon. May 13th is our last officially given date for us to sail. Every day we hear a new runour or something so you can imagine what it's like.
I hope you are both keeping well and I wish you all the Best.
Yours
Peter."
