A Young Officer’s Letters Home in WW2
I’ve been going through a cache of letters that my
father, Michael, wrote to his mother and father, mainly during the middle years
of WW2 (1942-3). Michael was a career army officer, in the Royal Engineers. He was
born in 1916; so was in his mid to late 20s in the early 1940s.
As will appear, Michael was keen to be “in action”,
but was frustrated in that ambition for much of the War – but not in the end.
