Correspondence – Page 23

Lt 9/3/42

15 Birmingham St.
Southampton

Sl. VIII, 33

Now what am I to call you? “My dear General”, but have they recognised the in-
evitable yet, with you? Or are you an amorphous
brigading . . . . . God knows: and Dawnay, but he is broad-
casting now.

So I leave the heading blank, and look again at
your letter, to see that I reply too late. You are
training now. Liddell Hart told me yours was the only
brigade in the army that could be called trained –
trained in useful work, I mean: and I expect he is cor-
recting their boyhood habits. You will never become
C.I.G.S., they say: but to become Club you have to live to
70, and look it.

Bythe: yes, last week I began there again – on the
gear to be exact; and I shall be there almost daily
for six weeks: not boat-testing, but surveying boats
under construction, and checking their engines during
their test-bed runs. Interesting work, upon which the
goodness of this batch of boats depends. If you can,
do come and look. Bythe is on the W. shore of South-
ampton water, and the yard is the British Power Boat Co.
Ask for Aircrftsmn Shaw : and if [illegible] give notice
of your coming. I will leave word that General Wavell
is to be shown all possible courtesy, which is not by
any means an unnecessary precaution, with the B.P.B.Co!

Yours
JESHAW.