30th January, 1941
ERDINGTON
2 PM
31 JAN
1941
BIRMINGHAM
Postage Revenue 2½d
Mrs Kenneth Penman
Maycot
Commonside
Keston
Kent
(1) The Same
Jan 30th 1941.
Darling One.
I’ve been meaning to write ’ere this, but we have not been allowed out, the ban being lifted this afternoon for the first time. As I have left it rather late and also, during discussion with some of the other men who have recently returned from London I have discovered that it is better not to rely on train times at all. They went to New St (LM & S) arriving about 12 pm. To catch a London train due about that time, they were…
(2)
…informed that it would be very late and were advised to try Snow Hill (G.W). It is only a few minutes away and they caught almost immediately the 9.58!! This being so I think it best that I come down to you under my own steam.
Gosh! Darling it seems ages since I wrote to you just a fortnight ago telling you the glad news, I am so looking forward to being with you again for a nice long time dearest. We shall be able to have such fun, even if we do not go out a lot. You know I love being with you, my little jewel girl in her own cottage…
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…setting, that’s why I think I’m always less unhappy when I leave you if I say goodbye to you at home. It was horrible coming back here from Manchester, and I even felt a bit more howly than usual when I left you and little Jill at Ash Lodge one Sunday.
By the time you get this letter the time will be very short darling, and then seven whole days.
Bye Bye Dingle my sweetest one,
Your own
Kenneth
Saturday 25th January, 1941
- British Commonwealth forces in East Africa intensify their offensive, pushing deeper into Italian-held Eritrea and undermining Rome’s foothold in the region.
Sunday 26th January, 1941
- Allied command refines strategic aims in North Africa, preparing operations designed to exploit recent Italian setbacks at Tobruk.
Monday 27th January, 1941
- Forward units probe Libyan defenses near Derna, laying the groundwork for imminent Allied advances.
Tuesday 28th January, 1941
- British and Indian troops secure Agordat in Eritrea, consolidating Allied strategic advantage in East Africa.
Wednesday 29th January, 1941
- Allied forces capture Derna in Libya, extending their territorial gains and deepening the crisis for Italian forces.
Thursday 30th January, 1941
- Adolf Hitler delivers a speech in Berlin, marking eight years in power and reaffirming the regime’s ideological resolve amid mounting global conflict.