28th April, 1940
POSTMARK [WOLVERHAMPTON STAFFS. 6:30PM 28 APR 1941]
Mrs. KENNETH PENMAN
Maycot
12 COMMONSIDE
KESTON
KENT
No 1440260 Gnr Penman OFC
31 Orton Grove
Penn
Wolverhampton
April 28th 1941.
Darling Dingle
Just a wee note to let you know of my safe arrival and to thank you for the lovely time. I had a very nice journey down from Hatfield to Brownhills (which is only a few miles from here) with some most charming people, a man and his wife and two small sons, they are Scotch, live at Blundellsands near Liverpool and extended…
…a most cordial invitation to me to visit them if ever I was in Liverpool. They gave me lunch at a most posh hotel on the outskirts of Coventry, he, Scott was his name, gave me his card and small son wrote most detailed instructions all over it about trains and buses etc.
Margaret (Mrs Thomson) has just requested, darling, that I don’t forget to thank you for the tea and sugar, she was very grateful, I told her by the way that they were…
…a present from you and she said she hoped that it hadn’t made you short, I reassured her.
I haven’t any more news just now, darling, I will write to you again soon.
All my love.
Kenneth.
28th April, 1940
- 27th April, 1940—British forces land at Åndalsnes and Namsos in Norway, aiming to recapture Trondheim from German control.
- 28th April, 1940—Britain’s War Cabinet decides to evacuate Allied troops from Namsos and Åndalsnes due to strong German resistance and logistical challenges.