Will Hall has been in the RAF and training for a year, ‘chaffing at the bit for action’, but having just been moved from pilot to navigator training and sent to Moncton, Nova Scotia.

Mail would arrive that had been opened and re-sealed and marked by an examiner or censor handstamp. (All of the envelopes of the letters sent between my parents during the war had these stamps, showing they had been opened and read). The letters inside might have words blacked out if the censor had suspicion about what was being said.