‘A Short Life in the Sky’: the story of a WWI pilot
Censorship 
(NRS reference: GD486/98)

Transcript:

At Sea [SS ‘Huntscastle’]
22 January 1916

My Dear Mother

Safe so far. The censor allows me to say so little that 
I can merely state that the submarine danger is over though we’ve 
had a bad time looking out for them - 4 hours on & 4 hours off for 
4 days during which my diary has been altogether given up.

The weather has been fairly good, though once I was constrained to consign 
my dinner to the deep. The food is quite good & extravagantly varied 
but the cooking is not very! I have only once had well cooked potatoes.
I am not allowed to cable.

Much love to all
Douglas