‘A Short Life in the Sky’: the story of a WWI pilot
Extract from Hearing the news, 14 December, 1916 
(NRS reference: GD486/150)
Transcript:

My Dearest

I am writing to you 
with our dear boy’s own fountain 
pen. I received one little parcel
of what was in some of his pockets
from the Naval Authorities after
the funeral & another parcel from
the Dock Police from others of
his garments. I have dried
all these melancholy memorials
& shall bring them home with
me.