Private J. D. Caves: The Long Journey Home
19 November 1943 Stalag VIIIA, Görlitz, Germany
My Dear Mum & Dad,
This is my first airmail to you so may arrive first. I am now a POW and Stalag VIII A is apparently my base camp, from it I will probably go to camps working. Already I have had a month in a sugar factory from which I wrote to you. Whether I will return to that command or not, I do not know. I am well and very fit to have benefited by the exercise. A twelve hour trip through this country travelling in moderate comfort was most interesting and enlightening. Red Cross food parcels are now arriving regularly. We have of course lost contact with many cobbers from Italy. No idea when we'll receive mail from you again but may be in direct communication soon - this war can't last forever.