Extract from a letter sent home by Captain Begg. “At sea. We are getting a bit bored with all this sea time. One has to to be alert all the time operating so close to Russian and Chinese naval aair bases. I hope we shall get a spell in Japan but that is in the lap of the gods and depends on the military position in Korea……. Off again to our old stamping grounds and getting very sick of them I’m getting. The news from Korea is bad again and indeed one can’t say it’s particularly cheerful anywhere at the moment…. I have been buying the children toys – Timothy a train (electric) and Peter a car. The Japanese of course make wonderful toys very cheaply, although the finish as with anything else they make is shoddy…I visited Hiroshima a couple of days ago. I think it rather encouraging really. It doesn’t look anymore as if a bomb has been dropped on it tha any other Japanese city”
By kind permission of Peter Begg.
