Letter to Flying Officer Edgar John Wilcox from his sister, 22 August 1940

Letter written during the Battle of Britain to Flying Officer Edgar Wilcox, a fighter pilot on No. 72 Squadron, from his sister Jess.

In her letter to her brother Edgar, Jess writes of her pride in him being in the air force and participating in the battle, she also describes some of the air raids she has endured or observed. Edgar was killed on operations on 31 August 1940, when his Spitfire was shot down and crashed near Staplehurst, he was 23 years old.