John Frost
speaker
3,379 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 4d ago
John Frost’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It was a great relief to know that you were all alive anyway, even if other things have gone.
Very few people will have anything left after this war, and if we manage to get away with our lives, we can consider ourselves lucky anyway.
On Friday night I heard rumours that thousand people had been killed in Coventry and naturally disputed them, thinking it was absolutely impossible to
possible that there could be such a death toll.
On Saturday morning I got a paper.
and got the shock of my life when I saw it was all true.
As soon as finished at six thirty on Saturday, I tried to get through, but it was hopeless.
On Sunday morning I spent two hours in a telephone box, and got Coventry, but could not get in touch with you or Griffiths or anyone.
I spent two more hours on Sunday night, and still could not get through.
At last, in desperation, on Monday night, I ran Coventry Police Station, but was asked why I'd wanted the police.
I told them, and they said they would put me through to the inquiries department they'd set up at the council house.
I spoke to a mister Grant, who knew Pa, and he said there were no greens on the casualty list.
But that's sixty percent of the casualties had not yet been identified.
He said he would try and find something out about you and get you to wire me.
This, as you may imagine, did not relieve me much, especially since he told me there were quite a few casualties in the Morningside area.
Anyway, I got back to the hotel very worried, and was overjoyed to find your letter on my bed.
Grant told me that Earl Street was all in ruins.
I already knew this from pictures in the paper.
I had a letter from Basil this morning saying Pa was laid up with Lumbago, and so what with one thing and another, I decided to see my commanding officer with a view to getting forty eight hours leave to come and see you.
The application has been successful, and so I shall come home either on Saturday night or Sunday morning, but will have to be back here by Monday midday.
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