Dec. 30.17.

With regard to your previous letter, to the best of my remembrance Norwood had been in his hut in bed with a bad cold but had got up in the morning and I know he went out and left the aerodrome, so that it would appear he went to the Field Cashier to draw some money and the Field Cashier we usually go to is about one quarter hour's walk. He came back just before lunch, about 12.30. Though I shared a tent with Norwood, when we moved into huts we were separated as he was in A. Flight and I was in B. Flight and each Flight of 5 or 6 flying officers were accommodated in a separate hut; but I was in the Mess that morning and I distinctly remember Norwood coming in from a walk. When the accident occurred I was just about to leave the ground on a patrol and I did not actually see the machine until after the accident and it was the side of the aerodrome and did not look badly smashed from where I was, but then there were some trees in the way. I never knew it was Norwood until I returned from patrol. I remember him going over to the aerodrome for aerial sentry. Drewitt has just been made Acting Flight Commander.