Gallery Title
Gallery Title
postcard
Accession Number GRSRM : 1984.6.16d
Description
A colour tinted postcard depicting a uniformed soldier, sitting on a rock and leaning on a large military drum writing a letter home. It has the words 'To My Dear One' and verse.' Reverse written with message in pencil and sent to Miss M Watling of East Dereham, from her brother Walter, postmarked 1917. Part of the Valentine's Series.
Creation Date
1917
Measurements
86 mm
Department
Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse
Inscription
Addressed, on right of postcard:
Miss M Watling, No 4. Philos Yd, Church St, East Dereham, Norfolk
Postmarked [??] Felixstowe, Suffolk Dated 25 Au IV
Text: on left of postcard (written upside down)
Dear Sister and Father, just a p.c to let you know, I am alright. Hope you are the same. Have you our Bob [??] anymore about me as you said that you was sending me that letter on and that’s why I have been waiting. Let me know if you hear from May give my best love to Bob and Mary and to all. Hope I shall hear from you soon, from Brother Walter xxxx
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