oggbashan
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I've been sorting through a collection of postcards and found this postcard of a beach scene in Pas De Calais, France. Square Brackets around my comments.
Army Post Office stamped 21 August 1919 and "Passed By Censor" to:
The Misses Fanshawe, Barrington, Cambridgeshire, England.
From: Women's Legion Base, APO [Army Post Office] S38 France.
"Just getting used to the sandy dust over here - but it really is frightful. At present am on a car that doesn't do very much & don't like it. The bathing is tophole and we get tennis too. Kind regards to all.
Sincerely yours F Rippon. W.L." [Women's Legion].
[The postcard had to be censored because although the Armistice had been reached in November 1918, technically we were still at war with Germany in August 1919.
Note that she is "on a car". That meant she was using a car as an ambulance and driving it - a very rare female skill in 1919.]
I wonder if she thought that someone would read her words in 2010?
Og
Army Post Office stamped 21 August 1919 and "Passed By Censor" to:
The Misses Fanshawe, Barrington, Cambridgeshire, England.
From: Women's Legion Base, APO [Army Post Office] S38 France.
"Just getting used to the sandy dust over here - but it really is frightful. At present am on a car that doesn't do very much & don't like it. The bathing is tophole and we get tennis too. Kind regards to all.
Sincerely yours F Rippon. W.L." [Women's Legion].
[The postcard had to be censored because although the Armistice had been reached in November 1918, technically we were still at war with Germany in August 1919.
Note that she is "on a car". That meant she was using a car as an ambulance and driving it - a very rare female skill in 1919.]
I wonder if she thought that someone would read her words in 2010?
Og
