21st Birthday Card
Title
21st Birthday Card
Description
A birthday card with many signatures and comments on the front and reverse.
Coverage
Language
Type
Format
One printed card with handwritten annotations
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Publisher
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Contributor
Identifier
MSheppardIE2035826-220221-010001, MSheppardIE2035826-220221-010002
Transcription
Best Wishes Kathie
Best Wishes Les
The best that life can give you,
The things that you most prize,
Your hopes and your desires,
Today may you realise.
Best Wishes E. Wareing
Grogs the [indecipherable word] and Cobber George
Lots of Luck and happiness in your future life from one Londoner to another
All the best Peter
Best of Luck.
Lyn. Richards
GET EM AIRBORNE?
"BUT OF COURSE"
[indecipherable word]
Best Wishes to my favourite R.T. Operator Doug (R.C.A.F.)
What Ho you lovely chap [indecipherable name]
[page break]
I'll bet you be
a 'bad type' now.
Love David x x x
Congratulations
"Inky"
May all your
troubles be
little ones
Sgt L A Potter
Norwich
Nfk
N.Z. 428158
F/SGT S[missing letters]
NEW [missing words]
Congratulations
on attaining
your majority
Remember me now
Remember me ever
Remember we met
At [indecipherable word] together.
Lots of Luck Cobber
Love Doreen. x x x
All the very best in
Your future [indecipherable words]
To my [indecipherable words]
[indecipherable words]
[indecipherable words]
[indecipherable words]
x x x
All the Best from
One of [indecipherable word] Band.
Harry
May you always
have as good a time as [indecipherable words]
Jerry x x x
Best Wishes Tom.
Lots of Luck Bill.
Best of luck and
a very happy
Marriage from
one of the
Gremlins
Bob.
Wacko Inky
A Bonser Sheila
Dizzy [indecipherable name]
To my dear Pal Inky
wishing her all the
luck in the world.
Hazel.
Happy Landings
Inky - Love Joy
[four indecipherable words]
To the girl who always listened
Uncle Vic.
Best Wishes Les
The best that life can give you,
The things that you most prize,
Your hopes and your desires,
Today may you realise.
Best Wishes E. Wareing
Grogs the [indecipherable word] and Cobber George
Lots of Luck and happiness in your future life from one Londoner to another
All the best Peter
Best of Luck.
Lyn. Richards
GET EM AIRBORNE?
"BUT OF COURSE"
[indecipherable word]
Best Wishes to my favourite R.T. Operator Doug (R.C.A.F.)
What Ho you lovely chap [indecipherable name]
[page break]
I'll bet you be
a 'bad type' now.
Love David x x x
Congratulations
"Inky"
May all your
troubles be
little ones
Sgt L A Potter
Norwich
Nfk
N.Z. 428158
F/SGT S[missing letters]
NEW [missing words]
Congratulations
on attaining
your majority
Remember me now
Remember me ever
Remember we met
At [indecipherable word] together.
Lots of Luck Cobber
Love Doreen. x x x
All the very best in
Your future [indecipherable words]
To my [indecipherable words]
[indecipherable words]
[indecipherable words]
[indecipherable words]
x x x
All the Best from
One of [indecipherable word] Band.
Harry
May you always
have as good a time as [indecipherable words]
Jerry x x x
Best Wishes Tom.
Lots of Luck Bill.
Best of luck and
a very happy
Marriage from
one of the
Gremlins
Bob.
Wacko Inky
A Bonser Sheila
Dizzy [indecipherable name]
To my dear Pal Inky
wishing her all the
luck in the world.
Hazel.
Happy Landings
Inky - Love Joy
[four indecipherable words]
To the girl who always listened
Uncle Vic.
Collection
Citation
“21st Birthday Card,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed February 18, 2026, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/collections/document/38591.