Postcard from John Valentine to his wife Ursula

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Title

Postcard from John Valentine to his wife Ursula

Description

Number 34. He writes thanking her for the photos and comments on his daughter’s progress. Mentions it is his Dutch colleagues 3rd anniversary of their departure from home when country was invaded.

Date

1943-05-10

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Format

Two sided handwritten postcard

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Identifier

EValentineJRMValentineUM430510

Transcription

Kreigsgefangenenpost
Postkarte
[stamp]
[stamp]
MRS U. M. VALENTINE
Emfangsort: TENTERDEN GROVE
Strasse: HENDON, LONDON
N.W4
Land: ENGLAND
Absender:
Vor- und Zuname:
Sgt John Valentine
Gefangenennummer: 450
Lager-Bezeichnung:
M.-Stammlager Luft 3
Deutschland (Germany)
[page break]
NUMBER 34.
Kriegsgefangenenlager
Datum: 10th May 1943.
Your 3 envelopes containing 9 splendid photos arrived today & have given me an enormous amount of pleasure. My sincerest & warmest thanks to Ba for her handiwork & to you for sending them. I positively love the one of you “grinning hugely”. It is an excellent likeness & I treasure it greatly. I love all the others too. What a teriffic [sic] change in Frances since I saw her last – still crawling & very helpless. I wonder how much she can talk nowadays. Today, for my Dutch colleagues, is the 3rd anniversary of their departure from home, when their country was invaded. I am still completely tasteless & loathing it, of course. All my love, dearest, thanks again for photos
John.

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Citation

John Ross Mckenzie Valentine, “Postcard from John Valentine to his wife Ursula,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed March 28, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/19317.

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