Postcard from John Valentine to his wife Ursula
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.
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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.
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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