Postcard from John Valentine to his daughter Frances

Postcard from John Valentine to his daughter Frances

He hopes she has been lucky with Christmas presents, as she is a very good girl. He mentions that she has grown up a lot since he left and is longing to see her.

1944-11-26

Two sided handwritten postcard

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Kriegsgefangenenlager
Datum: 26th Nov 1944
My Dearest Frances: This will be too late to reach you for Christmas but I hope you had a lovely time and were lucky enough to receive lots of presents from Father Christmas He usually rewards good girls & Mother tells me that you are a very good one. I hope she is a very good Mother, too, I had plenty of nice presents as well. You must be a big girl nowadays & will shortly be going to school I suppose. I am longing to see you & to know how you have changed from the little baby I left behind so long ago. Give my love to Mother, Do look after her, won’t you – She is so nice. from Father.
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Kriegsgfandenenpost
Postkarte
[postmark] PASSED P.W.7754 [/postmark]
[postmark] GEPRUFT 45 [/postmark]
An Miss Fances VALENTINE
FELMERSHAM
Empfangsort: BOTTRELLS LANE
CHARLFONT ST GILES
StraBe: BUCKS
Land: ENGLAND
Landesteil (Provinz usw.)
Gebuhrenfrei!
Absender:
Vor- und Zuname: Sgt J.R.M. VALENTINE
Gefangenennummer: 450
Lager-Bezeichnung: M.-Stammlager [deleted] 357 [/deleted] [inserted] Luft III [/inserted]
Deutschland (Allemagne)
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