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War Begins
This is a postcard sent to my great-grandmother, Elizabeth Ann Constant, by a friend just days after the outbreak of the Great War.
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It reads as follows:
| Godford
Cross Awliscombe Honiton 8.30PM 9 August 1914 |
Mrs
Constant 1 Barmore Street Battersea London |
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Dear Mrs. Constant Just a P.C. to let
you know I am having a lovely time. The country is in an uproar,
they have taken horses from every farmer & the gentry too,
for the war, & the bridges are guarded with soldiers. |
A last vision of rural tranquility ~ worse was to follow, far worse!