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Ted's letter May 1943

Ted's letter to Olive May 1943

TEXT: My dearest Olive
Well Darling, here the letter as per promise no doubt you have had all the news of this affair out here, but the burning question, now is what we are all singing "Where do we go from here"?! I wonder. Well Darling I hope you are still keeping alright as far as possible, by, the time to me seems to roll round very sharp, I expect by the time you receive this letter things will be getting very near for you, but Darling I am awaiting the good news of you, also I hope you have got all that you require for the happy event, also for afterwards. Yesterday I sent you off £6.0.0 so all I want is for it to get through, to you alright. You haven't let me know if the other has arrived alright yet. All our mail has been stopped out here, for this big run through, so I suppose there be plenty when it starts coming through again. Oh, I had a grand parcel from Lil so will you thank her for it, but really Darling there is nothing I want out here, I have plenty of everything. I wish you were able to say that, eh? We really dont know what's happening here, all we hear is things are going OK. I had another big wash day yesterday. What a big B-- job that is. Well you wouldnt know your old man now, riding breeches and long boots, you tell our kid, I'm done up like a dog's dinner? I know what he will say, so dont tell me. I just had airgraph from Hilda, she tells me she met Rennie the other morning, and that Norman is still carrying on, and she thinks he has to go into hospital again. Well Darling, I think this is all for this time. Write soon. From your loving husband - Ted.
PS. Just on the go again don't know when will stop

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The Holmes / Eagle Family Bible

Front page of the Holmes Family Bible

Documents significant dates for members of the Holmes and Eagle familes

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"Bed in Summer"

"In Winter I get up at night"

IN winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light
In summer, quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.

I have to go to bed and see
The birds still hopping on the tree
Or hear the grown-up people's feet
Still going past me in the street.

And does it not seem hard to you,
When all the sky is clear and blue,
And I should like so much to play,
To have to go to bed by day?

Illustration by Jessie Wilcox Smith (1905). The poem first appeared in the anthology "A Child's Garden of Verses": the poems of Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
FOBO From Old Books - reproduced with permission

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Kettering, Northamptonshire

Kettering

Detail from the Old Ordnance Survey maps of Kettering 1900 showing the streets and site of interest mentioned in Liliam Holmes' story. Detail from Old Ordnance Survey Maps: Kettering (North) 1899 (Sheet 25.10) and Kettering (South) (Sheet 25.14) The Godfrey Edition

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Special Order of the Day

This letter was sent to all allied forces in the Mediterrean at the capitulation of the Axis army in May 1945. It is signed by Field-Marshal H.R. Alexander

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