Embroidered Post Card - "To My dear Daughter"

Social History (Museum of St Albans)

1997.5042

Embroidered Post Card bearing the motto "To My Dear Daughter" with floral motif. These were a popular type of card sent home by troops on active service during First World War. Message on reverse reads: "from Daddy to Eadey". Sent home from France by Private William John Fairy, a soldier from St Albans who later died, after being fatally wounded at Ypres in September 1917. One of a series of 12 similar items. Fairy also sent an identical card to his other daughter (1997.5048)

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Amy Cooke

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22/06/2006