From Flanders with love . . . 92 years late http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1392289.ece In 1915, Private Walter Butler scribbled a hasty note to his fiancée from the trenches in Flanders. If she had been waiting with bated breath, she would have been disappointed. The message has just been delivered. Walter and Amy Hicks, the sweetheart he went on to marry, are both dead, but the card was put through the letter-box of their 86-year-old daughter, who still lives in the village where they grew up and spent most of their married life. The whereabouts of the card, from the time that it left the Western Front to its arrival at Joyce Hulbert’s home in Colerne, Wiltshire, will never be known. But last week it turned up in the sack of Martin Kay, the village postman. It had come from the large sorting office in Swindon.
I'm trying to resist the urge to make jokes about 92 years being quite fast for second class mail, but of course consignia wasn't around then... Beautiful story!
Haha. Indeed, that's a story to remember. I think my first thought at finding that in my mailbox is it sure looks like the mailman went through a hell of a lot to get me this. Almost looks like blood on it from the photograph.
