My brother and I went through some old documents and photos that my Mum had hoarded for many years and among them were two Christmas Cards that my grandad, after whom I was named, had sent home from the front in 1917. He was a medical orderly and he would have been 23 years old that Christmas.
Considering these are 105 years old they're in remarkable condition. The first card is embroidered with what seems to be fine wool.
Thanks for sharing those. They are remarkable family heirlooms.
My granddad from the states was younger than yours. He mailed home a copy of the four-page 45th Division News from Sicily in the summer of 1943, which included this cartoon by Bill Mauldin.
My granddad was killed in action at Salerno a couple of weeks later at age 22. My dad was born just a few months earlier, after my granddad had already shipped out, so they never met each other.
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