April 29th
My Dear wife a
pleasure of writing
leaves to you hope
quite safe and well as
thank God and fairing pretty fair
so far. My Dear, you must excuse
not for writing a letter as we are
in the trenches again and its a
job to get them posted but you
shall have a letter as soon as I
get the chance to send one. We are
some nice weather now but it’s a
bit cold at night but I wish I
was back home again with you
but that is no use writing that.
I’m sorry to say I don’t think it
will be over yet but we shall
all be very glad when it is. I am
sending Connie a post card I got
her quite safe to day My Dear
I had a letter from Mother will
you write and tell her I am still
all right I don’t think I can say
more tho’ so good bye for the present
from your Ever Loving husband
George Brown xxxxxxxxxxx
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This terribly poignant postcard transcribed above in the museum’s archives was found on the body of 5658 Private George Brown, 1st Battalion Hampshire Regiment who was killed in action on the Grafenstal Ridge during the Ypres Salient. The postcard, written in pencil and ready to be posted, was in a cardboard wallet in his chest pocket, together with a photograph of his wife and daughter, a couple of picture postcards and some blank postcards ready to be written. The wallet and its content have a hole through the top right where George was shot in the chest, which is why some of the text is missing at the start. He was killed on 29th April 1915- the same day he had written to say he was safe.
