Just nineteen – the words for winter and war are not easy

The 'in-box' at the Post Office (Photograph: Royal Mail courtesy of British Postal Museum & Archive)

The ‘in-box’ at the Post Office
(Photograph: Royal Mail courtesy of British Postal Museum & Archive)

Charlie was on active service and his little sister waited for news in Africa.   It was 1915 and nearly Christmas.

The letter below was what went into the envelope eventually, and the Post Office then made sure that it arrived where it was meant to.

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