Has anyone got something similar to this postcard I own?

It was stored in a little brass coloured box with my Granda's WWI medals.
It's a postcard from the King and Queen given to POW's in Germany in 1914

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/2488/grandajoessmallli3.jpg

http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/6907/grandajoeswordssmallhz2.jpg

Great stuff, hope you look after your Granda's stuff, to often stuff like this ends up on ebay were some people are only intrested in a quick buck.

click on the link below for more info

Xmas Gift (http://www.kinnethmont.co.uk/1914-1918_files/xmas-box-1914.htm)

Oh you don't know how happy your post has made me.

That is the very box my Granda was given and that I now have in my hand. I recently donated the postcard to our local Museum as they had an example of the box but not the postcard.

Thank you you have made my Christmas.:PDT_Xtremez_42:

That's a beautiful postcard Gerry - - shall I say thanks for posting it ! ha,ha :D

Oh you don't know how happy your post has made me.

That is the very box my Granda was given and that I now have in my hand. I recently donated the postcard to our local Museum as they had an example of the box but not the postcard.

Thank you you have made my Christmas.:PDT_Xtremez_42:

Great you donating it to your local museum - excellent :handclap:

That's a beautiful postcard Gerry - - shall I say thanks for posting it ! ha,ha :D

Even Royal Mail aren't that bad when a postcard written in 1914 only gets delivered in 2007

Great to see, Gerry! I love this old stuff back then! :PDT11

I have my Grandad's medals from the First World War and photographs of him when he was with the Lancashire Yeomanry and Lancashire Hussars in Kirkby Lonsdale and Rufford in 1914, then out in Salonika, Greece (now Thessalonika) with the Lancashire Fusiliers in 1917-1918 where the British Expeditionary Force was fighting the Turks and Bulgarians.

Chris

Can I also add that when Gerry and I took the photo to the museum, the curator was so pleased. Gerry was asked to do a write up about the photo which will also be displayed in the museum. There is quite a story which goes with that photo. It is going to press in Ireland.
Perhaps I can persuade Gerry to tell you the story ?

My Granda was a POW during WWI and he received his tin with chocolate in it as he returned home after the war. He was carried of the hospital ship on a stretcher and handed a clipboard with something to sign. He said you signed for everything in the army so he just signed and lay back.

The form he signed was his discharge back to civilian life in a "good state of health". He died a few years afterwards from his injuries but my Granny had to raise their three sons with no pension from the army as he had been signed of "fit".

Justice?