My Dad came over for a visit today, along with the contents of the family “Brown Box”. This is a box made by my great grandfather, Joseph Curd, who was a cabinet maker, and has been the home for various family items for over a century.

Amongst the items were a number of postcards sent by my Grandfather to his young wife, Mary, when he was serving on the Front in the First World War. Fortunately, Harry survived that bloody war and I can just remember seeing him as an old man when I was a very small boy. His wife went on to live to 105.

I was quite touched by the contents of this box, the existence of which was totally unknown to me.

So here is my Grandfather’s World War I medal and a couple of the postcards. Harry talks of hearing the ‘bad news of Lord Kitchener’, and this would suggest that this card was sent in June 1916. Kitchener was Secretary for War, and perished on HMS Hampshire when it caught a German mine off the Orkney Isles that month.

The title of today’s picture is adapted from both Robert Browning and Clifford T. Ward. “Home Thoughts from Abroad” was such a beautiful song, yet the lyrics did not seem to fit.


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Cropped and Resized
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On 8 September last year; ‘Still on The Run’