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Title: On Active Service. 1920 Postcard from Jerusalem
Post by: tiktok on Saturday 28 April 12 14:51 BST (UK)
Hi,

If I scan in and post is anyone able to help with the writing on the back of a 1920 postcard?

Tiktok
Title: Re: On Active Service. 1920 Postcard from Jerusalem
Post by: Gadget on Saturday 28 April 12 15:47 BST (UK)
Hi tiktok

Do you need the message transcribed?

Image posted here:

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,594979.0.html

It reads


Jerusalem 18/6/20

Dear E
I visited this place on the way the to
Bethlehem on Whit
Sunday prior to my going to Hospital.
Hoping you are A.1.
I am
Yours vs
CEGG




gnu


Amended 13.29 as I seem to have inserted an extra 'the'  ::)
Title: Re: On Active Service. 1920 Postcard from Jerusalem
Post by: Jamjar on Sunday 29 April 12 00:39 BST (UK)
Here is information on the tomb on the post card: http://www.sacred-destinations.com/israel/bethlehem-rachels-tomb.htm

Jamjar
Title: Re: On Active Service. 1920 Postcard from Jerusalem
Post by: Geoff-E on Sunday 29 April 12 11:31 BST (UK)
Quote from: gnu on Saturday 28 April 12 15:47 BST (UK)
Yours vs

vs = very sincerely ? :)
Title: Re: On Active Service. 1920 Postcard from Jerusalem
Post by: rosie99 on Sunday 29 April 12 11:36 BST (UK)
see other post  ;D
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,594979.msg4452662.html#msg4452662
Title: Re: On Active Service. 1920 Postcard from Jerusalem
Post by: Gadget on Sunday 29 April 12 13:20 BST (UK)
Quote from: rosie99 on Sunday 29 April 12 11:36 BST (UK)
see other post  ;D
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,594979.msg4452662.html#msg4452662


I did refer to it in my original message (Reply #1) , Rosie,  but it somehow went unnoticed. It's a  pity that tiktok hasn't confirmed that the info requested on the other thread was all that she wanted,  as she was online after I posted  :-\


gnu
Title: Re: On Active Service. 1920 Postcard from Jerusalem
Post by: rosie99 on Sunday 29 April 12 13:46 BST (UK)
Quote from: gnu on Sunday 29 April 12 13:20 BST (UK)
Quote from: rosie99 on Sunday 29 April 12 11:36 BST (UK)
see other post  ;D
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,594979.msg4452662.html#msg4452662


I did refer to it in my original message (Reply #1) , Rosie,  but it somehow went unnoticed.

Even by me  ;D   ;D

I have even tried to see if I could work out who C.E.G.G. was. ::)
Title: Re: On Active Service. 1920 Postcard from Jerusalem
Post by: Gadget on Sunday 29 April 12 13:52 BST (UK)
I started thinking of names beginning with C last night but I fell asleep  ;D

I think tiktok assumed that the sender was a male but it could well be a female - maybe a nurse in a military hospital.

gnu
Title: Re: On Active Service. 1920 Postcard from Jerusalem
Post by: Gadget on Sunday 29 April 12 13:57 BST (UK)
Wonder if this is relevant:

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/americancolony/amcolony-ww1.html


gnu

added - and this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Colony,_Jerusalem
Title: Re: On Active Service. 1920 Postcard from Jerusalem
Post by: tiktok on Sunday 29 April 12 18:33 BST (UK)
Hi All, sorry for my late reply, got side tracked trying to unearth more clues, then came the weekly shop and washing......agh!!

Anyway. Yes I was pressuming the postcard was from a man but yes it could be from a woman. I suppose I have to face the fact I may never know who it was sending Edith a postcard, haven't quite given up...not just yet. I'm sure the answer lies here amongst this pile of photos! :-)

Tiktok
Title: Re: On Active Service. 1920 Postcard from Jerusalem
Post by: Billyblue on Monday 30 April 12 03:09 BST (UK)
As the recipient is called just E. and the sender C.E.G.G. you could assume that they were very friendly and that she would recognise the writing.
If the person was on active service, maybe they weren't allowed to divulge their full names??

Dawn M