On Active Service. 1920 Postcard from Jerusalem

[tiktok]

Hi,

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

Tiktok

[Gadget]

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' 

[Jamjar]

Here is information on the tomb on the post card: http://www.sacred-destinations.com/israel/bethlehem-rachels-tomb.htm

Jamjar

[Geoff-E]

Yours vs

vs = very sincerely ?

[rosie99]

see other post 
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,594979.msg4452662.html#msg4452662

[Gadget]

see other post 
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

[rosie99]

see other post 
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     

I have even tried to see if I could work out who C.E.G.G. was.

[Gadget]

I started thinking of names beginning with C last night but I fell asleep 

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

[Gadget]

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