Thursday, 25 December 2014

Merry Christmas!

 Postcard “The Dining Room on Christmas Day”, 2nd Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment in Bermuda,  1911 [Z550/19/34/10]

Friday 25th December 1914 (Luton): Private G Doughty of 14 Ebenezer Street, Luton, now serving with A Company of the 1st Battalion of the Bedfordshire Regiment, has sent good wishes to his former colleagues through the agency of his wife and the Luton News:

To My Workmates of the Diamond Foundry
“I wish all my workmates a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year. I am very pleased to say I have pulled through up to now, after two months in the firing line, and am hoping to see you all again.”

Source: Luton News 24th December 1914

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