"I think we shall soon be home now, most of the Germans would be glad to give in now, and I don't expect we shall let them give in until we are ready, they have pleased themselves too much."
Discovered whilst sorting out the house of Valerie and her husband, our grandparents’, house.
In the group photo, Frederick Ramsay is sitting down with the dog at the bottom.
A number of things have been discovered a diary from 1944 from our auntie Mabs who drove ambulances, other WW2 letters, plenty of photos, medals, BEF images, WW1 images, and medals etc, other objects.
Transcript:
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17 March 45
My darling chick
I guess it is getting close to your birthday now, as I cannot get a nice card I am again wishing you a very happy birthday and it will be gratifying to feel that anyway your next birthday will be in peace time and we shall have a nice party, eh!
I haven't got your letter to hand and I remember quite well that I was very pleased at such an excellently written letter and I believe to that you took much more care with your handwriting. It was a very nice letter dear. Let me see! I couldn't quite understand one 'tiny bit of it' - you have passed your morse test yes but what was the other thing you passed? It looked like [unclear] if I remember and I couldn't quite understand that bit.
I have just had a letter from Irene and I've answered it right away. Fancy the puppy eating all those things of Irene's, it's a wonder he didn't die isn't it.
Well darling? I think we shall soon be home now. Most of the Germans will be glad to give in now, but I don't expect we shall let them give in until we are ready. They have pleased themselves too much. A young soldier who has only just come from the 'front' told me yesterday that the Germans are very artful. when the tommies captured their places they are all Dutchmen, Poles, Belgians or anything else but Germans. Also they say because they're afraid so now when the British Canadian American or any Allied soldiers come onto their land they say "Me no German - me Dutch!" so you see that they have changed their tune now haven't they? And they are getting punished for the things they did to others. The Belgian people love the British tommies in fact they love England and are very proud to have been liberated by the allies. A lot of them speak a little English, of course it used to be a very popular holiday country for English people before the war but after the war I'm certain they will make all British people exceedingly welcome and will be very very friendly.
Please excuse scribble. I'm trying to write a number of letters tonight if possible.
Loads of love, darling
Daddy xxxxxxxxxx
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