The letter was in my mother’s personal effects, found after she passed away in 2006.
The writer, my Grandmother was evacuated to Oxford, writing to my mother who was still in East London helping the war effort.
The letter must be after July 1941 as Dad’s POW record started on 27th July 1941. He was captured on the Isle of Crete 1st June 1941. Dad was 25 years old. He married my Mum on 12th October 1940, just prior to Embarkation.
My grandfather (mentioned in the letter as ‘your own father’) was was killed in WW1 in France in May 1915, before my mum was born.
The Bride and Groom mentioned are Ted & Eileen.
Written up the side of the letter is a note: What about Ted’s jellied eels? They were a favourite of his.
