Rene Critchley to her husband Norman "VICTORY at last! Oh my darling what that word means to us." Sent from: North Staffordshire Date of letter: 8 May 1945
Bill Hind to his brother Ted "Just a line to let you know I am alive and kicking in this dump" Sent from: Ceylon
A J R Adam to his daughter "I have been trying to buy cloth to send to you to make jodphurs" Sent from: Lucknow, India Date of letter: 8 February 1945
Dot Butler to Tom Butler "He is always talking about when Daddy comes home and I always get him to look at your photo in the kitchen when he talks of his Daddy so that he won't forget you." Sent from: Boars Hill Oxfordshire Date of letter: 1 February 1941
Frank Pilsworth to his son "Mam tells me that you sit up with her at night now so you must be getting a big lad, well keep smiling and look after Mam till I come home again" Sent from: Italy and Austria
Bill Davies to Zellah Davies (later Powell) "I expect by now our new baby has arrived and I am wondering whether it is a boy or girl." Sent from: Tabarka, Tunisia
Pte. Wilfred George Johnson to Mrs N.J Taulbut "I shall never be able to repay you for looking after her as you have" Sent from: North Africa Date of letter: 10 January 1945
Driver John Worsfold to his young son "I am sending you this little dog, and in return you must take special care of your Mummy until I get home. Because I love her so much." Sent from: Italy
A woman whose children were sent to my great grandmother during the war "I expect it is almost as hard for you to have strange children put on to you as it is for them having to leave us" Sent from: Walton on the Naze? Date of letter: 8 September 1939
Ted Woods to Jean Woods "I have been through a terrible chapter in my life and I would sooner be dead than go through it again." Sent from: Frontstalag 221, France
Lieut W.F. Copelin to Ann Copelin "Thank you for doing your ABC on Mummy's letter. You are a clever girl." Date of letter: 26 November 1943
Morrit Senior to his son Ernest "Although we are far apart in the flesh, we shall be with you in spirit at Christmas." Sent from: Upper Hopton, West Yorkshire Date of letter: 22 November 1944
Frederick Charles Ramsay to his daughter Valerie "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." Sent from: Belgium
Lily Sutton to her son Frederick Hemmings "Your letter received this dinner time, a shock to hear you had joined up." Sent from: Lytham St Annes, Lancashire Date of letter: 11 September 1939
Irene Rawson to George Henry Powis "I have just sent you a telegram with the news you have another son and can't he yell!" Sent from: Bournemouth Date of letter: 24 February 1945
Frederick Burgess to his son "I am still looking for 'Hitler' but he keeps running away, soon I will catch him up and you know what I will do to him." Sent from: Italy Date of letter: 1 December 1943
Geoffrey Oliver to his baby son Guy "Never try and appease a bully, it just doesn't work." Sent from: Italy Date of letter: 1 February 1945
WJH Daniels to his children Brian and Beryl "I wish so much that this day I were with you both & Mummy, still we have those lovely days to come & we are happy indeed that this day is with us" Date of letter: 8 May 1945
Bill Jackson to Gladys Jackson "Well Glad darling what does it feel like to be a Mummy, what do you say pet, a load off your tummy and a greater load on your mind, never mind sweetheart I hope to be home before long and be able to give you a helping hand," Sent from: Nanyuki, Kenya Date of letter: 10 August 1945
Anne and Gaie Haydon to Major Henry Haydon "You will be pleased to hear I am a good girl in school and I am trying very hard with my lessons" Sent from: Carshalton, Surrey
My father’s letter to me, Eirwen John "I'm glad that you are making Mummy happy, always do this my little sweetheart because she is the most wonderful woman in the world." Date of letter: 18 February 1945
Fred Chapman to Vi Chapman "I was grateful for those four hours that we were fortunate to have together" Sent from: Greenwich Date of letter: 1 June 1944
A fairy story by Jupp Dernbach Mayen to Mireille Dernbach "This is the story for your birthday. I am so terribly sorry that I can't be with you and mummy." Sent from: Huyton, Liverpool Date of letter: 3 September 1940
Rita Reed to her husband Capt E John Reed "The houses were all lit up, with their wirelesses in the open windows, playing the same musical programme, and decorated with fairy lights in V-shapes, etc, between flags. . It really was pretty, and I thought Rosemary might remember it for always." Sent from: Barnes, London S.W.13
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