Chart Road, Ashford

19 July 1915

11.45am

Ashford

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The transcribed text reads:

19-7-15

 Dear Ruth

 Just another for your collection. Hope you are in the best of health. Kind thoughts George

 Miss R. M. Backhouse,

Craigow

Cambridge

Tasmania

 

Chart Road leads to the village of Great Chart. During the War Elizabeth Quentin Strouts formed a group of volunteers The Friends of Great Chart & The Great Chart Sailors’ & Soldiers’ War Fund to ensure all the men from the village who were serving received regular letters and parcels from home.

Image courtesy of Darrienne Price

 

 

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