It has been a day of sorting out family memorabilia and I thought this card was appropriate for this period of Remembrance.  My Great Uncle was in the Royal Army Medical Corps tending the injured in the trenches in France.  He was one of the lucky ones who returned home after the war but, like very many, never spoke of the atrocities that he had seen. .I have fond memories of him quietly tending his beautiful garden and am delighted that my Grandma gave me this.  She also gave me this which her brother sent on her birthday.

Embroidered postcards from WW1 are known as WW1 Silks and were very popular with the soldiers on the Western Front to send home.  The cards were hand embroidered on strips of silk mesh mostly produced by French and Belgian women refugees and then the finished strips were sent to factories for cutting and mounting on postcards.  Frequently they had British, French or American flags and some cards had the central portion cut as a flap so that a tiny printed greeting card could be inserted in a pocket behind the silk front and back.  This one says “Thinking of you”  Most cards do not have postage stamps as they were mailed home with no charge in Military Mail pouches.