Alone

 

Postmarked Field Post Office, dated 21 February 1943.

Pourquoi toujours dormir seul?
Why still sleeping on my own?

Sent by my father, on active service, four months after he and my mother were married. The message reads "Have nearly given up all hope of receiving any mail". Poor soul. My mother kept almost all his letters from the war years.

I didn't know he'd been in France, but of course he may not have been.