This card, from a newly-minted soldier, sent three months
after the start of the Great War, displays the excitement, optimism and patriotism
seen at this early stage of the war.
It reads:
“Was never better. I
am off to try my stick on the Germans tomorrow instead of going to church. Will
write to you from the Front. Yrs Sincerely G E Bayliss. Been staying at
Aldershot”
Few could have imagined, at this time, the struggle that was
to follow. Those now famous battles of Verdun, the Somme and Passchendaele were
still several years in the future.
Did Mr Bayliss survive the war, I wonder? What was his
story?
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