{"id":4214,"date":"2022-10-18T22:29:47","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T21:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/SSLHG\/?page_id=4214"},"modified":"2022-12-14T16:51:48","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T16:51:48","slug":"postcards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/southshieldslocalhistorygroup.co.uk\/index.php\/people\/postcards\/","title":{"rendered":"Postcards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>World War One<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are postcards from the Somme in 1916 and 1917 from a Shields lad to his wife and 3 sons in Adelaide Street, Laygate.&nbsp; It is very surprising that these got through the censor!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"381\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/southshieldslocalhistorygroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Postcards-WW1-Elsy-Jim-Kaiser.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southshieldslocalhistorygroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Postcards-WW1-Elsy-Jim-Kaiser.jpg 381w, https:\/\/southshieldslocalhistorygroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Postcards-WW1-Elsy-Jim-Kaiser-191x300.jpg 191w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 381px) 100vw, 381px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"380\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/southshieldslocalhistorygroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Postcards-WW1-Elsy-Jim-Butterfly.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southshieldslocalhistorygroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Postcards-WW1-Elsy-Jim-Butterfly.jpg 380w, https:\/\/southshieldslocalhistorygroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Postcards-WW1-Elsy-Jim-Butterfly-190x300.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBefore and after the bombardment of Albert\u201d 27\/6\/1916<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/southshieldslocalhistorygroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Postcards-WW1-Elsy-Jim-Albert-Before.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southshieldslocalhistorygroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Postcards-WW1-Elsy-Jim-Albert-Before.jpg 600w, https:\/\/southshieldslocalhistorygroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Postcards-WW1-Elsy-Jim-Albert-Before-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Albert before<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"386\" src=\"https:\/\/southshieldslocalhistorygroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Postcards-WW1-Elsy-Jim-Albert-After.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southshieldslocalhistorygroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Postcards-WW1-Elsy-Jim-Albert-After.jpg 600w, https:\/\/southshieldslocalhistorygroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Postcards-WW1-Elsy-Jim-Albert-After-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Albert after<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is the pit we fought for in a hand to hand fight we took it alright and it is working now dear wife and sons\u201d 27\/12\/1916<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/southshieldslocalhistorygroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Postcards-WW1-Elsy-Jim-Pit.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southshieldslocalhistorygroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Postcards-WW1-Elsy-Jim-Pit.jpg 600w, https:\/\/southshieldslocalhistorygroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Postcards-WW1-Elsy-Jim-Pit-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Bethune Pit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cThis is the canal we had to swim through after a seven day\u2019s bombardment of the Somme, and it was awful cold, and it was a good job I could swim.&nbsp; So I got off lucky wife only a few barbed wire scratches\u201d 3\/1\/1917<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"387\" src=\"https:\/\/southshieldslocalhistorygroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Postcards-WW1-Elsy-Jim-Barbed-Wire.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southshieldslocalhistorygroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Postcards-WW1-Elsy-Jim-Barbed-Wire.jpg 600w, https:\/\/southshieldslocalhistorygroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Postcards-WW1-Elsy-Jim-Barbed-Wire-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Canal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It looks like the postcard location has been scratched out by the censor!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Postcards: <br>D McLaren<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World War One These are postcards from the Somme in 1916 and 1917 from a Shields lad to his wife and 3 sons in Adelaide Street, Laygate.&nbsp; It is very surprising that these got through the censor! \u201cBefore and after the bombardment of Albert\u201d 27\/6\/1916 \u201cThis is the pit we fought for in a hand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":268,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4214","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southshieldslocalhistorygroup.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southshieldslocalhistorygroup.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southshieldslocalhistorygroup.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southshieldslocalhistorygroup.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southshieldslocalhistorygroup.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4214"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/southshieldslocalhistorygroup.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7671,"href":"https:\/\/southshieldslocalhistorygroup.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4214\/revisions\/7671"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southshieldslocalhistorygroup.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southshieldslocalhistorygroup.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}