Mothers Day - ' Dear Mother I am prisoner of war '

While a lot of us Mums will be getting cards this Sunday, imagine getting this postcard in the mail. What pain that mother must have felt reading it. I love the larconic way "Bill" tells his mother about his situation. I think once Aussie men were like this but perhaps not so much anymore.

Happily from some other letters I found with this postcard I can report that 3 years later Bill made it back to Australia still it would seem, from the tone of his letters, acting like it was all water off a ducks back... 'I have lost weight but not to worry' etc.

Both the postcard pictured above and some photos aswell as the later letters are for sale right now on ebay, you can find them by clicking here and here.