Postcard, date unclear, to Mr and Mrs
Mahony, living at South Shore, Blackpool:
In camp here with City Battalion. I hope
this voice from the dead will not give you
a shock but it must have been a case of
both waiting to receive a line. With best
wishes, Private I Knowles
This is part of a cardboard box full of Gilbert Tasker Mahony’s postcards and
documents found by David Jackson in the cellar when he moved into 4 Avondale
Mount, Shipley in 1979.
Most of them are headed OAS (On Active Service) and stamped in red 'Passed by
Censor). The censor crossed out the name of the towns in most cases but we have
managed to decipher them or work them out.
The majority were written to his wife, Lil, or daughter Aileen, but some were to his
mother-in-law, Mrs Collins and one to his sister-in-law.
My thanks to David for given me access to this fascinating archive
More WW1 documents in the Gilbert Tasker Mahony collection
(Click on the card to see location and a bigger image)
Gilbert Tasker Mahony
A patriotic postcard sent in
September 1918 to Lilian
Mahony from ‘Mary’ giving
details of her train times.
Valuable Service Notice 29 September 1918
Undated:
Welcome from Milan to British Troops
MENUS
Menus from staff instructors’
mess dinner
10 September 1917
Menu from dinner in Merville on 23 December 1917
with signatures of those attending on the back
British Expeditionary Force Christmas Card 1917
