Featured Lest we Forget

Not really antique related but I thought I would share this with you before I take it off for framing. I found this letter to be quite brutal and impersonal but I suppose that was how it was in 1914.

 

Seems very cold to me that this type of information would be delivered by a form letter!

 

Yes, especially from the Naval accounts department!!

 

They also got a bronze death plaque.

 

Thank you Davey! Feel a little bit better seeing those other letters. But why did it come from the accounts department?

 

Let me suppose that these are the people who were not involved in active duty, so were given this task. While I agree it is hard to received the news this way, when 44,000 British sailors died I think it was the quickest way to inform when human resources were strained. It is sad, though. He looks so young.

 

It may seem cold, but it would be proof that the person is presumed dead. Particularly if there were a wife or assets.

And as Kiko said the most efficient way to get the news to the families.
Also, things were what they were. Not sugar coated like today.

 

I trust the Canadians treated him well......at least I'd hope so !!

 

In ones heart and soul they are NEVER FORGOTTEN !!! .. NEVER. Joy.

 

That was sad..Long lost Heroes.

 

So many dead in WWI. Anything but a form letter would have been very time consuming.

 

I have my dads. He was in the merchant navy on the North Atlantic convoys. It is a sad thing to have as you feel that is all his life boiled down to. A piece of cardboard.