Hi Kevin, I have a postcard sent to his mother embroidered by a French girl I was told. You can make out his name just, on the back. Dan. This was the unmarried one of two brothers who were killed in France in 1916, My grandfather was at home and in the pit. As my Great grandmother had lost two sons in 1916, my grandfather,s call up was delayed for two years. A bit like, Saving Private Ryan I suppose. These brothers are from my Irish side of the family. One was a tunneler, so called Scapper, and the married one served with the Ulster Fusiliers. Hope spelling is OK. Their details are on the Commonwealth War Graves Comission. William and Dan Mullins. Killed within 6 weeks of each other. A song comes to mind from Rolph Harris. Two Little Boys. There you go then. I do get choked up sometimes when I think of it. Best wishes, Maureen from the Rhondda. In a message dated 04/06/2013 15:05:32 GMT Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Hello All, I've only just arrived back from Cardiff. I spent a few hours going through my mother's photographs and was delighted to find a multitude of old photographs that I hadn't seen before. Amongst the photos I found the last page of a letter that my mother knew about and never got around to reading as her eyesight isn't great. After reading through several times I realised the writer was a grand uncle of mine who was killed in March 1918 and was buried or had his name inscribed on the memorial at Arras. My question is how important (historically ) or rare these letters are? It means everything to me and of course I will pass onto my children. Obviously this question is to researchers who would be clued into the military side of their research. My grand uncles letter isn't dated as I have the last page but he does state he is in France and that he thanked his parents for the parcel which they rarely received. He also asks about a brother of his who was ill and he would like to hear from his brother and sister in Canada. He ends with ......your loving son etc. xxxx I never thought I'd make such a discovery and to be honest I felt a touch of sadness and yet excited too. Many thanks, Kevin. -- To send to the list send to [email protected] GLAMORGAN Family History Mailing List archives etc. are at http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/WLS/GLAMORGAN.html - This site has been prepared to help you use the Glamorgan List http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~glamorgan/ - A large amount of information, and a wide variety of useful links, may be found at http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/ - The South/West Wales Lookup Exchange and Gareth's Help Pages http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~walesle/wal/AW.html and http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ukwales2/hicks.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message