Date: 1946-01-19

Epistolary Signature: Audio, Envelope

Brand: Army Welfare Services, N.A.A.F.I, Voices of the Forces

Copyright:

Provenance:
Source: Thomas Y. Levin Collection
URL:
Title: UK Voices of the Forces
ID: 006

Medium:
Medium: Record
RPM: 78
Sides:
Material:
Diameter:
Needle:
Duration: 67

Recording:
Place:
General Context: Military, Private

Sender:
Sender: David Taylor, man, soldier
Country:
Sender Keywords: Husband, Man, Soldier

Recipient:
Recipient: Clarice Taylor, Graham; Radcliffe, Lancashire, UK
Country: England
Sender Keywords: Child, Spouse

Content:
Primary Language: English
Summary: Side 1: Christmas; speaker misses listener; soldier life; wants to be a civilian again; home front; thanks; coming home in 1946
Transcript:
[David Taylor:] Hello darling, this is David. Hello Graham, this is Papa. I hope you are both well and have had a Happy Christmas. My thoughts have been with you. It is impossible to put into words just how much I have missed you both, my home, and all its associations, not only since I came to this country, but also every day since I joined the army. It seems such an age since I was a carefree civilian living a quiet, but very happy and contented life, and the return of those days cannot be too soon. Clarice, you have done a wonderful job on the home front, and never was thank-you so richly deserved or more sincerely given. In it is included Graham's thanks for the countless things you have done and are always doing for him. May God bless you both and our home, and may we be reunited in the early days of 1946.

Text:

VOICES OF THE FORCES FROM REGT. NO.___ NAME___ TO___ PLAY WITH NEEDLE LEFT UNDSITURBED AFTER HAVING PLAYED AN ORDINARY RECORD. IF RECORD SLIPS PIN TO TURNTABLE ORGANISED BY N-A-A-F-I -- E-N-S-A - AND ARMY WELFARE.

Type: Printed
Location: Record

 

14429238 L/SGT TAYLOR D Mrs TAYLOR

Type: Hand written
Location: Record

 

VOICES OF THE FORCES FROM REGT. NO.___ NAME___ TO___ PLAY WITH NEEDLE LEFT UNDSITURBED AFTER HAVING PLAYED AN ORDINARY RECORD. IF RECORD SLIPS PIN TO TURNTABLE ORGANISED BY N-A-A-F-I -- E-N-S-A - AND ARMY WELFARE.

Type: Printed
Location: Record

 

VOICES of ROUND THE WORLD the FORCES POSTAL RECORD Organised by ARMY WELFARE N.A.A.F.I. and E.N.S.A. To Not to be opened before____

Type: Printed
Location: Envelope

 

Mrs. D. Taylor 328A Stand Lane, Radcliffe, Lancashire U. K.

Type: Hand written
Location: Envelope