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Dear Nan,
A little Souvenir from France. No doubt by the time I will see you you will grow up to be a girl.
Anyhow it is much better to be tall and thin than fat and lazy.
Your
Syd

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Passed the censor 2470 at "Field Post Office 6" and countersigned by H. Aldrich. The Field Post office 6 was located at 6 Div Railhead (this card has 7 xx/18th over the FPO stamp) and these are the general locations and dates of FPO 6:
Ypres area - 22.7.15 to Aug 1915
Somme area - Sept 1916 to March 1918
Lys - April 1918
Somme - Sept to Oct 1918
Bohain - 1.11.18 to 14.11.18
Cologne area - Dec 1918 to 1.8.19
so this card was sent from the Lys area on April, 1918.

It's a testament to the efficiency of the Field Post offices and the Royal Mail that these hastily scrawled post cards made it home...even the ones sent to "blighty" with the name obliterated by the censor.

More info here.

Syd sent another card to the same address in April; A0087.