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My Mother, Kitty Carew was a teenager living in Evercreech,Somerset when she met Liverpudlian Private John Shaw of the 7th Battalion the Green Howards, who was stationed nearby. Amongst my late grandmother’s treasures I found an a ‘Military Airgraph’ he sent from Egypt on May 12. 1942. It reads.:
Dear Mrs Carew,
I am sending this air.graph because they don’t take as long to reach you as letter. I have just received your letter it must have been mislaid at my last address because[it] has been so long in arriving here and have been moved about such a lot recently. I was surprised to hear Kit had joined up, but have had a few letters recently, and she seems settled, also likes her job. In Kit’s last letter she mentioned about going to my home for her leave and seemed to have enjoyed her stay there. Well Mrs Carew I hope you are keeping well, also Audrey and Dad. You seem to have had some cold weather this year in England. It is just the opposite out here, but have got used to it now. I am keeping O.K. but hoping this war won’t last long. Will have to close now, Cheerio Your truly John.

[ The airgraph looks like a miniture photocopy]

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