Dad's 11th Birthday Post Card

This is an interesting post card with quite a history. It was sent to dad on his 11th birthday which was on the 11th March 1942. The front of the post card reads:

To Greet Your Birthday
This is to send you a Birthday wish.
A wish that the years may bring
just heaps and heaps of happy returns.
And the best of everything.

The post card is yellowing very badly now but has been kept for many years in an old envelope with lots of photographs and this is where I am returning it now.


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The rear of the post card reads:
To Ronnie wishing you many happy returns of the day.
Hoping you live to see many more happy birthdays.
From Auntie Jennie & Uncle Fred
xxxxx xxxxx xxxx
& Freddie

The post card was addressed to:
Master Ronald Fry
To 5 Fern Villas
Flinton Street
Hessle Road
Hull

The post mark clearly shows:
Hull Yorkshire
9.30am
11 Mar
42


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Mum tells me there's a story behind this post card. When it was originally written dad's Auntie Jennie and Uncle Fred forgot to add the name of their son Freddie to the bottom of the card. Freddie had a mental illness and reacted very badly to this omission. As a result he threw himself from the Porter Street Bridge and committed suicide. The post card shows "& Freddie" added to the bottom in pencil where the rest of the card is written in ink. Apparently after Freddie's death his name was added to this card in memory of him.