Letter from Jeannie Adams to her sister Annie Adams, 27 April 1916
I hope you are all quite well. I suppose Easter was very quiet
well I was at Church twice on Sunday the Soldiers were at
the morning service there was a good many I was thinking
of Poor Johnnie he was here this time last year. I saw
Cissie Crozier and Annie and Sara on Saturday night
the asked me down to Annie on Monday, so Sara came
up for me in the afternoon and we went down round the
shore the tide was full in and it was lovely. Leonard Brown
was down he isn't bad wee chap at all I was talking
to him a good while he was telling me all the news about
home he says his Father is very ill he was in a bad way
about him he said he wanted Jimmie and Davie Crozier
to come with him I wish Jimmie had come they all went.
up to town about five they wanted me to go with them but I
did not go. I wonder did he get home. Sometimes the
Crozier are not bad. they always ask me to go with them
if the are for minnie or anywhere I think this is near about
all as its near bed time
I hope you will write me
a good long letter soon has Jimmie
the potatoes all in
yet. The weather has been
nice this last few days
was Thomas Moffatt home at
Easter I don’t think any
of the boy got any leave
the might later on. Write soon give my love
to all
I remain your
Loving Sister Jeannie
Write soon
Letter from Jeannie Adams (d. 1936), to her sister Annie Adams (1889- 1966). In this letter Jeannie thanks Annie for her recent letter and card. She writes that she attended Church twice on Easter Sunday and thought of her brother 'Poor Johnnie' who had been home 'this time last year'. Jeannie Adams, born Jane Adams, later emigrated to Auckland, New Zealand, where she died in 1936. During the Great War, her brother John Adams (1890-1971), served with the 9th (Service) Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers. He spent the winter of 1915-16 in the trenches near the Somme valley. John Adams was wounded two months before the Battle of the Somme and spent Christmas 1916 in a camp in Tipperary. After returning to the Western Front in early 1917, he was involved in the Battle of Messines and further fighting in Ypres (Passchendaele). He was seriously wounded in October 1918, a few weeks before the end of the war.
How to cite
Letters 1916, published by the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, Vienna, 2026 (https://letters1916static.github.io/letters1916-static/item__0600.html)