Letter to Elizabeth Dunlap Simpson Fadzen from her aunt and uncle,  M-S Greer, 13 March 1916

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Letter to Elizabeth Dunlap Simpson Fadzen from her aunt and uncle, M-S Greer, 13 March 1916

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bad writing 159 Donegal Rd Ble Belfast. March-10-1916. Dear Niece. In answer to your ever welcome
letter which I received and was glad to hear
from it that you and husband and family
was well as it leaves us all at present
there is not many of us now did you not
hear about Arthur being killed he was 8 years
in India He brough them home a year
last January and he got home for 5 days
and went back to Elan England to a place called
Rugby the cept them there to 16 th of March and
the landed on the Dardinelles on 25 th of
April and Arthur was killed on 28 th of
April the war office notifying us that it was
the 14 of May but we found out that it wa
was 28 April. Lizzie Dear it was it was very hard
You may gess what this war means to me
but I am thinkfull that Sammy did
not go so I have just Sammy and Herbert Maggie and boys are well the last word I
got the are at home and working away
yous are allright that your country is not
in the war there is very fine young men
about Belfast now that is not soldiers 2 2
so god knows how many will be left
there is a good many down as it is Willie Dunlop is out in France this m
year and a half and is allright so far
so some is lucky. Dear Lizzie I though
you had forgotten a bout me but I
see you have not so I am sending you
one of my photo I got taking at Xmas
I have none of Arthurs now or I would
send you one I sent Mrs Dunlop one and
she never answered it so I do not know
wheather she got it or not I must wright
and see and how is Minnie doing and
are the all well I heard about Mr and Mrs
Coope being dead and that the chirdren were
going to sell the house and go farder
back to where the brother lives it was
Mrs Ellis told me your Uncle Dave is still
living with Mrs Dunlop it is a pitty
Tom huper so ill it is very hard on
him. I suppose you have good family round you
I am sure Willy Simpson is got a big boy now I think I will close till I hear
from you with love from all your
loving Aunt and Unlce Uncle M - S Greer 3

A letter to Elizabeth Dunlap Simpson Fadzen from her aunt and uncle. Her relatives inform her of the untimely death of a their son, Arthur, who died during the Gallipoli campaign, likely during the first battle of Krithia which took place on the 28th of April 1915. They write of their painful loss and the relief that their other sons, Herbert and Sammie, are safe. Her aunt and uncle close the letter with some family tidings and enclose a photograph. A note from the collection owner: 'This is a letter that's been in our family for generations, written from relatives in Ireland to those in America during the early part of 1916. It is especially touching in the details regarding the war and the family losses suffered during it. It is a treasured part of our familial genealogical research, as it gives the context of the time so eloquently. The portrait posted with these is of the recipient, Elizabeth Dunlap Simpson Fadzen.'

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Letters 1916, published by the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, Vienna, 2026 (https://letters1916static.github.io/letters1916-static/item__2478.html)