31st July.Post Card from Frank to Siddy (Ethel's young brother).
20th August.Post Card from Frank to Ethel.
1st September.Post Card from Frank to Ethel.
26th September.Post Card from Frank to Ethel.
Newport.Post Card from Frank to Ethel.
Post Card from Edith (Ethel's sister) to Ethel
Betune
1st September.Post Card from Beat to Ethel
Writing on this card is too indistinct to read
Frank to Ethel. Both Not dated-----------------------Ethel to Frank.
Birthday Greetings to Ethel, From Edith (above) and from Florrie
( Frank's sister).
Sir Douglas Haig Com 1st Army
Frank accompanies Capt Parkes to meet Douglas Haig at Robecq, theyshake hands.
Quote from diary
5 Tues October 1915
Rather quiet day. Went to Robecq to see 6th South Staffs. I saw Sir Douglas Haig & Capt Parkes. Shake hands with him - Com. 1st Army.
[Presumably Frank must have known Capt Parkes before, who in turn introduced him to Haig, at this time he was indeed as Frank noted, Commander 1st Army; in December 1915 Haig was appointed Commander in Chief of Forces in France, replacing the sacked Sir John French. Captain Parkes may have been from the Parkes family, who ran a lock making firm in Willenhall.]
