Ward 10, Edinburgh War Hospital.

#19... Thanks Fouro , I look on it as private mail and between two people discussing if necessary private business. If I don’t have it in my possession maybe,my brother has. Know I have seen it and read. My brother however lived at home and still does so now has to pay the exorbitant rent himself. He dumped a lot of my mothers stuff, and in the process a 200 pound Burberry I had hanging in the hall, picked up with her coats etc. went to Oxfam or some charity shop. So the next day would have been a well dressed tramp somewhere in town. There are certain things I will come out with on here which may appear outspoken , but would not discuss a persons private affairs, may be all right on a ship, but not to outsiders on a ship. One thing learned at sea every man ( and woman) have their own private demons to fight. Gossip is only usually intent with malice. Bitterness is a bad thing for a person to carry around.

Ward 10 in the old Preston Hospital North Shields, formerly a Workhouse , was the ward where everyone gave false names was an awful lot of Smith’s and Browns on their patient list , so I am told. JS.

Lewis #23, as you know many of the Royal leaders in Europe at that time were related.
So in reality they manner in which they acted was that of a normal dysfunctional family.

#1 As there has been the usual guff about war and the hideous results of this post may show with all its replies , it’s always a subject talked about but always takes its natural course to the bitter end . The present wars in the Ukraine and Palestine seven years after these posts and nothing has changed. The Ukraine and Palestine will end in all events sometime in the future , but there will still be others to follow. It shows as always that man does not learn by his mistakes. JS.