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Published: Monday, 11 November 2024 at 13:53 PM<\/p>

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An artist\u2019s cartoons of life fighting in the First World War<\/a>, plus decorated love letters to his sweetheart back home, have been published online by family history website Findmypast<\/a>.<\/p>

Private Henry Page\u2019s scrapbook was found at Southwark Archives and digitised by Findmypast.<\/p>

Henry joined the army as a volunteer on 25 October 1915. After a year on home service with the Walworth TA Unit, 24th London Regiment, he was sent to France where he served six months. In early December 1916, the 2\/24 set off for Salonika, where Henry spent another six months. In June 1917, he was shipped to Alexandria, Egypt. At one point he caught typhoid fever and spent 16 weeks in hospital.<\/p>

Henry\u2019s drawings depict day-to-day life in the army. They include cartoons of soldiers and drawings of the Alexandria streets and people.<\/p>

Henry also wrote letters back home to his sweetheart, Edith Pedley, drawing beautiful illustrations on the envelopes. One drawing shows the lovers sat on a cliff top with the words \u2018What I’m waiting for\u2019, while another shows them toasting with the caption \u2018Here\u2019s To Us Both For The New Year\u2019.<\/p>

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Findmypast\u2019s genealogists have also found out more about Henry and Edith. In the 1911 census<\/a>, Henry is living in Stoke Newington, London. He is 21 years old and his profession is \u2018Designer in Drawings\u2019. Edith, meanwhile, is living in Mile End. She is 19 years old and her profession is \u2018Shorthand Typist\u2019.<\/p>

Happily, Henry survived the war and he and Edith married. In the 1939 Register<\/a> they are shown living on Dunstable Road, Luton, with Henry\u2019s profession given as \u2018commercial artist\u2019. Henry died in 1976 and Edith in 1984.<\/p>

Jen Baldwin, Research Specialist at Findmypast, said: \u201cThis is a truly remarkable love story that was able to survive everything the Great War could throw at it.\u201d<\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n

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