‘WW2 love letter between my parents taught me about love’

A woman who found a “treasure trow” of her parents’ letters, sent to each other during the World War Two, said it had been “remarkable” to read through them.

Anne was able to follow four years of his parents’ life, from the Wiltshire, in Wiltshire, who was thanks to thousands of letters after the early days of their relationship and expanding high and high and climbing in the war, expanding high and high and climbing in the war.

Ms. Holland’s father, Rex, was serving in Asia, when Japanese surrendered on 14 August 1945, while her mother was raising her children in Margaret, England.

“The one who really comes through me is love, especially from my father to my mother,” Ms. Holland said.

The couple met in 1941 at the Sevenox Hospital in Kent, where Margaret was working as a voluntary aid nurse. Rex was one of his patients.

Ms. Holland stated that Rex Margaret was “crazy” and the pair met several times in three months space to go to the dates of the “fastest” locations in London.

Months later, Rex sent Margaret a telegram, asking her to marry her next week on 14 August 1941.

But shortly after, he exchanged the vows, Rex was deployed in India.

Ms. Holland said, “They knew each other about such a short time and loving and admiring, within a few months he was posted in India, getting pregnant with my brother and he did not meet for about four years then.”

An entry in her mother’s diary written on 18 March 1942, read: “Rex Gone”.

Ms. Holland said, “The only means of contact for four years was by letter.”

“In many ways, of course, how they know each other.”

Some letters included “full-developed arguments” among the couple, but despite this ended with each “I Love You”, Ms. Holland said.

Rex served in many Indian cities before being deployed in the forest in Myanmar, earlier known as Burma.

Ms. Holland said: “Somehow or others, she kept writing. She kept writing. It is really remarkable.

He said, “I don’t know how Rex got time to do this. Margaret – My mother – once he was a child in the tow, how he got time? But he did,” he said.

Although the pair continued to communicate, Ms. Holland thought that her mother was struggling with depression while dealing with her long -range relationships and war turmoil.

But after surrendering Germany on 8 May 1945, Margaret attended the VE Day ceremony at London and sent a “Harshit” letter to Rex.

When Japan surrendered on August 15 after three months – a day after the couple’s fourth wedding anniversary – Rex sent a letter to Margaret, which was a letter to tell her about his work.

It was read: ‘My adorable dear, today in these parts it is the VJ Day of the office.

‘We reported last night and this morning, as I was sitting in a dock in my temporary office, sirens of all ships were looking together and Bunting flew from every masthead. Finally, it is really dawned: peace. ,

Ms. Holland said that the VJ day letter specifically made her “very emotional”.

The couple were married to the rest of their lives.

Margaret died in 1989 and Rex died in 1993.

Ms. Holland said that she still has a bundle of without reading letters.