Posted Missing Telegrams from Western Desert - Page 2

VRob · 08-02-2010, 05:48 PM

Thanks to all for the info - much appreciated!

handtohand22 - cheers for posting that telegram - very useful image.

Verrieres - that's certainly an illuminating description of timeframes - and a sad accompanying story, alas. At least in this situation the family appear to have been kept informed throughout. I'm not sure that the chaotic retreats and long supply chains in the Western Desert would have allowed such prompt updates.

Za Rodinu · 08-02-2010, 09:51 PM

You all always manage to astound me!

Tom Canning · 09-02-2010, 12:18 AM

vrob -
as you alluded to time frames - the length of time beteen the Gazala Gallop - summer '42 and the Gothic Line Sept '44- gave the post office enough time to get the system well in hand - in my own case however -

I was wounded 17th Sept '44 -my parents had a telegram to the effect that I was "missing believed wounded" - AFTER I had been a week in the 71st GH at Ancona - shipped down to the 98th GH at Bari - then shipped to 33rd GH at Catania in the middle of October .....at the same time as my first letter(Green Envelope) - written by a nurse at Bari arrived !

Cheers

08-02-2010, 09:51 PM	#12 (permalink)
Za Rodinu I'm getting soft! Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Where the sun doth shine :) Posts: 3,709	You all always manage to astound me! __________________ Herodotus on the Persians: "It is also their general practice to deliberate upon affairs of weight when they are drunk; and then on the morrow, when they are sober, the decision to which they came the night before is put before them by the master of the house in which it was made; and if it is then approved of, they act on it; if not, they set it aside. Sometimes, however, they are sober at their first deliberation, but in this case they always reconsider the matter under the influence of wine."

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08-02-2010, 05:48 PM	#11 (permalink)
VRob Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 11	Thanks to all for the info - much appreciated! handtohand22 - cheers for posting that telegram - very useful image. Verrieres - that's certainly an illuminating description of timeframes - and a sad accompanying story, alas. At least in this situation the family appear to have been kept informed throughout. I'm not sure that the chaotic retreats and long supply chains in the Western Desert would have allowed such prompt updates.

09-02-2010, 12:18 AM	#13 (permalink)
Tom Canning WW2 Veteran Join Date: May 2004 Location: Agassiz B.C. Canada Posts: 2,389	vrob - as you alluded to time frames - the length of time beteen the Gazala Gallop - summer '42 and the Gothic Line Sept '44- gave the post office enough time to get the system well in hand - in my own case however - I was wounded 17th Sept '44 -my parents had a telegram to the effect that I was "missing believed wounded" - AFTER I had been a week in the 71st GH at Ancona - shipped down to the 98th GH at Bari - then shipped to 33rd GH at Catania in the middle of October .....at the same time as my first letter(Green Envelope) - written by a nurse at Bari arrived ! Cheers

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