In Active Service and a Post Card

Mom typed up this list of the family members that have been involved in the different war efforts here in South Africa.

Starting with Christopher Wedderburn, the 1820 Settler who was involved in the Frontier Wars of 1835 and 1846.

Fred and I found George Wedderburn's name on a memorial in the grounds of St. John's Church in Bathurst when we visited a week ago. He died of his wounds in 1851.

Further down the list are what she calls:
Some of the Settler's Great-grandson's

On the list is Alexander Wedderburn, the second son of Alexander John Ennis and Alice and older brother of my Grandpa Percy.

Alexander, was born in 1888.
As a handsome young sergeant in London and in active service, he drops a post card to his mother Alice Wedderburn at 32 Monument Road in Bloemfontein on the 8 August 1915.

'I spent the day at London Tower, St Paul's and Westminster Abbey. It is colossal. '

He writes that it would have been more exciting to have spent the holiday in Bloemfontein.

A poignant post card, less than six months later he will have died of his wounds somewhere in Egypt.

Heartbreaking for Alice.