Postcard sent home from a German prisoner of war camp, Kriegsgefangenenlager Göttingen in Göttingen, Hannover, Germany, by RSM Lewis E. DeHarte to his wife in Toronto, Canada. RSM Lewis E. DeHarte was a prisoner of war from 1915-1919. The postcard is cardstock and a brown colour, with writing in pencil on both sides of the postcard. The postcard is stamped on the front with an ink stamp by the camp’s German Military Postal Examination Office, a Göttingen post office, a London post office, and pink date stamp that is one day after the writing of the card(the pink color matches the pink stamp of the camp’s German Military Postal Examination Office marking that the card had been examined found in earlier written cards by RSM DeHarte). There is written in pencil on the front in the top centre: “Kriegsgefangenensendung”, right below is printed: “Postkarte”, and the front of the card is split in two vertically by a black double line, with the left having sender information, being RSM DeHarte’s,  and the right having receiver information, being his wife’s, and dotted lines along the right of the card for writing on. The address of the recipient was first written as “114 Bloor St. West”, but then was crossed out with a single horizontal line through it in pencil, and below it is written instead “688 Yonge”.

The back of the card is a blank space and is filled in with writing by RSM DeHarte: “Gottingen Aug 13/16   My dear Wife. I am still in hospital though not seriously ill and am helping to look after a lot of new English and Australian wounded prisoners who have just come in. They were taken on the Somme and some are pretty badly wounded but they are pretty cheery. I see by the German paper “, from here a section of his writing has been notably censored by scratching over with pencil, “so I may not see you very soon. Love to you, my dear kiddies and Mac. Lewis”