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 front left of the card has RSM DeHarte’s sender information, and the front right of the card has the receiver’s information, being his wife’s information. The postcard is stamped on the front with an ink stamp by the camp’s German Military Postal Examination Office and a London post office. There is printed on the front in the top left: “Feldpostkarte Carte en franchise – Post Card”, and in the top right: “Kriegsgefangenen-Sendung” (meaning prisoner of war mail). The front of the card is split in two vertically by a single line drawn with a pencil, with the left for sender information and the right for receiver information and dotted lines along the length of the card for writing on.

The back of the card is a blank space and is filled in with writing by RSM DeHarte: “Göttingen 14-5-16   My dear Wife.- I received april money O.K.($5.00). I guess you did not get my card asking for $10.00. I have at last got a letter from my father and will write my next one to him. Mrs fox will not get anything before you and after all I only said I might send her something. I have some silk bags made by Russians here and I will try to send them to you and you can distribute them for me. Did you get my request for a parcel of laundry soap and for two Right Khaki Shirt? Love to all – Lewis.” Also, written vertically on the right side is: “Kisses to Jim & Bill”.

NOTE: This and other similar prisoner of war letter postcards by RSM Lewis E. DeHarte are stored in a Ziploc bag with the postcard under the accession number 2009015010.