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 yellow-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, a London UK post office, and an unknown “M” post office stamp. There is written in pencil at the front top that reads: “Kriegsgefangenensendung.” (meaning prisoner of war mail). The front of the card is split in two vertically by a double striped line, with the left for sender information and the right for receiver information and dotted lines on the right side for writing on.

The back of the card has horizontal dotted lines and is filled in with writing by RSM DeHarte: “Gottingen 17th 1916   Dear Chum. – I received you letter saying Bob was rejected. I am rather glad. I wish Bill were also. But it would make him very downhearted I suppose. Please call up Dunlop & Rose or Stan Taylor & say that I want the monthly Bulletin. Your jar of Raspberries were not screw tightly & all the juice ran out, Leave out one of the sodas + put in an extra tin of Beans, dear, if you please Your parcels are very nice but the Crab is falling off with the cookies. Love to one & all Kisses to my Kids Lewis”

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 2009015018.