These are my parents. I have 400+ letters exchanged between them 1942 – 1945
There are letters in the 1945 collection referencing the first week in May, leading up to VE Day and the day itself.
My father had T.B. (tuberculosis) and spent the early years of WW2 in sanatoria in Wales. My mother was a Welsh Assistant Nurse, stationed at The London Hospital by May 1945.
My mother (Megan) was not one for rushing out on the streets, climbing lamp posts or kissing bus conductors, although she has plenty to say about it all!
My father (Jock/not Scottish) could only shake his head and come out in sympathy with the ordinary citizens of Germany in their plight.
Interesting and understandable angles – but perhaps not ones they shared widely at the time.
This is a letter from my mother Megan Humphreys, aged 23, a Welsh assistant nurse working at the London hospital in May 1945 to my father Jock (John) Raven, aged 24, who is recovering from tuberculosis and living and working in South Wales. Megan is not one for frivolity, letting her hair down or engaging in social occasions. I think this can be deduced from the tone of her letter to my father at the time of the VE Day celebrations!
