Although I do not know all of the people in the pictures here, Cynthia kept them with her wartime memorabilia, so they obviously meant something to her.
Cynthia’s friend from school, Jessie Muir, was the ‘officer’s wife’ Bobby apologized to in his last letter. Here, on a sunny day in August, are Cyn and Jessie with her daughter Zinnia.
Now, there’ll be a brief interlude with the focus off Cynthia: the posts will be moving to a Canadian mother of five, getting letters from her son on active service in the British Navy.
A Family History in Letters 