{"id":1331,"date":"2011-12-04T07:30:11","date_gmt":"2011-12-04T07:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/?p=1331"},"modified":"2025-07-02T12:53:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T11:53:02","slug":"world-war-ii-christmas-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/world-war-ii-christmas-cards","title":{"rendered":"World War II Christmas Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My grandpa, <strong><a title=\"William Hellyer Geake\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hibbitt.org.uk\/familytree\/fam1848.html\">William Hellyer Geake<\/a><\/strong>, was called up on 1st January 1941 to participate in WWII and he sent this Christmas Card to his family whilst he was away. I believe it was 1941 as his youngest daughter would have been a baby then, which he mentions in the card. Away at war, he didn&#8217;t see his youngest daughter until she was 4 years old.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1335\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1335\" class=\"wp-image-1335 size-full\" title=\"The Front of Grandpa's WWII Christmas Card\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/christmas-card-front.jpg\" alt=\"The Front of Grandpa's WWII Christmas Card\" width=\"350\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/christmas-card-front.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/christmas-card-front-122x150.jpg 122w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1335\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Front of Grandpa&#8217;s WWII Christmas Card<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1336\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/christmas-card-inner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1336\" class=\"wp-image-1336 size-large\" title=\"Inside Grandpa's Christmas Card\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/christmas-card-inner-640x396.jpg\" alt=\"Inside Grandpa's Christmas Card\" width=\"640\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/christmas-card-inner-640x396.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/christmas-card-inner-500x309.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/christmas-card-inner-150x93.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/christmas-card-inner-768x475.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/christmas-card-inner.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1336\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inside Grandpa&#8217;s Christmas Card (click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My grandpa, William Hellyer Geake, was called up on 1st January 1941 to participate in WWII and he sent this Christmas Card to his family whilst he was away. I believe it was 1941 as his youngest daughter would have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/world-war-ii-christmas-cards\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-1331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ancestors-corner","tag-geake"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1338,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions\/1338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}