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Message in a Bottle Gift Reunited Woman With Father 85 Years After His Death

23 Thursday Mar 2017

Posted by Message in a Bottle Hunter in Friendship, history, message in a bottle

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Durham Light Infantry, Emily Crowhurst, Gift, message in a bottle, Private Thomas Hughes, Steve Gowan, World War I

A Gift 85 Years in the Making

Imagine you lost your parents years ago. Imagine that today–decades after they passed–a stranger delivers to you a final letter from them. You thought you would never hear from them again. But here they are, one last time.

Emily Crowhurst never imagined she would receive such a letter. But through love, war, loss, and a dash of genealogical good fortune, that all changed one day in 1999.

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Private Thomas Hughes, a soldier since 1905, was a member of the Durham Light Infantry in England. He was among the first soldiers called to the war in 1914. BritishArmedForces.org states that Private Hughes and his brothers-in-arms “landed at St Nazaire and made their way to the River Aisne, north of Rheims, where Germans were dug in. [Hughes] and 40 comrades died on September 21 [1914]. His body was never recovered and he is commemorated with 4,000 British ‘unknown soldiers’ at the La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre memorial.”

Colour Party of the 9th Battalion Durham Light Infantry, June 19th, 1909 (Wikipedia)

Colour Party of the 9th Battalion Durham Light Infantry, 1909. Photo from Wikipedia. Unknown source.

In other words, when Hughes died, Continue reading →

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