This is the Piazza Vittorio Emanuele in Faenza in Emilia-Romagna sometime in the early 20th century.
It is a picture I like and is also one that reminds me of Varese where some of our family live.
But what marks this picture out as special is that it belongs to Daniel Murphy who told me that 'in 1914 my father joined the Royal Artillery, RHA/RFA as a driver.
From that time until the end of the WW1 he sat astride a horse and pulled field guns and ammunition carriages into place on the front line both in France, where he was shot and suffered shrapnel wounds, and later in Egypt and Pakistan, where he contracted malaria .
On his way home from Cairo in June 1919 he sent this postcard to his mother in Woolwich.
It reads - "Dearest mother, expect me home in three or four days after receiving this.
Am on my way now. Love to all at home. Your loving son Jack." (Followed by many kisses)”'
Location; Italy
Picture; Piazza Vittorio Emanuele Faenza circa 1919, courtesy of Daniel Murphy
But what marks this picture out as special is that it belongs to Daniel Murphy who told me that 'in 1914 my father joined the Royal Artillery, RHA/RFA as a driver.
From that time until the end of the WW1 he sat astride a horse and pulled field guns and ammunition carriages into place on the front line both in France, where he was shot and suffered shrapnel wounds, and later in Egypt and Pakistan, where he contracted malaria .
It reads - "Dearest mother, expect me home in three or four days after receiving this.
Am on my way now. Love to all at home. Your loving son Jack." (Followed by many kisses)”'
Location; Italy
Picture; Piazza Vittorio Emanuele Faenza circa 1919, courtesy of Daniel Murphy
my father did the same job with the RA in WWII, he ended his war in padua Italy b4 returning home, he never spoke about the war
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