QMy family have two postcards, of the same four people, dating from irst World War, but apart from an address and two names, we have no idea who they are. A military uniform features in both. Can you help?
Robert Davies
A The cards, both of the same two couples, aren't stamped and have “With compliments from Edith and Alfred Parkinson, ‘Clovelly’, Wood Street, Beddington Corner, Mitcham Junction, Blighty”. The absence of stamps and “Blighty” suggest that they were posted together, in an envelope, to a soldier serving abroad - possibly the one in the pictures. The names offer few immediate clues, but the address does. A search on the 1921 census for Alfred Parkinson living at Wood Street produces Alfred, a sheet-metal worker aged 47 and his wife Edith…