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He's Got His Discharge in 1919

            The Postcard

An H. B. Series postcard that was printed in Great Britain. The artwork was by A. E. The card was posted in Hull using a 1d. stamp on Wednesday the 15th. October 1919. It was sent to:

Miss V. Goldsmith,
Scotton Camp,
Catterick.

The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:

"Dear Vic,
Just a PC along with
the rest.
I shall be back on
Saturday night again
with you all.
Love,
Theo."

P. G. Wodehouse

So what else happened on the day that Theo posted the card to Vic?

Well, on the 15th. October 1919, P. G. Wodehouse published his comic novel 'A Damsel in Distress' through Barrie & Jenkins after it was serialized in The Saturday Evening Post earlier in the year.

Edwin Charles Tubb

The day also marked the birth in London of Edwin Charles Tubb.

Edwin was a British science fiction writer, best known for his Dumarest saga. He died in 2010.

Howard Smith (Diplomat)

The 15th. October 1919 also marked the birth of Howard Smith.

Sir Howard Frank Trayton Smith GCMG was a British diplomat who served as Director General of MI5 from 1978 to 1981.

Educated at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, Smith worked at Bletchley Park during World War II, and later became the British ambassador to Moscow. 

At college in Cambridge, Smith was a contemporary of Asa Briggs, playing chess with him and recommending Briggs to fellow Cambridge mathematician Gordon Welchman for service in Hut 6 at Bletchley Park.

Smith joined the Foreign Office in 1939, and from 1946 to 1950, he served in Oslo and Washington. In 1953, he was Consul in Caracas, and between 1961 and 1963 he was Counsellor of State in Moscow.

Smith served as Ambassador to Czechoslovakia from 1968 to 1971 and later served as Ambassador to the Soviet Union in Moscow from 1976 to 1978.

In 1978 Smith was unexpectedly appointed Director General (DG) of MI5, the United Kingdom's internal security service, by Prime Minister James Callaghan, serving until March 1981. 

He was the first DG from a background in the diplomatic service. Callaghan later explained that:

"I wanted to bring someone into 
the office from a different culture."

Sir Howard died at the age of 76 on the 7th. May 1996. 
   

Taken on: May 7, 2023

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