A Cake Walk in 1916. And the Sinking of a Submarine.

            The Postcard

A postcard featuring artwork by Louis Weirter R.B.A. The card was printed in England.

A cake walk (or cakewalk) is an informal term for an absurdly or surprisingly easy task.

The card was posted in Plaistow using a ½d. stamp on Wednesday the 9th. August 1916. It was sent to:

Miss F. Crush,
c/o 39, Parker Road,
London Road,
Grays,
Essex

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

"Dear Flo,
Thanks for card. Enjoy
yourselves. Remember
me to all the others.
Don't forget to get done
brown.
I hope you are not all
doing it like this.
Father took his card to
work with him.
Mother says it's lovely
down Hastings.
Don't forget to let me
know the day you are
coming home.
Love Hatt.
p.s. I had a card from 
Bess & Lil from
Southend this morning."

Curiously, 'done brown' is a phrase used in cookery; it is also applied figuratively to someone who has been thoroughly deceived, cheated, or fooled.

The Sinking of a Submarine

So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?

Well, on the 9th. August 1916, an Austro-Hungarian aircraft sank British submarine HMS B-10 in the Adriatic Sea, the first time an aircraft had succeeded in sinking such a vessel.

Martin O'Meara

Also on that day, Australian soldier Martin O'Meara repeatedly went out and brought in wounded officers and men from no man's land under intense artillery and machine-gun fire during the Battle of Pozières.

Lassen Volcanic National Park

Also on the 9th. August 1916, Lassen Volcanic National Park was established in California.
   

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