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A hello and a handshake, for Armistice day

War was declared between France and Germany on 3 August 1914.  Our vintage postcard is dated 14 October 1914 and was sent by Raymond Langlois of Vernon in the Eure Normandy, to his friend M. Victor of Saint-Cyr-du-Vaudreuil, 30km away. M. Victor had been injured just two months into the 'Great War'. The

Vernon, the town that liberated itself in 1944 Normandy

Vintage postcard showing the mill at Vernon in Normandy France

As we stood on the latest Vernon bridge (there have been many) in Eure, we matched our postcard with no idea of the dramas this idyllic scene had witnessed.  An online search revealed a vast library of WW2 pictures of soldiers.  Then we discovered just a suggestion of a lesser

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