{"id":125,"date":"2011-03-23T21:55:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T21:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.ellimondo.com\/?p=125"},"modified":"2015-02-07T18:33:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T18:33:00","slug":"frank-crawshaw-soldier-londoner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frankcrawshaw.uk\/frank-crawshaw-soldier-londoner\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Crawshaw. Soldier, Londoner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Letters from Frank Crawshaw to Mabel Crawshaw 1912-1915<\/h2>\n

Mabel Crawshaw (1894-1964) was my great grandmother.<\/h3>\n

Alexander Frank Crawshaw, known to everyone as plain old Frank, was born in Brixton in 1893. He died in Wulverghem in Belgium on February 11th 1915. He was just 21 years old.<\/p>\n

I am going to post a series of transcripts, made by my great uncle, Geoffrey Debnam, of correspondence between Frank and Mabel, from 1912 up to his death in 1915.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"23508539-Frank1\"<\/a><\/div>\n

Here is Frank with, I can only guess, Mabel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Letters from Frank Crawshaw to Mabel Crawshaw 1912-1915 Mabel Crawshaw (1894-1964) was my great grandmother. Alexander Frank Crawshaw, known to everyone as plain old Frank, was born in Brixton in 1892. He died in Wulverghem in Belgium on February …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10,2],"tags":[18],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Wjz3-21","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":109,"url":"https:\/\/frankcrawshaw.uk\/an-introduction-to-frank\/","url_meta":{"origin":125,"position":0},"title":"An Introduction to Frank","author":"ellimondo","date":"30th March 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"My great great uncle, Alexander Frank Crawshaw, was born in Brixton?? in 1893 and died 21 years later on 11th February 1915 in the mud and carnage of Belgium during the First World War. 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Letter follows at first opportunity\" signed Frank and dated 2-12-14 2nd December\u00a01914 Another service postcard means only one thing: Another letter is winging its way to Brixton.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Letters"","block_context":{"text":"Letters","link":"https:\/\/frankcrawshaw.uk\/category\/letters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"A map of the Dorsets' trenches","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/frankcrawshaw.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Dorsets-trench-map-2-December-1914.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/frankcrawshaw.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Dorsets-trench-map-2-December-1914.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/frankcrawshaw.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Dorsets-trench-map-2-December-1914.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/frankcrawshaw.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Dorsets-trench-map-2-December-1914.png?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/frankcrawshaw.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Dorsets-trench-map-2-December-1914.png?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1268,"url":"https:\/\/frankcrawshaw.uk\/16-12-1914-brixton-the-flower-garden-of-london\/","url_meta":{"origin":125,"position":2},"title":"Brixton – the flower garden of London","author":"ellimondo","date":"16th December 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"PC to Miss Crawshaw etc franked 16 De 14 Card dated 16-12-14 Dear Till Just a few lines hoping this finds you all at home in the best of health as I am the same. 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