With love and kisses for his dear wife and a wishes for a merry Christmas and happy New Year back in Matilda Street, Peterhead, Port Adelaide, Trooper Arthur Forsyth , of the Australian Light Horse Regiment , sent the top French postcard on the 23rd of October, l917. It is a view of the bridge Kast-el-Nil .
The other postcard , also French , posted in January l918, shows the busy donkey market at Barrage. Bearing both the stamp of the Light Horse Regiment and passed by the A.I.F censor, it was sent to Forsyth's son ,Master Joe Forsyth , expressing the wish that he was looking after" Dear Mum, " doing what she told him , and keeping the yard clean .
There is also a request not to forget to look after "Jacko" .Was this a dog , a cocky ? A photograph of Forsyth late in life showed him sitting with an old dog .
Four of the Forsyth's comrades in arms feature in the following cluster of worn , faded and damaged postcards, the photographs taken in a studio .
At the top , left , seated , with a cane , is a soldier identified just as H. J. C. , apparently nicknamed Aussie . Next to him , with riding crop and pith helmet is Trooper J. H. Harrison ,10th Reinforcements , 9th Light Horse , Egypt.
On the bottom row , dated 11/10/1916 , addressed"to my dear ones at Home , Sunny South Australia , the name of the helmeted soldier " one of my mates", is obscured. Carre ...visible .
With a backdrop of a painted encampment , the other comrade is Pal or Pat Pearman.
