Autograph album/commonplate book || The autograph album/commonplace book belonged to Rose Hughes, the sister of the contributor's great-grandmother. She worked in service in a large house. The autograph album includes verses, pictures and autographs of many Belgians, apparently refugees or wounded solders. There are brief inscriptions in French or Flemish with dates of birth and the place they were wounded etc. || || Autograph || Français || Nederlands || Home Front || English

An autograph in my mother's Autograph Album written by a German POW working on my Grandfather's farm in Flinshire in 1919. Translation: He who wants to gather roses, mustn't be afraid of the thorns! He who wants to be happy in love must be very modest! (Question: Did Friedrich have a soft spot for my mother?) Far from home , in the land of the Welsh I found friends. God bless the bond. My Grandmother's brother was killed by the Germans in June 1917, yet she was able to befriend this German POW. I'm grateful for that.

a Autograph in my mother's Album by Alwyn Fahland, a German POW in N.Wales.