Mystery as letter posted during WWI was delivered to home in South London more than a century late
A LETTER posted before the Battle of the Somme in World War One arrived more than a century later.
It was written in February 1916, and the envelope had a stamp bearing the head of the King, George V.
Finlay Glen, 27, was amazed to get it delivered to his home in Upper Norwood, South London.
He said: “We were obviously pretty surprised and mystified as to how it could have been sat around for more than 100 years.”
Addressed to “my dear Katie”, believed to be the wife of stamp dealer Oswald Marsh, it was written by pal Christabel Mennell while she was on holiday in Bath.
She says she felt “quite ashamed of myself after saying what I did”, and was “miserable here with a very heavy cold”.
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Mr Glen, a theatre director, said: “It’s an amazing piece of their family history that has turned up.
"If they want, they can come round.”
Royal Mail, whose staff want a pay rise, said: “Incidents like this happen very occasionally, and we’re uncertain what happened.”
