A few days ago we featured a rather moving Christmas card from the Western Front describing the 'long trail to happiness'.

It was written by the father of Bob Preston, who served in the First World War and was a card to the woman he loved, who he couldn't wait to come home to.

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The Christmas card

Since then we've heard from Lesley Dunlop of Charmouth, who got in touch to share this wonderful - but unusual with a flower design - Christmas card, which was sent by her great grandmother Jane Parrish to her son - Lesley's grandfather Reginald in 1913.

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Reginald Parrish

Lesley tells us: "Reginald was a Bandsman with the 2nd Battalion (City of London) Royal Fusiliers in India, where he spent two years before the call to arms at the end of 1914.

"On April 25, 1915 he was amongst the first to land on X Beach in Gallipoli and wrote of his experience, comparing it to 'hell on earth'.

"I'm currently writing about his life and military endeavours and those of my father in World War II in a book to be titled Two Lives, Two World Wars.

"The verse on the card below reads:

'Each hour a pearl, each pearl a prayer

To still a heart in absence wrung:

I tell each bead unto the end,

And there a cross is hung.'

It is from a 1903 ballad called The Rosary.

Thanks so much to Lesley for sharing this moving verse in the card.

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The verse on the card