Wartime document from tea room at Peterborough railway station contains heartbreaking notes,jokes and sketchesIn December 1916 2Lt cadet Colin Miller Jamieson gratefully accepted the free coffee and cigarettes, and wrote in the visitors’ book of an improvised tea room at Peterborough railway station: “When the war drum throbs no longer, and may I – going north – be here again.”Jamieson was breaking a journey south after leaving his family home in North Shields and,his message of hope completed, he caught the train back towards the western front. Within five months he was lost in Flanders, or presumed killed in action.
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Source: theguardian.com