Souvenir Album of Postcards Sent by Private Edward Charles MOUCHEMORE, 6351

On the cover “Picturesque Natal / Souvenir Album / 12 Choice Views of / DURBAN / Series No. B”
Card 1 “Town Gardens and Post Office, Durban".
Card 1a “With all the chaps running round / and [sic] you I like to Be By myself / Well Darling I Will close / Now With love and kisses / from your ever loving / Sweetheart Ted / P.S. Write to No. 6351 Private E.C. Mouchemore / 28 AI 7 [sic] / England / That Will find me xxx”
Card 2 “Durban as seen from New Town Hall”
Card 2a “They gave us a great tea / hear tonight there was about / 1000 of us hear they are coming / in all the Time I could drink / the tea all day what we get / on the Boat is deadly. There / is some kids Playing the Band / it gets on your nerves The / one we have on the Boat / is enough. I heardly known / What I have Wrote about it is heard / to write on the Boat”
Card 3 “Town Hall from the Gardens, Durban”
Card 3a “see so many niggers hear as / durBan don’t know what they / are loke up town it is Raining / and much colder that durBan / Well love We got off We had / to march up to town about / Two miles from the Boat It / is not a Bad Place not as good / as DurBan there is a lot / of Blacks hear too not [sic] / as DurBan Blacks There is no / Ricksha hear”
Card 4 “Durban”
Card 4a “[sic] 17.1.1917 / Well Dear We are at the cape / it is very pritty coming passed/ cape of good hope very Big / hills it is a funny look Bay / We mite Be hear two or three days / six troop ships left hear yes / terday I don’t know what the / Town is like we mite get off / about two or go for a march / We are all ask out to Tea / to some hall To night. There / is one hill as we come in / nothing But guns. You don’t”
Card 5 “Bathing Enclosure, Ocean Beach, Durban”
Card 5a “hear again I hope I am not / away to long just see a / Bit of the war and come home / I hope to Be Back By next / year Have you seen any thing / of that chap that came down to / The shop If he does come don’t / have too much to do with him / This is a great Place for / gambling The Play cards day / and night”
Card 6 “Paddling Pool, Ocean Beach, Durban”
Card 6a “I must of told you things / two or three Times I Posted / a letter on Board and in DurBan / We have sports on hear to day / there is not much Room for any / thing we are Packed Pritty / tight. We get Tin Rabbit / once a week to day. It was walking round the fish got / a good Dinner. Well love I Would / just like to Be able to fly and / see you and come back”
Card 7 “Swimming Baths, Ocean Beach, Durban”
Card 7a “on her. They say we mite Be at / the cape for some Time There are / some German Boats out. We are only / about five miles of land now Three / or four other Boats ahead of us. 16.1917 / We Passed two lighthouses and and two / Boats We can still see land the water / is like glass to day just seen a Big / shark I think we will Be at / The hope to night or tomorrow / I am going to Post this there if / I can I don’t know what to / write about I think”
Card 8 “The Bay Esplanade, Durban”
Card 8a “It is no good to a white man for work / It is verry hot and mugge. Plenty of Fever / They say there is someone dying every / day, One of our chaps was pritty near / killed with a car tried to jump on while / she was going he ducked out of the / ranks. There is a Big sea running to / night 3 days Time We hope to / be at the Cape and then after that / look out for Tin fish go of a guard / day and night all around her with our / Pop guns There is something like 1500 / of us on her she has got about / 2000 Pounds of copper and other metal”
Card 9 “Gardiner Street towards Station, Durban”
Card 9a “They let me go again not meny / [sic] there it is very Pritty and well / layed out They have a lovely Beach / I was in swimming just the thing / I have seen all these Places I can tell / you I had a good time The only Thing The / shops were closed and could not get any / Beer or Girls I was speaking to two in / one little fruit shop But the lads say / They are verry cold They have no / Time for the Australians There were / five chaps missed to Boat all the / 28 turned up. I would of given any / thing to of had you hear dear / there may come a day When we / come come in a [sic]”