On the BBC! A family history audio Factual Tale – ‘Buried Letters’


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‘Buried Letters’ appeared on BBC Radio Bristol on Friday, 18 August 2023. You can listen to it here.

Buried Letters A short award-winning family history audio factual tale based on Chloris Drabble. On completion of her nursing qualification in 1917 Chloris left nursing in the Huddersfield Infirmary to join the Scottish Women’s 7th Field Hospital at Lake Ostrovo in Macedonia, where she fell in love with a Serbian interpreter and was irrevocably changed.

Helen continues to research Chloris’ story in te hope she can I identify the Serbian interpreter and any descendants.

An imagined likeness of the Serbian interpreter.Alamy licensed image AG28PD The image is actually of Charles I, 17.8.1887 – 1.4.1922, Emperor of Austria 21.11.1916 – 11.11.1918, portrait, drawing 1911, King of Hungary, Habsburg-Lorraine, 20th century, Austria-Hungary, Habsburg-Lorraine, Habsburg Lorraine, Archduke, Karl, First World War, WWI, ,