Some Neat Snippets Of Handwriting From Wwii

[Witsius]

In this episode of War Stories by Jeremy Clarkson, he goes through some military archives and, there are a couple of brief shots of handwriting. I always enjoy seeing handwriting from the past, and I thought you might enjoy seeing this as well. Watch the whole segment in the archives, because there are a couple of shots from a couple of different documents to look at.

 

I wonder what ink would have been used for this sort of work. https://youtu.be/nXusKM5uX0s?t=14m43s

Edited July 21, 2016 by Witsius

[sidthecat]

I wondered what he was up to these days.

[Water Ouzel]

I wondered what he was up to these days.

 

He's done a series of these documentaries. The first I saw was about Operation Market Garden ("A Bridge Too Far"), IIRC one or more of his older relatives were part of the operation, so that one at least had some personal meaning to him.

[zwack]

If you are interested Zooniverse has several project transcribing old documents... Old weather which transcribes ships logs, decoding the civil war, shakespeares world, transcribing war diaries, and so on.

 

If you are interested in looking at old documents and carrying out useful work on research projects have a look at zooniverse.org

[OCArt]

 

 

If you are interested in looking at old documents and carrying out useful work on research projects have a look at zooniverse.org

What a wonderful website. Thanks for calling it to our attention.

[Zookie]

Really enjoyed the documentary!

I don't know how many ink manufacturers there were back then, and it being a wartime economy, they were very limited in what was available for use.

My guess would be a Parker or Sheaffer ink, like todays' Quink or Skrip. Civilians probably had to come up with their own solutions.

My grandma once told that she used laundry bluing to write with. I tried it with a dip pen, it works!

[Tasmith]

 

He's done a series of these documentaries. The first I saw was about Operation Market Garden ("A Bridge Too Far"), IIRC one or more of his older relatives were part of the operation, so that one at least had some personal meaning to him.

His father in law, Major Robert Cain, awarded the Victoria Cross for heroism during Market Garden.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Henry_Cain

Edited July 24, 2016 by Tasmith