Friday, August 18, 2017

patriotic sewing

On the left is my grandmother, Cynthia Meerdink, with the Girls Society of the First Reformed Church of Hull, Iowa sewing a banner with stars for church members serving in the First World War.
About 1917.
Her brother Henry was a soldier in France at Verdun. Her boyfriend Jurrien Dykstra, who became her husband and my grandfather, (pictured below) was on the troop ship in New York Harbor when the armistice was signed.

4 comments:

julieQ said...

Awesome!! Did you go see Dunkirk?

Anonymous said...

Lovely.

Sharon

Ruth said...

Great history with the photos to prove it!

slimjohnson said...

The always interesting Dykstra/Davis history.