The Tactical Notebook

The Tactical Notebook

No Goose this Christmas

A letter from the Front

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Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson
Dec 26, 2025
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As the name implies, the La Femme Chic dealt mostly with fashion. However, during the First World War, each monthly issue of that magazine included a column written, under the nom de plume of ‘Minnie’, by the wife of a soldier serving at the front.

In the installment of her column that rolled off the press in December of 1915, Minnie described a letter she had recently received from her husband.

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