What I do know:-

• A postcard of the Empire Hotel, which was the HQ of the 2/6^th Battalion Sherwood Foresters until they moved to Luton on 3^rd Feb 1915.
• The postcard was posted from Epping on the 22^nd Feb 1915.
• The 2/6^th Sherwood’s were undergoing a course of entrenching in Epping from 8^th to 24^th Feb 1915.

Therefore the card mostly likely came from a man of the 2/6^th Sherwood’s – agree ?

What I don’t know:-

• “Cecil House” is/was a old famous house on Wimbledon Common – but I can’t ID Lady Stanl(e)y
• The message suggests a reasonably well-off young lady – “several of my foals at Liverpool Street [station]”
• Any chance of an ID on Miss Thompson ?

Could there a link between Miss Thompson and an Officer of the 2/6^th (or even other rank)?

But it’s not obvious to me at moment.

Unlikely to find an answer really, but I would like to know more about Cecil House and its occupants in 1914-15.