Wooden Elephants

Today we have the story behind these two wooden elephants, shared with us by Penny White.

Penny says I was born at the beginning of World War 2. My Father was serving as an officer in the Army based in India. He returned home on leave once to Caterham Surrey and my sister was born 9 months later, I have an elder brother and therefore my mother had three young children to care for on her own. The only transport she owned was a bicycle and I wonder how she coped with shopping etc.

When my father returned home after the war ended he brought with him two small black elephants which were carved in wood.  My parents later separated and my mother remarried. When she died my brother, sister and I spent a week emptying the house. When I came across the small black elephants sitting on a window sill it brought back so many memories. They seem to have lost their tusks and the baby only has half a trunk, but I have them on a shelf now in memory of my dear mother and father.