Text on the back of the postcard showing Ernest actually flying at Twello:

This postcard was never sent anywhere. This is one of two postcards, both marked in white ‘paint-like’ ink, looking as if it has been applied with a brush, the phrase in Dutch: “ARCHER TE TWELLO” meaning “Archer at Twello”. So perhaps Ernest had a supply of postcards printed to record his exploits? And I have two of them. This one records the details of his French pilot’s licence, No.214, obtained via the Blériot schools at Pau and Issy,  and the other has been used by his younger brother Herbert  for writing to their mother, living at 7 Tackley Place, Oxford, about a trip he is making to Cromer from Uxbridge, in which he goes first “by boat” (yes, it does say ‘by boat’) to Yarmouth, and then by train to Cromer. It does not indicate how many days were involved for such a trip. 

qaa© Philip B Archer 2014