A British sentimental postcard. || Entitled ‘GOD BLESS MY SOLDIER DADDY (4).’, this postcard is the fourth and last in a series produced, as the text on the back informs us, by ‘BAMFORTH & CO., LTD., PUBLISHERS HOLMFIRTH (ENGLAND) AND NEW YORK’, further details being ‘“SONGS” SERIES. NO. 4875/4.’ and ‘PRINTED IN ENGLAND.’. More small print on the front states, ‘BAMFORTH COPYRIGHT.’ and ‘BY KIND PERMISSION OF E. MARKS & SONS, E.C.’. The front of the postcard is divided in half. Depicted on the left-hand side is an apprehensive-looking mother embracing her daughter. The verse below them reads, ‘So don’t keep on crying, dear Mammy, / Cheer up, and keep a brave heart, / For Daddy will soon be returning, / And then we shall never part.’. On the right-hand side, mother and daughter have been joined by a soldier – the girl’s father – and all are looking happy to be together again. The verse below tells the tale: ‘At last war was over, and Daddy came home, / And happiness reigned once again, / The little girl sat on her Daddy’s knee–– / She knew she had not prayed in vain.’. || || A British sentimental postcard, the last in a series of four. || Postcard

A British sentimental postcard, the third in a series of four. || According to the text on the back of this postcard, it was ‘PRINTED IN ENGLAND.’ by ‘BAMFORTH & CO., LTD., PUBLISHERS HOLMFIRTH (ENGLAND) AND NEW YORK’, as part of the ‘“SONGS” SERIES. NO. 4875/3.’. The heading on the front – ‘GOD BLESS MY SOLDIER DADDY (3).’ – confirms that it is the third of a series, further details being ‘BAMFORTH COPYRIGHT.’ and ‘BY KIND PERMISSION OF E. MARKS & SONS, E.C.’. The posed scenario depicts a darkened room, with girl in her nightdress kneeling before her mother, who is wearing a dressing gown. Above them, inset within a bubble, are shown soldiers in action. The verse that accompanies these scenes reads, ‘Each evening when bedtime was coming, the girl for her Daddy would pray, / And ask God to guard and protect him when fighting so far away. / And often the girl to her mother would say, “ I know you feel lonely and sad, / But I shall take care of you, Mammy dear, as God will take care of our Dad.”’ || || Postcard || A British sentimental postcard, the third in a series of four.

A British sentimental postcard || The printed information on the reverse of this postcard states that it was produced by ‘BAMFORTH & CO., LTD., PUBLISHERS HOLMFIRTH (ENGLAND) AND NEW YORK’; that it is the first in the ‘“SONGS” SERIES. NO. 4875/1.’; and that it was ‘PRINTED IN ENGLAND.’. The posed scene on the front shows a small girl clutching at her distracted-looking mother, who is seated beneath a framed portrait of a soldier in uniform. The text below, headed ‘GOD BLESS MY SOLDIER DADDY (1).’, reads, ‘A little girl said to her mother, “ Mammy, dear, why do you sigh ? / Whenever I speak of dear Daddy you always begin to cry ; ” / “ Your Dad is a soldier,” the mother replied, “ He was call’d to the war yesterday,” / The little girl knelt by her mother’s side, and pray’d in her sweet childish way.’. The small-print text at the bottom of the postcard says ‘BAMFORTH COPYRIGHT.’ / ‘BY KIND PERMISSION OF E. MARKS & SONS, E.C.’. || || Postcard || A British sentimental postcard headed 'God bless my soldier daddy I1)'