... A true story | just brought from Paris by a gentleman | who arrived in England only two days ago This story is founded on a dream of Bonaparte | which happened a week since | and has greatly agitated his mind | arising no doubt | from the inward workings of conscience. This dream he communicated to his faithful Mameluke | and some how or other it has transpired - perhaps by the secret intentions of providence | whose ways are inscrutable. The dream is here given in verse. This ballad concerns the proposed invasion of England by Bonaparte and his forces. First line reads: Ye Britons | to your country true. In two columns. 1d. each; 6d. per dozen; or | 3s. 6d. per 100.

The name of the photographer whose studio the pictured family visited is written across the bottom right-hand corner of this real photographic postcard: ‘Fred. W. Jassell / Carlisle once in Cumberland’. A British soldier is pictured with his wife and daughter; his uniform bears no discernable distinguishing features that would enable us to determine his regiment or corps. || A real photographic postcard || || A British soldier and his family photographed in Carlisle || Photograph || Front

Golden Treasury Book - see flyleaf and back page in book listing his service. Had this rebound book with him throughout the war. || This story is about my father Hugh Paterson Haddow OBE MC who was a captain in the 17th Highland Light Infantry. Hugh was born in 1897 and enlisted in the HLI on September 12, 1914, and subsequently on November 22, 1915. The gap was possibly due to him getting a commission as an army officer and returning to the front line after retraining. His brother, who also served in the HLI, joined at the same time. Inside the front cover of Hugh's Golden Treasury Book it says Corp HP Haddow No. 15854 A-Coy 17th HLI (Highland Light Infantry) BEF (British Expeditionary Force). On the back cover it says: A.Coy 17th HLI Somme January 1916.