'Loving comrades'
Beneath this photograph of a small boy and his father, both wearing kilts and holding rifles, are the lines: ‘Loving comrades, faithful and true, / Willing and ready to dare and to do; / A soldier he’d be, helping dad in his need, / A boy of the trusty old bulldog breed.’. The postmark on the reverse of the postcard tells us that it was posted on 9 February 1918. There is a handwritten name and address: ‘Mrs Booker ? / “Burlingham House” / Atkins Road / Balham / London’, and a message, which reads: ‘Saturday dinner time / I have just received box with thanks. I will write in a day or two, hoping you are all quite well, from Charlie’. The printed details are as follows: ‘BRITISH MANUFACTURE / 4353 / Valentine’s Series’.
A British patriotic postcard posted in 1918
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Postcard
CONTRIBUTOR
The Army Children Archive
DATE
1918-02-09
LANGUAGE
eng
ITEMS
1
INSTITUTION
Europeana 1914-1918
PROGRESS
METADATA
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