This soft-focus photograph shows a British soldier and his wife and child in a garden setting. A stamp on the reverse states, ‘Photo. W. A. Sharp. Hull.’. || A real photographic postcard || || Photograph || A British soldier and his family photographed in Hull || Front || Home Front || Women

There are no written clues – be they printed or handwritten – to help us to identify this family of four, but at least the name of the photographer’s studio that produced this photographic postcard is embossed on the front: ‘J. J. Payne, 106 Anlaby Road, Hull’. The details of the soldier–father’s cap badge are difficult to make out, but it may be that of the Royal Artillery, particularly since he is also wearing a bandolier. The children and their mother are warmly dressed in fashions suggesting the later years of the First World War. || A soldier's family of four photographed in Hull. || || A British soldier's family photographed in Hull || Photograph

A real photographic postcard || A handwritten note on the back of this real photographic postcard states, ‘taken December 12th 1917.’. Although partly obscured, the details of the photographic studio can also be read on the reverse: ‘Proctor ? Station Road, West Croydon in Surrey’. The family of three that visited Proctor’s studio in order to be photographed comprise a small boy, his mother, and his soldier–father, whose cap badge is that of the Army Service Corps. || || Front || A photograph of a British soldier and his family || Photograph