'Come over | you will be welcome.'
‘Fredk Spurgin’, the name of the artist who drew the illustration on the front of this postcard, can be read above the caption, ‘COME OVER, YOU WILL BE WELCOME.’, with the French equivalent – ‘Passez, vous serez le bienvenu!’ – printed beneath that. The scene shows a British soldier walking resolutely towards a plank bridging a stream. A girl wearing a French liberty cap stands on the opposite bank, her arms outstretched in welcome. The printed information on the back states, ‘Inter-Art Co., Red Lion Square, London, W.C. / ALLIANCE” Series. / No. 280. / British Manufacture’. The postcard is addressed in ink to ‘Miss L. Draper. / No. 8. Manor Avenue. / Apsley End. / Hemel Hempstead / Herts’. There is also a message, which reads, ‘Dear Linn ? / Am sorry but shall not be able to come over on Saturday
A British patriotic postcard
Postcard
Western Front
CONTRIBUTOR
The Army Children Archive
DATE
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LANGUAGE
eng
ITEMS
1
INSTITUTION
Europeana 1914-1918
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