'Dreaming of her soldier boy!'
A British patriotic and sentimental postcard
The artist Frederick Spurgin signed his name beneath the scene that he depicted on the front of this postcard: a girl asleep in bed with her arm around a toy soldier. The caption below reads, ‘Dreaming of her soldier boy!’. The postcard has been addressed in black ink to ‘Miss E MacKenzie / Fauvic. / Jersey. / Channel Islands.’. The message reads: ‘Chester. / 6th June 1915 / With best love from Father.’. The printed information includes: ‘Inter-Art Co., Red Lion Square, London, W.C. / “NEW LOVE” Series. No. 255. British Manufacture.’.
A British sentimental postcard
Postcard
Front
CONTRIBUTOR
The Army Children Archive
DATE
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LANGUAGE
eng
ITEMS
1
INSTITUTION
Europeana 1914-1918
PROGRESS
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