A British comic postcard || Artist T Gilson, whose signature can be seen in the bottom right-hand corner, created the scene on this postcard. He has depicted a boy scrubbing the skin of a howling smaller boy (apparently with soda), who is immersed in a tin bath on a rug. The caption below reads, ‘Mother’s making Munitions – and I’m on War Work too.’. The printed details on the reverse state, ‘No. 808. British Manufacture. / The “Alphalsa” Publishing Co., Ltd., 2 & 4 Scrutton St., London, E.C.’. The stamp has been franked, but the details are unclear. The card has been addressed in pencil to ‘Miss A / Providence House / Dunholme / Nr Lincoln’, and the accompanying message reads, ‘Just a few lines hoping to find you well. Keep my rabbits and pigeons fat till I come home. I shall bring you something if it is only a rotten egg. I am your Tom’. || || Front || A British comic postcard || Postcard

Photo of nurses Box of assorted Red Cross medals incl. 1914-1918 service || Photographs from the British Red Cross hospital at Banbury.

Here are several postcards sent by Serbian prisoner-of-war, Aleksandar Miljkovic, in Branau, Austria, which is near the German border, to his mother Emilija Miljkovic, in Krusevac, Serbia. The postcards are dated from 1917 and 1918. The contents, written in faded pencil, might seem mundane, with thanks for a parcel his mother had sent him, for the socks, Serbian 'pogaca' bread, some cake in a box, and so on, but such letters were an important lifeline in communication between incarcerated soldiers and their relations back home, as well as evidence of the good work that the Red Cross was doing in facilitating this. || Three Red Cross postcards send by a Serbian prisoner-of-war in Braunau, Austria, to his mother in Krusevac, Serbia.