'A real soldier lad.'
A British patriotic postcard
Entitled ‘A real soldier lad.’, this postcard presents us with a smiling boy dressed as a British army officer sitting on a table. The verse beneath reads, ‘Tommy is fit and able, / And full of push and go, / From sitting on a table / To sitting on the foe.’. On the reverse, the printed information includes the following details: ‘“A SOLDIER LAD.”/ Raphael Tuck & Sons’ “Oilette” Postcard No. 8897 / ART PUBLISHERS TO THEIR MAJESTIES THE KING & QUEEN. / Printed in England’. The postmark tells us that it was mailed in September 1918. There is a pencilled message: ‘Dear Willie, / Just card sic tell mother & Father that I recieved sic letter sic this morning. We are having a lovely time, but will soon be coming home as Bert & May are coming on Saturday. Good-bye. Will write in a few days with fondest love from Queenie ? xxx’. The postcard is addressed to ‘Master W. G. Bradshaw / 105 Shrubland St / Leamington Spa / Warwickshire’.
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CONTRIBUTOR
The Army Children Archive
DATE
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LANGUAGE
eng
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1
INSTITUTION
Europeana 1914-1918
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