'Does she believe him.'
Sitting in a deckchair, a girl dressed as a nurse looks up into the face of a boy dressed as a British army officer. This posed scene is entitled ‘Does she believe him’. The printed information on the reverse states ‘(91) Entirely British Manufacture.’.
A British patriotic postcard.
A British patriotic postcard
Postcard
CONTRIBUTOR
The Army Children Archive
DATE
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LANGUAGE
eng
ITEMS
1
INSTITUTION
Europeana 1914-1918
PROGRESS
METADATA
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