Entitled ‘An Angel of Mercy.’, the staged, tinted scene on the front of this postcard portrays a boy dressed as a British officer lying on a makeshift stretcher (which actually appears to be a deckchair) on the grass, looking up at a girl dressed as a nurse, who is leaning over him with a glass of water in her hand. On the back is the printed circular logo – a ship at sea – of ‘Silk & Terry Birmingham’, while within the stamp box is the legend ‘Entirely British Production’. || A British patriotic postcard || || A British patriotic postcard || Postcard

A wooden covered book of pressed flowers of the Holy Land, with 'Jerusalem' on the cover. The spine is imprinted in French, English and German the flyleaf in these languages and additionally in Cyrillic script. Each plate of pressed flowers is in the same languages plus Hebrew. The inner cover is inscribed To Dear Ma and Pa from Jim 8-4-18. The flower plates, each interleaved with tissue paper, are from Jerusalem,Mount Sion,Mount Moriah, Siloah, valley of Jehosophat, Mount of Olives,Valley of the Jordan, Jericho,Bethlehem,Hebron, Mount Carmel and Nazareth. || My mother-in-law's uncle (Jim Ling) was nicknamed 'Egypt'. This is a souvenir book of pressed flowers that was sent to his parents back in London in 1918. The book was given to my husband by his mother about ten years ago. It is of little value as an individual item to us and we would like to contribute it to the broader picture of artefacts from the first world war. Details of a similar book can be found here http://archivesblog.lib.umassd.edu/2011/01/03/new-item-featured-pressed-flower-souvenir-from-the-holy-land/

Dad with uncle and cousins. || Front