'The result of a weeks leave'
A British comic/patriotic postcard
The initials of the artist who created the scene on the front of this postcard – ‘FW’, or ‘WF’ – can be seen in the bottom right-hand corner. He has depicted a British officer and his wife walking behind a nurse holding twins. The scene is captioned ‘“The result of a weeks leave”’. The typeset text on the reverse includes ‘H. B. Series. Entire British Production. London’ and ‘No 1039’. The postcard is franked ‘BLACKPOOL / 7 30 / 15 JUL 18’. It is addressed in pencil to ‘Miss G L Jenkins / 72 Trafalgar Rd / Smethwick / B.ham Birmingham’. The message reads, ’15 Alexandra Rd / S S ? / Dear Gert / Don’t you wish you were here. It is lovely weather. Pack a few things and come you can sleep with me. C? has not come have you seen anything of him, this is better than work. Love Annie xxxx’.
Postcard
A British comic postcard
Front
CONTRIBUTOR
The Army Children Archive
DATE
1918-07-15
LANGUAGE
eng
ITEMS
1
INSTITUTION
Europeana 1914-1918
PROGRESS
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