‘Hello There Little “Tummy” Atkins!’
The artist whose initials (‘FG’) appear on the right depicted a comic scene on the front of this postcard: a boy yelling ‘Hello There / Little “Tummy” Atkins!’ after a stout British soldier marching ahead of him. The postcard has been franked, but the postmark is illegible, apart from ‘16’ (i.e., 1916). The card is addressed in pencil to ‘Miss P. M. Bannard / Acacia Lodge / 276 Banbury Road / Summertown / Oxford.’. There is no message. The printed details on the back include ‘COPYRIGHT. E MACK KING HENRY’S RD., HAMPSTEAD LONDON’ and ‘1011’.
A British comic postcard
Postcard
Front
CONTRIBUTOR
The Army Children Archive
DATE
-
LANGUAGE
eng
ITEMS
1
INSTITUTION
Europeana 1914-1918
PROGRESS
METADATA
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