A Scottish soldier and his family.
A mounted photograph.
This photograph was pasted onto a grey card, on which the names of those pictured are handwritten in pencil. The children’s names are given as ‘Dorothy’, ‘Cyril’ and ‘Sidney’, while their soldier–father (who is wearing a kilt and cutaway tunic, identifying him as belonging to a Scottish regiment) is ‘Ernest’ and their mother is ‘Ethel Bradford ?’.
CONTRIBUTOR
The Army Children Archive
DATE
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LANGUAGE
eng
ITEMS
1
INSTITUTION
Europeana 1914-1918
PROGRESS
METADATA
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