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 ?’.

A real photographic postcard

Pictured on the front of this real photographic postcard are two boys, their mother and their soldier–father, who is holding a swagger stick; the details of the cap badge on his Glengarry are not discernible. The name and address of the studio in which they were photograph are printed on the back: ‘J. R. COLTART, Dalmeny Street, Leith in Scotland’. || A real photographic postcard || || A photograph of a Scottish soldier and his family || Photograph || Front