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

Posed against an ornate backdrop, a small boy and his parents appear to be looking warily at the viewer. It is notable that the boy’s soldier–father is wearing a white lanyard and a well-worn uniform. This real photographic postcard is slightly damaged, and has no written details giving us the family members’ names or that of the photographic studio that produced this image. || A real photographic postcard. || || A real photographic postcard of a British soldier and his family || Photograph