'If unable to join | get recruits!'
A British patriotic postcard
The illustration on the front of this postcard shows a small girl grabbing hold of a protesting boy in the street. The captions below, in English and French, read, ‘If unable to join, get recruits!’ and ‘A la chasse des volontaires!’. The legible details on the partially visible postmark tell us that it was franked in Wendover (in Buckinghamshire) in September 1916. It has been addressed in pencil to ‘Miss E. Anker / c/o Mr. G. Ashling / No. 30 Midland Terrace / Midland Cottages / Cricklewood / London. N.W.’. The message reads, ‘My dear Evelyn. I hope you are quite well as it leaves me. I hope you are enjoying yourself at London. I hope I shall see you on Sunday Morning if all is well the train will get there about 9.45 or 10 in the morning. I think I have got the day off. I think this is all this time from your Loving Dad. xxxxx’. The typeset information includes the following details: ‘Inter-Art Co., Red Lion Square, London, W.C. / “TWO-NINE-THREE” Series. No. 302. British Manufacture.’.
Français
English
Postcard
CREATOR
The Army Children Archive
DATE
1916-09
LANGUAGE
eng
ITEMS
1
INSTITUTION
Europeana 1914-1918
PROGRESS
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