The printed text on the back of this ‘BRITISH MADE’ real photographic postcard includes the details of the photographer that produced it: ‘Stanley Mann Photographer, 27, York Place, Brighton East Sussex.’ The family that he photographed comprises a wide-eyed baby and his or her toddler sibling, their mother and their soldier–father, who wears a bandolier, a white lanyard and spurs. || A British real photographic postcard. || || A British soldier's family photographed in Brighton || Photograph

A few clues give us a little extra insight into this photograph. The single stripe on the soldier–father’s sleeves tells us that he is a corporal. And an embossed stamp across the mother’s feet on this photograph informs us that it was taken in the studio of ‘N GRUT / GUERNSEY’. The ‘N’ stands for ‘Norman’, who was the son of noted photographer Thomas Alfred Grut; by the time of the First World War, the Grut studio was located in St Peter Port, Guernsey. || A real photographic postcard

A photographic postcard. || The soldier in this photograph has placed a supportive hand on his child’s right-hand shoulder. The cap on the chair next to him appears to bear the badge of the Gloucester Regiment. The child’s bespectacled mother wears a cross around her neck, another visible piece of jewellery being her wedding ring. Printed on the reverse of the photographic postcard is the name and address of the photographer whose studio the family of three visited in order to pose for this snapshot in time: ‘W. Franklin, Photographer, 55 Twinnell Rd., Bristol’.