The typeset text on the reverse of this real photographic postcard states that it was produced by ‘Halksworth Wheeler, 109a Sandgate Rd., & 9 Church St., Folkestone Kent’. ‘NEGATIVE NO.’ has been stamped beneath that, followed by ‘35123 A’ in pencil. Pictured on the front are a haunted-looking soldier (one of whose hands is gloved), his wife and their daughter, who appears to have a sweetheart brooch at her throat that echoes the details of her soldier–father’s cap badge. || A real photographic postcard || || Front || 51.081397,1.1694559999999683 || A photograph of a British soldier and his family || 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’.