'... our hands will meet again!'
A small girl and a boy wearing a British soldier’s uniform are depicted in a domestic setting on the front of this postcard. Kneeling on a rug, they grasp one another’s hands across a water-filled tub on which toy ships are floating. The caption below reads, ‘Tho’ the water is between us, yet our hands will meet again !’. The typeset details on the reverse state, ‘Art and Humour Publishing Co., Chancery Lane, London, W.C. / A & H “ TINY TICKLES ” Series. No. 420. British Manufacture.’. From the postmark, which is only partially visible, we know that the postcard was mailed on 9 August in Croft. There is also a message, written in black ink, headed, ‘Croft / Leicester’. It reads: ‘Dear Aggie just a PC hoping you arrived home safe on Wednesday we are having nice weather and Beatie and Alfred are having a fine time we shall be back on Saturday all being well we shall come by the seven o clock train from hear ? with love from Aunt Nelly & Beatie & Alfred xxxxxxxx’. The same hand has addressed the postcard to ‘Miss A Webster / 8 Duke St / Hinckley / Leicestershire’.
A British sentimental postcard
Postcard
CONTRIBUTOR
The Army Children Archive
DATE
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LANGUAGE
eng
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INSTITUTION
Europeana 1914-1918
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