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A British corporal and his family

The printed details on the reverse of this real photographic postcard tell us that the family pictured on the front visited ‘The Ideal Studios, 514-516 Oxford St., W. London’ in order to be photographed. Seated in a chair, a young mother supports a baby on her lap. Standing to the right is the army child’s father. The two stripes on his left sleeve tell us that he is a corporal, and the badge above them signifies that he is a Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) medical orderly.
A real photographic postcard

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A photograph of a British corporal and his family

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The Army Children Archive

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eng

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Europeana 1914-1918

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UGC

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europeana19141918:agent/b0832ad8d02ff5dc31543255daf157f5

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Story

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eng
English

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Europe

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Europeana 1914-1918

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Europeana 1914-1918

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2020601_Ag_ErsterWeltkrieg_EU

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mul

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The Army Children Archive | europeana19141918:agent/b0832ad8d02ff5dc31543255daf157f5

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2019-09-11T08:16:56.552Z
2020-02-25T08:13:23.624Z
2016-06-21 08:04:53 UTC
2016-06-21 08:05:43 UTC

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