This postcard belongs to the category known as ‘silks’ on account of its silk embroidery on a gauzy fabric. The embroidered details on this particular silk, which has been mounted within a cream border, include the legend ‘A KISS FROM YOUR DADDY’, violets, the Union Jack and the French flag (the ‘Tricolore’). The central flap can be lifted in the manner of an envelope’s flap; inside is a small rectangular card on which is printed a terrace scene surrounded by four-leafed clovers, along with the legend ‘A Loving Birthday Greetings sic’, with the French ‘Tricolore’ and the British Red Ensign flags being crossed in the bottom right-hand corner. On the reverse is printed ‘CARTE POSTALE’. There is a message written in pencil, which reads: ‘Dear Daughter / Just a line to let you know I have sent a P.C. to your Uncle John so with Best of Luck / I remain your loving Dad / good night tell Mamma’. || A 'silk' postcard with insert.

‘I never Forget You, Daddy’, is the title of this postcard, which depicts a boy gazing intently at a photograph of a British army officer. The verse below reads, ‘Sometimes when I’m on my lonesome, I could a’most fink I saw / My own Daddy, talking to me, ’stead of fighting in the war ; / P’raps it’s what my Mum calls day-dreams––says she sees him now and then, / Wish I wasn’t just a-dreaming, and my Dad was here again.’. ‘Madeleine St. Clair.’ And ‘Bamforth copyright’ have been printed across the bottom. The typeset details on the reverse state ‘Bamforth & Co., Ltd., Publishers Holmfirth (England) and New York / ‘Patriot’ Series No. 1095 Printed in England.’. The postcard has been franked ‘EPSOM in Surrey 7.15 PM 19 MAR 1916’. It has been addressed in black ink to ‘Master R. W. A. G. Gibbons / Croxton / Brocklesby / Lincs’. Dated ’19.3.16.’., the message reads, ‘My Darling Geo, What do you think of this card, is that what you do? Love and Kisses from your affect Daddy. xx’. || A British sentimental postcard || || Front || Postcard || A British sentimental postcard

Described as a ‘MIDGET MESSAGE CARD’, further printed information on the back of this card, which is far smaller than a postcard, includes the following details: ‘Presented with “The Red Letter.”’ / ‘From’; ‘The Address only to be written here’ / ‘To’; and ‘For Halfpenny Postage Sender’s Name and Address only allowed.’ Two elements make up the composite image on the front: firstly, a photograph of a small girl with her hands held together in prayer, looking towards, secondly, an inset head-and-shoulders portrait of a British soldier. Printed across the lower third of the card is the following verse: ‘You know, dear Daddy, I don’t forget / And I pray for you every day. / And God will bless you I know, but yet / I’d rather you’d not stay away. / You know, dear Daddy, we’re thinking of you / Always, wherever you be. / And we always know that you’re brave and true / Just the same as Mamma and me.’ Along the bottom are the words ‘Copyright’ and ‘Wanderer’, while ‘No. 10’ can be seen in the bottom right-hand corner. || A British sentimental postcard.