'Has anyone here seen Kaiser Bill?'
A British comic patriotic postcard.
The name of the artist – ‘S Hurley’ – who drew the scene depicted on the front of this postcard is written to the left of the caption, which reads, ‘“HAS ANYONE HERE SEEN KAISER BILL?”’. Above, stands a small boy dressed in a soldier’s red tunic and fusilier’s cap, toy sword drawn, a tumble of cut-down and cut-up toys surrounding him. There is plenty of information on the reverse. The printed details read: ‘CELESQUE SERIES – Copyright Design, No. 937. / Published by The Photochrom Co. Ltd London and Tunbridge Wells’, along with ‘B’, ‘ALL BRITISH PRODUCTION’ and ‘P.Co.’ The postmark states that the postcard was mailed from Bovington Camp Dorset at 7pm on 30 March 1915. There is a pencilled name and address: ‘Miss E Gibbs / 41 Harborne Park Road / Harborne / B’ham Birmingham’. There is also a message, which reads, ‘Dear Edith / received letter today glad all well my cold is better will write a letter tomorrow / with love / from Herbert’.
Postcard
CONTRIBUTOR
The Army Children Archive
DATE
1915-03-30
LANGUAGE
eng
ITEMS
1
INSTITUTION
Europeana 1914-1918
PROGRESS
METADATA
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