A British sentimental postcard. || The front of this photographic postcard shows a boy sitting on his mother’s knee, beneath the photograph of a soldier. Underneath them is printed the following lines: ‘WHERE HAS MY DADDY GONE TO? (1) / ’Twas in a cosy cottage, one cold, raw Christmas Eve, / Sat a mother with her baby boy, nurs’d upon her knee ; / The boy ask’d for his Daddy, and why he ne’er came home, / Please won’t you tell me, Mamma ? he ask’d in a gentle tone.’ Beneath these lines is the following information: ‘BY PERMISSION OF E. MARKS & SON, 125 MARE STREET, HACKNEY, LONDON, N.E’ and ‘BAMFORTH. COPYRIGHT.’ Further printed details on the back of the postcard tell us that this is the first of a series: the ‘“SONGS” Series No. 4981/1’, ‘PRINTED IN ENGLAND’, by ‘BAMFORTH & CO., LTD., PUBLISHERS HOLMFIRTH (ENGLAND) AND NEW YORK’. || || A British sentimental postcard: 'Where has my Daddy gone to?' || Postcard

This is the second of a set of four postcards, the ‘“SONGS” Series No. 4981/2’, ‘PRINTED IN ENGLAND’, as the small print on the back informs us; the publisher’s details are also given: ‘BAMFORTH & CO., LTD., PUBLISHERS HOLMFIRTH (ENGLAND) AND NEW YORK’. The scene depicted on the front of the postcard is a young boy questioning his morose-looking mother, who stands below a soldier’s photograph. The text beneath them reads: ‘WHERE HAS MY DADDY GONE TO? (2) / Where has my Daddy gone, to my darling Daddy dear? / Won’t you please tell me, Mamma, why Daddy ne’er comes near? / He must know ’tis very wrong to give Mamma all this pain ; / Please, Mamma, tell me where my Daddy is, and I’ll bring him home again.’ Printed beneath the poem are the following lines: ‘BY PERMISSION OF E. MARKS & SON, 125 MARE STREET, HACKNEY, LONDON, N.E.’ and ‘BAMFORTH. COPYRIGHT’. || A British sentimental postcard. || || A British sentimental postcard: 'Where has my Daddy gone to? 2' || Postcard

A British sentimental postcard, one in a series of four. || Numbered on the reverse ‘SERIES NO. 4860/4’, this is the fourth and final postcard ‘PRINTED IN ENGLAND’ by ‘BAMFORTH & CO., LTD., PUBLISHERS HOLMFIRTH (ENGLAND) AND NEW YORK’ of the ‘When Daddy Comes Home’ series. The small print at the foot of the card adds: ‘BAMFORTH (COPYRIGHT). BY KIND PERMISSION OF MESSRS. ASCHERBERG, HOPWOOD & CREW, LTD’. As with its three predecessors in the series, two photographic scenes fill most of the front of the postcard, in this case, a girl excitedly clutching her dreamy-looking mother and, in the top right-hand corner, the same girl and her mother welcoming a soldier home with open arms. The verse beneath these scenarios runs, ‘WHEN DADDY COMES HOME (4). / When do you think it will be, mother? Shall we have long to wait / Till the Germans have learned their lesson, and we hear dad’s step at the gate? / The bells will ring and the people shout, flags wave and the streets be gay, / And you and I will go wild with joy when daddy comes home that day.’. || || 'When Daddy Comes Home 4', a British sentimental postcard || Postcard