'Where has my Daddy gone to? 2'
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'
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CONTRIBUTOR
The Army Children Archive
DATE
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LANGUAGE
eng
ITEMS
1
INSTITUTION
Europeana 1914-1918
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