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