A British sentimental postcard || This postcard shows a pensive boy, pen in hand, sitting at a table in front of a photograph of a British soldier. Inset above is a larger photograph of a British soldier. The scene is entitled ‘A Loving Greeting for Xmas’, and the verse below reads: ‘Dear Dad I feel I can’t do better / Than write to you a little letter / Just my love for you to tell / And hopes it finds you safe and well.’. A message pencilled in a childish hand on the reverse of the postcard reads: ‘to Daddy from Fred with love’. The typeset information states, ‘Printed in England’. / No. 311.’ and ‘M.B. Series’.

The main portion of this postcard shows a woman sitting in a deckchair outside a house, her daughter perched in her lap, with the girl’s doll on the ground beside them. They appear to be reading a letter or looking at a photograph (perhaps of the British soldier whose portrait is inset above). The scene is titled ‘A Message of Love Daddy’, and the verse alongside reads: ‘Sitting at the Cottage door / Thinking of you far away / Our love for you grows more and more / And for your safe return we pray’. The typeset details on the reverse include ‘No. 681’, and ‘H. B. Series. Entire British Production. London, E.C.’. || A British sentimental postcard || || Front || A British sentimental postcard || Postcard

A British sentimental postcard || Pictured on main portion of this black-and-white postcard are a girl and her mother, both dressed in white, apparently reading a letter together. Above them is the legend ‘A Message of Love Daddy’, with a flower depicted between this and an oval inset photograph of a British soldier shouldering his gun. The verse to the right of the mother and child reads, ‘Sitting at the Cottage door / Thinking of you far away / Our love for you grows more and more / And for your safe return we pray’. The printed information on the reverse states ‘H. B. Series. Entire British Production. London, E.C.’ and ‘No. 681’. || || A British sentimental postcard || Postcard