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Post by jamesw on Oct 27, 2014 20:14:27 GMT
A family friend gave me these postcards this weekend. A lovely lady who sadly has just lost her husband, she's always on the lookout for material for me. One of my best enablers. These are both from the First World War and picture soldiers posing for the camera. The earlier one from 1914 shows a group of sergeants. The later card posted in 1917 shows a group of soldiers in a hospital posing with their nurse. Behind them is a poster with CANADA and our country's coat of arms. I don't know if all the soldiers are Canadian, but I think I detect maple leaves on some of their hats. Similar emblems appear on the hats of the sergeants on the first postcard, so I'm wondering if they can be Canadian soldiers as well. Perhaps some of you military experts can clear that up for me.
  Both cards are mailed in Britain to a destination within that country. The recipient, Miss M. Gulliver, seems to be quite the soldier magnet. Both senders, Arthur and George seem quite familiar to her. Looking at the postmark on the second card, I'm wondering if it is a military post. The location, I think, reads Maidenhead, but it's definitely not an APO or FPO. But the heavy split ring and numeral 1 on the bottom are reminiscent of military postmarks. Again I defer to the experts.  |
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Post by jamesw on Oct 27, 2014 20:20:05 GMT
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Post by I.L.S. on Oct 29, 2014 7:45:45 GMT
Beautiful stuff James! I have some US cards and the Great White Fleet cards but those are real beauties you have! Congrats!
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Post by Anping on Apr 2, 2017 11:11:13 GMT
Looking into the details of the first postcard you posted, the sergeants are unlikely to be a group of Canadians. The postmark is St Albans, 10th October 1914. I believe the Canadian forces didn't set sail for England until 3rd October. St. Albans was known for a very large training camp called Briton's. From what I can find, the Canadian Forces were encamped at Salisbury Plain.
Unfortunately, the cap badges are quite indistinct. They could be Royal Artillery. One of the badges looks like one from the Northumberland Fusiliers, but I suspect this may be an optical illusion. I noticed that the men's belt buckles are quite distinctive which might offer a further clue to a military historian.
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Post by jamesw on Apr 2, 2017 12:51:16 GMT
Good morning/afternoon Anping.
Thanks for reviving this dormant thread. And thank you for you expertise. As I obviously showed, I'm no military expert, so you input is much appreciated.
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Post by daniel on Jul 30, 2021 3:42:04 GMT
A very attractive silk embroidered patriotic postcard from WWI.  |
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Post by WERT on Jul 30, 2021 14:07:30 GMT
Nice post card daniel I have a couple of WW1 post cards..here is one of them. The silk woven one is the troop ship that brought Canadian soldiers home from a post in England. Robert
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Post by WERT on Jul 30, 2021 14:09:56 GMT
Here is another post card that given to troops on ship..I Grand Dad was on it. Robert
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Post by vikingeck on Jul 30, 2021 14:26:10 GMT
Nice cards, the silk embroidered cards like daniel shows were started as a hand sewn cottage industry by Belgian Nuns to help employ widows and refugees earn some money. They were popular with the British soldiers as a souvenir to send home. There were sweetheart and dear wife messages, love and remembering messages and also the badges of individual regiments( these were particularly collectable and some are quite scarce). These hand sewn ones were not cheap considering the small daily pay of an ordinary Private. By the end of the war less expensive machine made silks like Robert’s WERT Olympic were being mass produced due to the increased demand. |
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Post by hdm1950 on Jul 30, 2021 15:45:36 GMT
The Bruce Bairnsfather's Fragments of France humorous series by Bystander are a popular collectable from the WWI era. This one is unused and so had no philatelic interest to me but was too cute to send off to my eBay listings. This link gives some background of the series. www.brucebairnsfather.org.uk/fragments-postcards  |
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Post by vikingeck on Jul 30, 2021 16:47:56 GMT
One that didn't make it ! Addressed to Private G Watt No 9435 of the 2nd Battalion of the East Surrey Regiment, a POW in Crefeld Germany. Christmas 1916.  Mrs Mead, who had two sons Killed in action, set up a small charity to send comfort and greetings to Prisoners of War. Unfortunately her Christmas postcards ( of which I have several, never made it to Germany.) The handstamp reads [ Picture Postcards are returned by the Censor]Because of their construction from 2 or three layers there was a fear that picture cards could be split open and secret messages written inside, so they were not allowed to foreign destinations. |
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Post by vikingeck on Jul 30, 2021 17:06:04 GMT
Edith Cavell, two memorial cards unused, commemorate the British Nurse in Belgium convicted of helping British prisoners to escape. one, printed on silk, quotes her final words,  The second is 1916 "ANTI-HUN BRUTALITY" propaganda. Condemned to death by firing squad, it gives an exaggerated and purely fictional account of her execution, calling it "murder" and suggesting the soldiers didn't shoot when she fainted, so the officer ..." the fiend takes his revolver and.... deliberately blows her brains out"  |
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Post by WERT on Jul 30, 2021 18:37:12 GMT
Here is a post card from WW1....Robert A. Coulson that made it's way from England to his mother...Weird not a stamp, must have been sent through army process. The nice thing about this post card, it is my grandfather. Also just added his WW1 dog tags.
Robert
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Post by vikingeck on Jul 30, 2021 19:26:16 GMT
Robert , it looks like he decided not to risk damage by sending as a postcard.
He would qualify for free postage when overseas , but I think he may have sent this in an envelope with a letter for safe keeping.
As an army postcard he would have written OAS ( on active service) and the card would be censor marked , and date stamped with a Field post office. Then being Canadian the Canadian PO would add a free 2c regular GeoV stamp and cancelled again. Granddad would have wanted his mother to get an unspoiled photo of him without all these extras!
It looks like he was cavalry or a mounted regiment with baggy jodhpurs and a cartridge bandolier?
that could be artillery or mounted infantry ( we called Yeomanry)
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Post by JeffS on Jul 30, 2021 19:27:12 GMT
@wert - likely in an envelope.
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Post by WERT on Jul 30, 2021 20:51:47 GMT
Yes i think you guys are right...In an envelope to protect the post card. BTW,,Was in the 105th Battalion out of P.E.I. Canada
Robert
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