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At the Front (2)
Back of post card; personal letter written to Toronto, Ontario, Canada
“27.6.1915 – All Well here very busy at war work for Hosp! Have you found a house you like yet? I do hope so. Trust all are well. All loving thoughts from The Antique”
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British Battery in Action (2)
“30/4/16. These are very pretty guns and I wouldn’t mind being on one. Am very busy this week & can’t write today.”
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British Soldier and Sailor Portrait (2)
“H.M.S. IMPREGNABLE photo card. Gus(?) Springham [illegible] Billy Springham Fontinettes”
A “fontinette” was a lift lock system in France. It is unclear what the term refers to in the context of this card. The card does recall that many families had multiple sons and brothers in different branches of the service at the same time.
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British Soldier Portrait (2)
This card from an American dough boy was sent during the last weeks of the war in the autumn of 1918.
“I have chased old Bill across the Rhine and am still on watch am Rhine mix come home until after the finish. I hope that you an all of the family are well I suppose Clement is back and well I saw quite a few Haverhill boys here from the infantry from your old friend good by. Felix D McKenna (Don’t faint when you see this Photo”
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Death in the Trenches (1)
Even rarer are postcards that actually show dead soldiers. These images were controlled very carefully by the forces of all combatant nations. In most instances the production of cards such as this one emanated from a neutral state like the Netherlands.
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Howitzer Battery (2)
“We had guns like this at Horsham [training base in England]. They can do quite a bit of damage.”
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Life in the Trenches (1)
All correspondence from enlisted personnel and non-commissioned officers had to pass through censors. As a result, very few photographs from the front captured the horrors associated with life in the trenches. This card is an exception.
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