Category Archives: Postcards

The Daily Postcard No. 6

Bearing in mind your comments yesterday, here are a couple of similar images, both originally scheduled for a couple of weeks time but brought forward to today, the first entitled (on the reverse, which is otherwise blank)  ‘In Dire Need … Continue reading

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The Daily Postcard No. 5

Saved.  Apparently.

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The Daily Postcard No. 4

An Italian-manufactured card, despite the French writing, featuring a captured German Taube surrounded by French officers, the photo taken in Salonika, on the Macedonian Front. 

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The Daily Postcard No. 3

Literally, ‘We don’t worry because we will have them with that’.  Hommage to the famous French 75 mm quick-firing field gun, introduced in 1898, and recognised as the first true modern artillery piece.

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The Daily Postcard No. 2

English Hussars on the way to the front, optimism on their smiling faces.  Another early postcard, this time French, and is that really a pith helmet I spy?  I do believe it is.  The officer in the background leading these … Continue reading

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The Daily Postcard No. 1

In these times of stress and anxiety, with most of us pretty much stuck inside now for the duration, we are going to need to find things to do to keep safe and sane (and let’s be fair, there’s only … Continue reading

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Bousbecque German Military Cemetery

Rather like the cemetery at Wervicq-Sud, a mile and a half away to the west, Bousbecque German Military Cemetery is another that I have intended to visit now for many years. 

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