Category Archives: Postcards

Generations at War

Posted on January 22, 2020 by Magicfingers

Thoroughly uninteresting postcard (hence the tiny inset) of a tomb in Rouen Cathedral that was awaiting me on my return to Blighty the other day, more than made up for by the note on the back – from serving son … Continue reading →

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A Tour of Langemark Postscript

Posted on July 7, 2018 by Magicfingers

As a postscript to our Tour of Langemark, this is a German grave marker that I acquired only last year.

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Merry Christmas Everybody

Posted on December 25, 2017 by Magicfingers

Well folks, another Christmas, the eighth that this website has seen, and this year, for your delectation, a selection of Christmas cards from the collection, all written one hundred years ago.  This first one is the official London Regiment card … Continue reading →

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Guerre 1914

Posted on December 25, 2016 by Magicfingers

It is nearly midnight on Christmas Day, and I should probably be fast asleep by now, bearing in mind that they dragged me dahn the pub at 11.30 this morning!  The Missus has done the chauffeuring all day, Morecambe & … Continue reading →

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Happy Christmas One & All

Posted on December 24, 2016 by Magicfingers

I delved into the collection to bring you this Christmas card from exactly one hundred years ago (censored, you will note), featuring a painting of a place we visited on our trip to the Somme earlier in the year, Delville … Continue reading →

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Another Trench at Ypres

Posted on November 11, 2016 by Magicfingers

Another newly acquired postcard, and again an image I haven’t seen anywhere else, this view of a captured French trench near Ypres was taken the day after the Germans’ first ever use of gas on 22nd April 1915, at the … Continue reading →

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The First Trench at Ypres

Posted on November 3, 2016 by Magicfingers

Here’s an interesting postcard that came into my possession only this week.  I often talk about how trenches in Flanders had to be built above ground due to the high water table, using whatever came to hand, and this photograph … Continue reading →

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