Category Archives: Postcards

Magnificent early French card entitled ‘Taking a summit in the Vosges’.  Note the two Chasseurs Alpins on the right.  And the shrapnel!  I’m not sure that position is in the bayonet-training handbook either, but whatever works……

The Germans could do sentimental stuff too.  Don’t do it!

C0lour film was around even early in the Great War, and this is a true colour photograph – not coloured – of a German machine-gun position in the Champagne region of France in 1915.

I showed you an early postcard produced by Bamforth & C0. Ltd a couple of days ago, so today we take a look at a more typical Bamforth production from the Great War years. 

Today we have an English card followed by three French ones.  Many regrettable acts took place during the Great European War of 1914; we’ve already seen what happened to Rheims, and the deliberate sacking of the Belgian town of Louvain … Continue reading →

Not the most attractive of cards, but worth showing for future reference, if you bear with me.

Homage to the French Armed Forces, and in particular, the Aéronautique Militaire (Air Force).