With the British Army in Flanders & France

Another Daily Mail card today, and I have little doubt that, once again, just like yesterday’s card, the scene depicts exactly what it says on the tin.  Continue reading →

Among the best known Great War postcards are those produced from the summer of 1916 by the Daily Mail.  All show images taken by official British war photographers, and some of them, such as this one, are striking.  Continue reading →

Following yesterday’s card, today we pay a visit to the forgotten front.  The British sent an army to Salonika in October 1915 to counter Bulgarian advances south into Greece, and it remained there, through blazing summers and atrocious winters, until the war’s end.  Continue reading →

It seems we are off to Egypt today.  Continue reading →

More sentimental German postcards today.  Continue reading →

Aw.  Cute or what?  Continue reading →

Talking of food and drink, here’s a peaceful scene, as French troops brew up (or whatever the French equivalent is) outside a French tavern, but it’s the Dubonnet sign that attracts the eye.  Continue reading →