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Collection Item: Postcard

Basic info

Collection
Photographs
Object name
Postcard
Black and white print
Object category
Photographic print
Description
Conventional postcard the front of which has a printed photograph of French troops with a field gun and limber, with the caption 'Une piece de 75 mise en position/ A 75 gun being put in action'. Reverse is printed with conventional words and design and addressed to 'Miss A Kilham No. 3 Monk Crescent, Monkgate, York'. Text reads 'Dear Millie Just a line/ recieved book letters/ [running short?] I have not/ time to write a letter/hope you are well letter to follow [?]. WAW' 'W A Williams'. With a red cencor's stamp and Army Post Office postmark 17 March 1918.
Production date start
1917
Production date end
1918
Period
World War One

More info

Identification

Object number
YORCM : 1969.73.1
Number of objects
1
ID
30005033