WWI period postcards

[jwp]

[reneblacky]

Nice lot fellas
Here's two that I have

[Jerry B]

Nice lot fellas
Here's two that I have

Did you ever get the German example translated, never seen that one before.

[reneblacky]

Did you ever get the German example translated, never seen that one before.

No unfortunately it's never been translated

[jwp]

portraits of two chaps who were local to where I live, both survived the war.
john.

[jwp]

the hospital ship my grandfather returned to blighty on.

[jwp]

these are cards my grandfather sent back home, all are written but not stamped, so I assume they must have been enclosed with letters. John.

[Jerry B]

these are cards my grandfather sent back home, all are written but not stamped, so I assume they must have been enclosed with letters. John

Hi John,

always great to see family items, these fabric cards are not something I own any of, but I have always thought they are really typical of the period. He obviously loved his wife.

[jwp]

thanks jerry, the second pic shows my grandparents after grandfather was discharged in 1920, he lost his right leg below the knee in October 1918, grandfather passed away in 1947, his death certificate states wounds received during the great war as a contributing factor in his death.
John.

[Jerry B]

Part of the tobacco fund where people made donations to send cigarettes and tobacco to the front line troops during WWI. The card is the reply from the front line to a local newspaper editor in my home town of Cardiff. I have never seen a reply card before and to get one from my home town is a real bonus. In the first post of this thread is the more typical example that was sold to raise money to buy the tobacco products to send to the troops with the illustration by the same artist.