Postcard

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Date:1914 - 1918 (c.)

Description:Postcard sent from Jack to Ethel on 19 June 1916. It has a silk mesh insert which is decorated with embroidered canon in the centre in brown and yellow. There is a red and yellow crown above the cannon and a yellow scroll which reads "UBIQUE" and "QUO FAS ET GLORIA DUCUNT", the mottoes of the Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery. There are flags either side of the cannon, one of which is the Union flag, and blue flowers. "RHA" is embroidered below the canon in yellow.

This card was sent to Ethel May Harrison (nee Tims). She had two brothers, Jack and Fred, who were both killed in action in World War One. They are named on the Leamington Spa War Memorial. They wrote to Ethel regularly during the war, as well as sending her souvenirs from France, such as a handkerchief and cloth case.

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Donor ref:LEAMG : M4713.2011.27 (70/29051)

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