While sorting out some antique picture postcards recently I came across two vastly divergent examples from World War One (WW1). Almost every conceivable subject about the conflict can be found in ...

However, postcards reached the height of their popularity during the First World War when they were sent home from the battlefields of the Western Front. The silk-embroidered cards were made by French ...

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Wartime postcards took many forms. Some were amusing, showing sketches of soldiers with 'regimental smiles' on payday. Others included poetry verses You can save this article by registering for free ...

Canadian Pte. Martin John Suter would spend an entire day's pay on a single silk postcard for his sweetheart, Florence Reid, who was waiting for him an ocean away. Over the three years Suter spent ...

It was early in the First World War and she was a small, strict Cornish-bred woman with one goal in mind: to keep her daughters away from the soldiers billeted in town. Striding toward the Faversham ...