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Photocopies and photographs

Reference: D/Ph 485 Catalogue Title: Photocopies and photographs Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: South Moor: First World War postcard

Covering Dates: 1915

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South Moor: First World War postcard (Ref: D/Ph 485)Ref: D/Ph 485/1

Postcard showing the Quai Chanzy at Boulogne with its busy harbour life, steam ships and tall ships, carts and horses, railway, stalls, people mending sails and sitting on a pier, tall houses and a church tower in the background, France. Sent by WG [Willy Gibbons], while on active service, to John ('Jack') Stephenson, 4 Elm Street, South Moor, informing him that he was 'still alive' and 'having a bathe almost every day', [postmarked Base Army Post Office] 21 June 1915
(1 postcard, 14 cm x 9 cm, black and white)



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