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Collection of cards sent to Miss Christy Addison, First World War.

 

 

 
Postcard sent to Miss Christy Addison.
‘Cheer up!! When you feel blue – if you’re a blonde it’s becoming – if you’re a brunette dye!”
Postmarked Rugby Station, 16 Sep 1911.
Accession Number: KO3015/01



Postcard sent to Miss Christy Addison, from soldiers, First World War.
Group of soldiers, possibly in France or Belgium, First World War.
Accession Number: KO3015/02


Postcard sent to Miss Christy Addison, from soldiers, First World War.
Kirkstone Pass, The Lake District. Postmarked 27 Jun 1916.
From Jack.
Accession Number: KO3015/03

 
Postcard sent to Miss Christy Addison, from soldiers, First World War.
Hotel des Anglais, Le Touquet-Paris-Plage. Postmarked Army Post Office 8 Dec 1918 from Charles Longstaff.
Accession Number: KO3015/04

 
Postcard sent to Miss Christy Addison, from soldiers, First World War.
Dans les Sapin, Le Touquet-Paris-Plage. Postmarked Army Post Office 13 Dec 1918, from Charles Longstaff.
Accession Number: KO3015/05

 
Postcard sent to Miss Christy Addison, from soldiers, First World War.
Painting of women collecting something in the woods. Postmarked Leicester 20 Apr 1916.
Accession Number: KO3015/06

 
Postcard sent to Miss Christy Addison, from soldiers, First World War.
La rue Robert de Luzarches, Amiens, France. Dated 30 Jul 1917, from Harry.
Accession Number: KO3015/07

 
Postcard sent to Miss Christy Addison, from soldiers, First World War.
La Grande Rue, Longpre-les-Corps-Saints (Somme) France. Postmarked Army Post Office, 23 Jan 1919. Dated 22 Jan 1919. From Harry Shuttleworth
Possibly Sergeant Harry Shuttleworth, number 2057 of the 1st/5th King’s Own. Overseas 15 Feb 1915. Transferred to Army Service Corps, as number M2/164287. To Class Z Army Reserve 8 Apr 1919. Medal Index Card shows medals named to Sergeant and KORLR. Transfer to the Reserve on 8 Apr 1919, would be ok for the dates of the postcards sent from France: 19 Jan 1919; 22 Jan 1919; 14 Feb 1919; 20 Feb 1919; 3 Mar 1919 etc.
Accession Number: KO3015/08

 
Postcard sent to Miss Christy Addison, from soldiers, First World War.
Ypres, the Burning of the Cloth Hall. Postmarked Field Post Office, 25 Jun 1915.
Accession Number: KO3015/09

 
Postcard sent to Miss Christy Addison, from soldiers, First World War.
Belgium – For King and Country Dated 29 Apr 1916
Accession Number: KO3015/10

 
Postcard sent to Miss Christy Addison.
View of Middlesex Camp, Patcham, 1910. Postmarked Brighton, 24 Jul 1910.
Accession Number: KO3015/11

 
Postcard sent to Miss Christy Addison, from soldiers, First World War.
Apres La Bataille, Deux amis deux freres. Postmarked Field Post Office, 15 Apr 1915.
Accession Number: KO3015/12

 
Postcard sent to Miss Christy Addison, from soldiers, First World War.
General North View, Corbie (Somme). Postmarked Austwick, 19 Sep 1918
Accession Number: KO3015/13

 
Postcard sent to Miss Christy Addison, from soldiers, First World War.
Town Hall, Longpre-les-Corps-Saints (Somme) Postmarked Field Post Office 20 Feb 1919. From Sergeant H Shuttleworth
Accession Number: KO3015/14

 
Postcard sent to Miss Christy Addison, from soldiers, First World War.
Le Trocadero, Paris, France. Dated Saturday 10 May, French Postmark, but stamp removed.
Accession Number: KO3015/15



Postcard sent to Miss Christy Addison, from soldiers, First World War.
The Cathedral, Amiens, France.
Accession Number: KO3015/16

 
Postcard sent to Miss Christy Addison, from soldiers, First World War.
Campagne 1914-15 Ruines d’Ypres Fire of the Belfrey, 22 Nov 1914.
Accession Number: KO3015/17

 
Postcard sent to Miss Christy Addison, from soldiers, First World War.
Two members of the Divisional Concert Party. Card dated Sunday 19 Jan 1919. From Harry.
Accession Number: KO3015/18



Postcard sent to Miss Christy Addison, from soldiers, First World War.
Interior of the Markets after the Bombardment, Ypres. Postmarked Field Post Office, 11 Jul 1915.
Accession Number: KO3015/19

 
Postcard sent to Miss Christy Addison, from soldiers, First World War.
General View of Amiens, France. From Harry. Postmarked Field Post Office 3 Mar 1919.
Accession Number: KO3015/20

 
Postcard sent to Miss Christy Addison, from soldiers, First World War.
The Church at Abbeville. Dated 14 Feb 1919.
From Sergeant Harry Shuttleworth
Accession Number: KO3015/21

 
Postcard sent to Miss Christy Addison, from soldiers, First World War.
‘de connais ton ardent courage De l’ennemis brave la rage.’
Postmarked Field Post Office 10 Apr 1915, from Jack.
Believed to be Private John Cartmel, number 2085/240496, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Accession Number: KO3015/22


Photograph sent to Miss Christy Addison, from soldiers, First World War.
Private Leonard Thompson, number 2056, of the 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. Enlisted early Sep 1914. Overseas 14 Feb 1915. Died of wounds, 29 Apr 1915. Buried Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, France. Son of Jerome and Sarah Thompson of Edstone, Kirkbymoorside, Yorkshire.
Employed as a servant at Wennington Hall for seven years.
Photograph by W S Lealman, West End, Kirkbymoorside.
Accession Number: KO3015/23

 
Postcard sent to Miss Christy Addison, from soldiers, First World War.
‘A souvenir from France’ British soldier sat holding a letter thinking of his loved one back home.
Postmarked Field Post Office, 25 Jun 1915. From J W C.
Believed to be Private John Cartmel, number 2085/240496, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Accession Number: KO3015/24



Postcard sent to Miss Christy Addison, from soldiers, First World War.
Lake District Scene. Postmarked Keswick, 12 Feb 1916. From Jack.
Believed to be Private John Cartmel, number 2085/240496, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Accession Number: KO3015/25

 
Postcard sent to Miss Christy Addison, from soldiers, First World War.
Group of six soldiers (only five in uniform) taking a tea break.
Accession Number: KO3015/26

 
Postcard sent to Miss Christy Addison, from soldiers, First World War.
Sea Brow and Beach, Whitehaven. Postmarked Bootle Station, 25 Jul 1913. Dated Whitehaven, 24 Jul 1913.
Accession Number: KO3015/27


Postcard sent to Miss Christy Addison, from soldiers, First World War.
Christmas Card
Accession Number: KO3015/28


Photo of soldiers and nursing staff, First World War.
Accession Number: KO3015/29



Postcard sent to Miss Christy Addison, from soldiers, First World War.
Didcot Junction, Great Western Railway. Postmarked Didcot, 10 Sep 1914. From Private J Cartmel, 5th King’s Own, Didcot, Berks.
Private John Cartmel, number 2085/240496, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. Enlisted 2 Sep 1914. Overseas 14 Feb 1915. Discharged 19 Apr 1917 (or 14 Apr 1917 on Silver War Badge roll).
Accession Number: KO3015/30

 
Postcard sent to Miss Christy Addison, from soldiers, First World War.
Comic card: “Bill the honeymoon is over; the bride ’as ordered onions!”
Dated 18 Jul 1918,
Accession Number: KO3015/31

 
Postcard sent to Miss Christy Addison, from soldiers, First World War.
The Munitions Girl’s Toilet Postmarked ‘Grassington’
Accession Number: KO3015/32


Unidentified soldier of the 5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment mounted on a horse, probably Didcot, Sep 1914.
Accession Number: KO3015/33

 
Two unidentified soldiers of the 5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, possibly 1914.
Rear is marked “with love to Christie from L T, which suggests one of the two could be Private Leonard Thompson.
Accession Number: KO3015/34


Unidentified soldier of the King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, possibly 5th Battalion, 1914 or 1915.
Photograph by Fred Ash, Photographer, Blackpool.
Accession Number: KO3015/35



Postcard sent to Miss Christy Addison, from soldiers, First World War.
Lamberhurst, from the Old Hill.
Accession Number: KO3015/36



Postcard sent to Miss Christy Addison, from soldiers, First World War.
Eight members of the 5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, photographed at Didcot, Sep 1914. With tents to the background.
Postmarked 5 Oct 1914. “I am in the pink hoping you are the same with fondest love from Jack”
Believed to be Private John Cartmel, number 2085/240496, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Accession Number: KO3015/37



Postcard sent to Miss Christy Addison, from soldiers, First World War.
Soldiers of the 5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, Didcot, Sep 1914, meal time. Sat with tents to the background. Postmarked Didcot, 5 Oct 1914. “With love from Jack”
Believed to be Private John Cartmel, number 2085/240496, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Accession Number: KO3015/38


Photo of unidentified soldier of the 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment on horseback, Sevenoaks, late 1914.
Photograph by Johnston of Lancaster, (not marked) but numbered 373
Accession Number: KO3015/39


Postcard sent to Miss Christy Addison, from soldiers, First World War.
Unidentified soldier of the Army Service Corps, First World War.
Addressed to Miss C Addison, Folly Bank, Slyne, near Lancaster.
Could this be Sergeant Harry Shuttleworth, who transferred from the 1st/5th King’s Own to the Army Service Corps?
Accession Number: KO3015/40




Accession Number: KO3015/41




Accession Number: KO3015/42




Accession Number: KO3015/43




Accession Number: KO3015/44

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