Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty

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Artist/Maker	Bamforth & Co. (printers and publishers)
Place of origin	England (printed)

A printed colour postcard of a photographic image of 4 WWI soldiers in a bunker with an antique record player. There are also two images of a soldier hugging a woman. The bottom of the card is printed with the lyrics of a song.

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Category	Photographs
Object type	Photograph
Title	Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty (generic title)
Materials and techniques	printed postcard Paper Printing
Brief description	Postcard printed by Bamforth & Co., 'Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty', coloured photograph on paper with text, ca. 1916
Physical description	A printed colour postcard of a photographic image of 4 WWI soldiers in a bunker with an antique record player. There are also two images of a soldier hugging a woman. The bottom of the card is printed with the lyrics of a song.
Dimensions	Paper height: 14cm Paper width: 9cm
Marks and inscriptions	'Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty. (1)/Jack Dunn, son of a gun, over in France to-day,/Keeps fit, doing his bit, up to his eyes in clay;/Each night, aftrer a fight, to pass the time along,/He's got a little gramophone that plays this song.' (printed, lower recto) 'HOLMFIRTH/BAMFORTH & CO., LTD, Pulishers/(ENGLAND) AND NEW YORK, SERIES NO 4753/3./PRINTED IN ENGLAND' (printed, verso)
Subjects depicted	War Soldiers
Place depicted	Europe
Literary reference	Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty, song by Arthur J. Mills, Fred Godfrey and Bennett Scott, 1916
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	267-1969

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Record created	January 4, 2013
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1259333/take-me-back-to-dear-photograph-bamforth--co/

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