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Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty

Photograph
ca. 1916 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Bamforth & Co. (printers and publishers)
Place of origin
England (printed)

A printed colour postcard of a photographic image of a WWI soldier in a bunker looking in a small mirror while shaving. A towel hangs over his left shoulder. The bottom of the card is printed with the lyrics of a song.

Object details

Category
Photographs
Object type
Photograph
TitleTake 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 a WWI soldier in a bunker looking in a small mirror while shaving. A towel hangs over his left shoulder. 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)/One day, Mickey O'Shea, stood in a trench somewhere,/So brave, having a shave, and trying to part his hair;/Mick yess (dodging the shells and lumps of dynamite)/Talk of the Cyrstal Palace on a firework night!' (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 referenceTake Me Back to Dear Old Blighty, song by Arthur J. Mills, Fred Godfrey and Bennett Scott, 1916
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
269-1969

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Record createdJanuary 4, 2013
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1259338/take-me-back-to-dear-photograph-bamforth--co/
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