Poignant Collection

WW1 / C 1919 / POPPY FIELD
In Flanders Fields... The poignant scene of a field full of poppies after the First World War. (Illustration after original, image 10053676, by Willy Werner.) C.1919

British trooper meets French woman on the road to Lille, WW1
A poignant scene captured by the Sphere magazines special artist, Fortunino Matania showing a British trooper riding through a devastated French landscape and stopping to speak to a French woman

Royal wedding 1893 - Queen Victoria congratulates the bride
Princess May of Teck(later the Duchess of York, then Queen Mary)(1867-1953) receives congratulations from her husbands grandmother, Queen Victoria

Ww1 Wife with Medal
In a suburban home in the south of London a war widow observes the two minutes silence by reverent contemplation of her dead husbands medal

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Looking for news of you
The Caption is Looking for news of you. The card is from a young girl to her parents and was sent under cover with gifts. One of the presents was shaving cream for her father of which she says The

The harbour at St. Ives, Cornwall at low tide
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WWI - circa 1919 - Poppy Field
In Flanders Fields... The poignant scene of a field full of poppies after the First World War. Date: circa 1919

Three young women on a yacht at Cowes, Isle of Wight
Three young women standing on the deck of Mr Inglebys yacht Esperance in the Solent during the Cowes Regatta, Isle of Wight, dressed in almost identical outfits

WW1 - Brother, Sister and partners before outbreak of war
A poignant and touching photograph taken on the eve of the First World War as two couples (a brother and sister (far left and second from right)

Cartoon, The Angelus, WW1
Cartoon, The Angelus. A woman and her two children stop their work in the fields to pray, thinking of husband and father fighting at the front, as depicted in a cloud

Tatler cover - Soldier at Gallipoli with grave
A moving front cover of The Tatler magazine featuring the silhouette of a soldier at Gallipoli visiting the grave of a fallen comrade who had gone west. Date: 1915

Very poignant letter to his daughter - WWI
Very poignant letter to the daughter of the unknown letter writer - Miss Muriel Nibbs, 5 Woolley Terrace, Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire. Envelope is dated 23rd December 1916

Large mug - Bairnsfatherware
Large mug. Inscribed - My dug-out. A lay of the trenches. With four poignant poems reproduced around the sides of the mug. Very good condition. Bairnsfather Ware

Girl awaiting for Fathers return
A beautiful photograph of a young girl patiently awaiting the return of her Father, who has possibly serving in the British Armed Forces overseas

French Troops Off to War
A poignant scene, showing two young women saying goodbye to French soldiers as they march enthusiastically away to the Western Front

Evacuation / Mother & Son
A young mother and her son hold one another apprehensively as they wait for him to be evacuated

We ll Meet Again
WE LL MEET AGAIN A soldier and his sweetheart wave a poignant goodbye to one another on the music sheet of the song made famous by Vera Lynn

Shells Abandoned / Cambrai
A British soldier inspects a large haul of shells abandoned by the Germans near Cambrai during the offensive of 1917. Roofless houses provide a poignant backdrop

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