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POSTCARDS - YPRES FRANCE WORLD WAR ONE

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c. 1919 - 1929

Overview

One of a collection of postcards taken after WW1 in Ypres, France. Black and white, split into two photographs one before and one after WW1. Pictures are of Burgomaster Colaert's house before and after the bombardment.Before house is large with many windows and a doorway and a street in front. After is a pile of rubble and some walls of the house still standing. White boarder along bottom with black printed text.

Historical information

These postcards were collected by Mrs Denholm when she was a child living in Ypres. She was born there after the end of WWI. They were a souvenir and a reminder of the town and its links to World War One. As a child she remembers listening to the last post being played every night as she went to bed. Because of all of the stories about the war that people told her, she used to have nightmares about being shelled in the trenches as a child. Her father Leonard Knox built and ran the first cinema in the town after the end of the war.
The postcards represent the interest people had in the Western Front either out of curiosity of seeing what had happened or because family and friends had served and may be buried on the Western Front. The post cards also represent people and communities looking at ways to rebuild their communities and using tourism to draw in people and money to help achieve this.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-33-COA2007.6D

Item type

Documents

Postcards

Material

Cardboard

Width

8.8000 cm

Depth

13.8000 cm

Themes

People

Social History

War and Conflict

Inscriptions and markings

on front[YPRES - Maison du Bourgmestre Colaert arant et apre's le bombardement./ Burgomaster Colaert's house before the bombardment and after.]

Keywords

Year

c. 1919 - 1929

Statement of significance

This object is part of collection with good provenance and interpretive potential that tells the story of the City of Armadale's connection to armed conflicts around the world from the late 1800s to today. The collection explores the experiences of people associated with the City of Armadale who went to war, their experiences when they returned as well as how these conflicts impacted the community who stayed behind.

Primary significance criteria

Historic significance

Comparative significance criteria

Interpretive capacity

Rare or representative

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