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First World War Colour 'Daily Mail Battle Pictures' Postcard, Series I, No.7 Army Chaplin Tending British Graves

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c. 1915

Overview

First World War official colour postcard is Series I, No.7 from the, ‘Daily Mail Battle Pictures’ series, and depicts an Army Chaplin arranging stones around a gravesite and two (2) uniformed soldiers standing behind looking at other graves. At the bottom of card, in bold black print is,“7. Army Chaplin Tending British Graves / Official Photograph, Crown Copyright Reserved”.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-12-2025.6.19

Item type

Postcards

Themes

War and Conflict > World War 1

Material

Card

Width

137 mm

Height or length

86 mm

Weight

4 g

Inscriptions and markings

On front in bold black ink print, “7. Army Chaplin Tending British Graves”, and underneath, “Official Photograph, Crown Copyright Reserved”. Rear printed in black ink, “Passed by Censor/ Post Card / Daily Mail Battle Pictures”, and at bottom “Printed in England”. On left side, "Official War Photographs / Crown Copyright Reserved / Series 1. No. 7.", and, “An Army Chaplin is arranging a border of stones around a “Tommy’s” grave in a little field cemetery sacred to many pf our fallen heroes.”

Contextual information

This colour postcard is from Series I, No. 7, of the 'Daily Mail Battle Pictures' series, and forms part of the DENNEY brothers collection. The postcard series using Official War photographs were printed in England and are ‘Crown Copyright Reserved’. There are 176 numbered postcards, 22 series, with 8 cards in each series.

Keywords

WW1

Daily Mail Battle Pictures

Graves

Place made

United Kingdom

Year

c. 1915

Primary significance criteria

Artistic or aesthetic significance

Historic significance

Scientific or research significance