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Christmas card featuring 6 gun on board battleship

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AuthorUnknown
TitleChristmas card featuring 6 gun on board battleship
NotesChristmas card featuring photograph of 6 gun (battleship emplacement) and several men standing ready to load/operate it. A right hand panel bears the printed message With Best Wishes for a Happy Christmas. The card may have been sent by Frank Harold Elletson, and the ship may be the HMS Queen Elizabeth, on which he served. Part of a collection relating to Frank Harold Elletson, Royal Marine Artillery. Date uncertain, but the collection is described as including: Diary [photo scrapbook] of HMS Queen Elizabeth, January to May 1915, plus photographs c. 1918.
Item Date1915 - 1918
Creation placeUnknown
File typeImage
Item sourcePostcard
Item mediumCard
ContentPostcard
CataloguerAlun Edwards
FilenameGWA_5660_DSC03132.jpg
CopyrightThe Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor
Digital repositoryThe Great War Archive, University of Oxford
Contributor NameMeriel Patrick (Ferrens Art Gallery, Hull submissions day 31st May 2008)
Contributed on the behalf ofBryan Elletson on behalf of Helen Elletson
Reference URLhttp://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/item/6601