More Info →All Kind Thoughts, Embroidered WWI Postcard

Description

This postcard comes from the Mackrell Archive. This and others, came to be in the possession of the Mackrell family by way of Huia Mackrell's wife, Doris Cammock (later Mrs Mackrell, of Woodville).

The postcard was sent by Private Frank Harold Cammock, France, during World War One, to  his sister Doris. At the time he was in a convalescent camp after a gunshot wound in the arm. After returning to the front, he was killed in action 14 October 1917. Frank Cammock was a labourer in Woodville when he joined the NZEF "B" Company, 3rd Battalion. He died at 23 years of age and is buried at New Irish Farm Cemetery in Belgium.

The postcards in this series are all hand-embroidered, some of them have writing on the reverse, while others contain smaller decorated cards in the silk pouch on the front.

Identification

Object type

Postcard

Archive

Mackrell Papers

Date

August 4, 1917

Digitisation ID

2016Pa_MackrellS3F1_012958

Format

Postcard