More Info →Embroidered WWI Postcard

Description

This postcard comes from the Mackrell Archive. They came to be in possession of the Mackrell family by way of Huia Mackrell's wife, Doris Cammock (later Mrs Mackrell, of Woodville). They were sent by Doris' brother Frank while he was serving in the European campaign during WW1. He was killed at Passchendaele in 1917.

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

circa 1917

Digitisation ID

2016Pa_MackrellS3F1_012956

Format

Postcard