WW1 era postcard of post office workers from Brighton, 28th Division Signal Company, standing next to the ruins of Ypres Cathedral, dated on reverse April 1915, 2nd battle Ypres, Western Flanders, Belgium
On the reverse of this postcard is written "Taken outside Ypres Cathedral, six Brighton postoffice boys attached to the 28th D. Sig. Co. April 1915." The card was published by photographer George Wiles of Brighton who published many real photographic postcards depicting wounded soldiers arriving at a hospital in Brighton - though it is not known whether he took this photograph. The Second Battle of Ypres lasted from April 22–May 25, 1915. In April 1915 at Ypres, the German's first used poisonous chlorine gas as a weapon, decimating two divisions of French and Algerian colonial Alamy reference 2BDA9C9 for photograph of female post office workers who took the place of postmen when they were sent to the front.
Size: 5000px × 7570px
Location: Ypres Cathedral, Ypres, Western Flanders, Belgium
Photo credit: © ThislifeThen / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: &, 1, 14-vbw1424, 1900, 1900s, 1914, 1914-1918, 20, 1915, 1916, 1st, 20c, 20th, ancestor, ancestors, archival, archive, archives, arms, belgium, black, bomb, brave, braveness, bravery, british, bw, camaraderie, cap, caps, cathedral, century, citizen-soldier, classic, clothes, company, comrade, comrades, conflict, conflicts, conscripted, conscription, conscripts, consript, damage, damaged, defence, defending, destroyed, duty, early, em, employees, enlisted, enlistment, fashioned, flanders, form, friends, friendship, general, gpo, great, group, groups, hat, hats, hero, heroes, heroic, historic, historical, history, image, images, job, jobs, male, man, mass, men, military, mobilisation, occupational, office, original, pastimes, people, photo, photograph, photographs, photos, portrait, portraits., post, postal, postcard, postcards, recruit, recruited, recruits, retro, ruin, ruined, ruins, serviceman, servicemen, signal, signals, social, soldier, soldiers, twentieth, typical, uniform, uniforms, vintage, volunteer, volunteers, war, warfare, warfaring, wars, wartime, wartimes, western, white, workers, world, ww, ww1, wwi, young, ypres
