Pals – W.W. 1
“Pals” from a painting by Geo. Soper.
Colour postcard (one of a series) which explains the rehabilitation work of St. Dunstan’s and asks for contributions.
This one shows a blind man, a bandage over his eyes sitting in a green canvas deck chair,
his left arm round a collie dog, a walking stick in his right, with an army officer’s cap on the floor next to him.
The poem on the reverse reads;
I want no better pal than you, old boy,
It’s all the same to you that I can’t see.
There’s not a chum in all the great big world
To give me greater love and sympathy.
There’s some as don’t like dogs, the sort of folks
Who’d drop a tanner in a beggar’s hand,
As though an act like that makes up for ALL –
A dog’s devotion lets me understand.
Marie Lloyd – 1st March 1916
Marie Lloyd at the Savoy Hotel entertaining injured soldiers, 1st March 1919
“Taplow Hospital inmates”
An interesting postcard from an antiques and collector’s fair this morning “Taplow Hospital inmates”
It was I believe Canadian Red Cross Memorial Hospital built in 1914
at the invitation of the Astor Family on their Cliveden Estate.
Nurses and injured soldiers wearing their ‘convalescent blues’.
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