NAM.2000-06-175-1

Embroidered postcard, 1916 (c); made in France 1916 (c); in envelope style, inscribed, ‘Happy Birthday’, below embroidered lilac flowers, green foliage and yellow swirls; inscribed in pencil verso, ‘Love & best / wished for a happy / birthday from / Bob / Miss. J. Caple / 21 Malifant St / Cathays / Cardiff’; containing a card entitled, ‘Tell her that/ I love her’, printed with a scene of a Tommie seated in a trench dictating a letter to an angel; associated with Robert Caple, 121st Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery and Miss Jane Caple OBE.

World War One, Western Front (1914-1918)