postcard, photograph, postcard
Accession Number

NAM.2015-11-50-126

Description

Photographic postcard sent to Brig Gen Lord Henry Charles Seymour, Grenadier Guards, from a French officer in the 201 Regiment of Infantry. Photograph captioned in French: 201 Regiment d’Infanterie, 14 Aout 1917. Le Général Petain, commondant en chef, décore le drapeau du Régiment de la fourragére (translation: 201 Infantry Regiment, 14 August 1917. General Petain, Commander-in-Chief, decorates the flag of the Forage Regiment). One item from a collection of letters and papers related to Brig Gen Lord Henry Seymour and his fiancée, later wife, Lady Helen Frances Seymour (née Grosvenor), daughter of the 1st Duke of Westminster, 1914-1944. Associated with World War One (1914-1918).