NAM.1992-09-138-16
Postcard with a handwritten name filled in, with the regimental badge top right and Allied flags top left, Nov 1916. From an album of 83 photographs and 2 archive items compiled by Tpr James Eckersley, Duke of Lancaster’s Own Yeomanry, Britain and Malta, 1914-1919.
‘Annsmuir Camp, Ladybank / Nov 1916 / Colonel Hardcastle and the Officers of the 2/1 D.L.O.Y. wish to record their regret at the loss to the Regiment of 1400 Pte/Tpr J Eckersley who has recently been included in a draft for service abroad. They are sure that in any duty to which he may be called, his behaviour will always bring honour to the Regiment in which he has been trained, and they wish him God-speed wherever he may go.’