postcard, photograph, photograph
Accession Number
NAM.2008-10-33-2
Description
Postcard reproduction of a photograph depicting mainly members of the 48th (South Midland) Division and the West India Regiment received by His Holiness Pope Benedict XV at the Vatican, Rome, Mar 1919. Reverse reveals it was sent by the Rev Samuel Gosling, a padre, to the Rev Frederick Joseph Sandy, Procurator of St Mary’s College, Oscott, near Birmingham, for the College Museum.
Campaigns
World War One, Italy (1915-1918)