postcard, photograph, photograph
Accession Number

NAM.2011-08-13-3

Description

Postcard photograph of Baldock Street, Ware, postdated 18 May 1915. George Havinden writes to his mother that his Company was allowed to visit Hatfield Park, the home of Lord Salisbury, ‘The house was lit up, so we could look through the windows. The place is furnished magnificently, never seen anything like it’. From a collection of postcards written by Pte George Havinden, 16th London Regiment, to his family during training and convalescence in England and from France, 1915-1917, also photographs of George Havinden with his family and his platoon, 1898-1952. Associated with World War One, Home Front (1914-1918).

Campaigns

World War One, Home Front (1914-1918)