Christmas card featuring 6" gun on board battleship
| Title |
Christmas card featuring 6" gun on board battleship
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| Author |
Unknown
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| Notes |
Christmas card featuring photograph of 6" gun (battleship emplacement) and several men standing ready to load/operate it. A right hand panel bears the printed message "With Best Wishes for a Happy Christmas". The card may have been sent by Frank Harold Elletson, and the ship may be the HMS Queen Elizabeth, on which he served. Part of a collection relating to Frank Harold Elletson, Royal Marine Artillery. Date uncertain, but the collection is described as including: "Diary [photo scrapbook] of HMS Queen Elizabeth, January to May 1915, plus photographs c. 1918".
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| Item date |
1915 - 1918
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| Creation place |
Unknown
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| Cataloguer |
Alun Edwards
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| Filename |
GWA_5660_DSC03132.jpg
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| Copyright |
The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor
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| Digital repository | |
| Contributor name |
Meriel Patrick (Ferrens Art Gallery, Hull submissions day 31st May 2008)
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| Contributed on the behalf of |
Bryan Elletson on behalf of Helen Elletson
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Collection
Citation
“Christmas card featuring 6" gun on board battleship,” by Unknown. The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor via First World War Poetry Digital Archive, accessed April 29, 2024, http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/item/6601.
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