Summary

'The Flags that fight in Freedom's Cause' is a postcard from the Flags of the Allies. - no.10, The "Classic" All British Series, published by W.N. Sharpe Ltd., Bradford & London, during the First World War. The postcard is in unissued condition.

The firm of W.N. Sharpe Ltd published a series of patriotic postcards spanning the years of the Boer, or South African War (1899-1902) and the First World War (1914-18). Although the postcard is unissued and not post-marked, it depicts the four major allied countries during the early years of the First World War, Great Britain & Ireland, Belgium, France and Russia. America entered the war in 1917, following the sinking of the passenger liner, the Lusitania, by a German submarine, U-20.

Physical Description

First World War patriotic postcard titled 'The Flags that fight in Freedom's Cause' depicting the flags of the four major Allied countries during the early years of the First World War; Canada, Australia, Cape Colony and New Zealand. America entered the war in 1917.The postcard was published by W.N. Sharpe Ltd., Bradford & London.

Significance

Commercially printed First World War patriotic postcard published by W.N. Sharpe, Bradford & London, Great Britain. Such postcards provide an interesting insight into issues of patriotism, nationalism and empire in the final years of the British Empire in the early twentieth century.

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