Christmas card and envelope - Lieut Col Moon, 1916

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Item ST 43890 Christmas Card & Envelope - Lieutenant Colonel & Mrs Alfred Moon, Dec 1916

Summary

Christmas card inside envelope, sent by Lieut Colonel and Mrs Alfred Moon to soldiers serving in France in 1916.

Physical Description

Rectangular greeting card inside envelope. Card bears printed text on one side and handwriting on the other; envelope bears handwritten text.

More Information

Collection Names

Returned and Services League (RSL) Collection
Collecting Areas

Public Life & Institutions, Home & Community
Acquisition Information

Transfer from Victorian Branch, Returned & Services League of Australia Limited (RSL), circa 1986
Acknowledgement

From an original donation to the Returned Servicemen's League (RSL), Anzac House, Melbourne.
Place & Date Written

Sheffield, Stafforshire, West Midlands, England, Great Britain, Dec 1916
Place Used

France, Dec 1916
Inscriptions

Envelope, hand-written: France 1915. Road/Col. Moon Xmas Card 1916./Dookie. Col Vic. 1919 Front of card, printed: "Never a Christmas morning,/Never the old year ends,/But somebody thinks of somebody,/Old days, old times, old friends."/Christmas 1916./Lieut Colonel and Mrs Alfred Moon,/with all kind thoughts, wish you the compliments of the season [further text] Back of card, handwritten: Each one of us received one of these
Classification

Military history, Service, Correspondence
Category

History & Technology
Discipline

Technology
Type of item

Document
Keywords

World War I, 1914-1918, Christmas Celebrations

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Item ST 43890 Christmas Card & Envelope - Lieutenant Colonel & Mrs Alfred Moon, Dec 1916

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Inscriptions

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