BIB_ID
419188
Accession number
MA 14126
Creator
Bigelow, Poultney, 1855-1954, sender.
Display Date
Newfoundland, 1900 June 21.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 9.5 x 13.9 cm
Notes
Date of writing from postmark.
Postmarked, with typed address: Major Gawne. The King's Own. / Junior United Service Club. / London.; with second and third lines of the address struck out, and "Wickham / Fareham / Hamps(?)" added in pen.
Possibly addressed to Major John Moore Gawne (1854-1900), of the King's Own Royal Regiment, who served in the Zulu War, India, Egypt, Malta, Hong Kong, Singapore, and South Africa during the Anglo Boer War.
Wriiten on an illustrated ship's postcard from the Norddeutscher Lloyd company, Bremen, with a chromolithographic image of the SS Barbarossa.
Postmarked, with typed address: Major Gawne. The King's Own. / Junior United Service Club. / London.; with second and third lines of the address struck out, and "Wickham / Fareham / Hamps(?)" added in pen.
Possibly addressed to Major John Moore Gawne (1854-1900), of the King's Own Royal Regiment, who served in the Zulu War, India, Egypt, Malta, Hong Kong, Singapore, and South Africa during the Anglo Boer War.
Wriiten on an illustrated ship's postcard from the Norddeutscher Lloyd company, Bremen, with a chromolithographic image of the SS Barbarossa.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Sending greetings "from off the Banks of Newfoundland", and wishing him good luck.
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