Embroidered postcards

Embroidered postcards

Military

These postcards are part of a much larger collection sent by John McCallum to his wife Mary from France during the Great War. They married in Ballachulish in April 1916, but six months later John was shipped off to fight on the Western Front. He served as a Sergeant in the 13th Battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Between October 1916 and February 1919 John sent Mary numerous postcards detailing his life in France. Embroidered cards like these were popular with the troops. They were made by local French women as a way of supplementing their income and sold to soldiers as gifts to send home. The postcards were gifted to the West Highland Museum in 2019 by John and Mary’s granddaughter.

French

objects,military

1916-18

eulac3d

English

Physical Object

111

16/12/2020

23/12/2021

West Highland Museum

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West Highlands Museum

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paper, thread