John Franklin Hardesty Postcards - n.d.
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[postcard] THOROUGHNESS "What time shall I call you in the morning, sir?" (Colonel Chutney, V.C., home on short leave, decides to keep in touch with dug-out life.)
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[postcard] THAT SWORD How he thought he was going to use it - -And how he did use it.
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[postcard] "THEY'VE EVIDENTLY SEEN ME."
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[postcard] OUR DEMOCRATIC ARMY Member of Navvies” Battalion (to Colonel). "I say, yer mate's dropped 'is cane."
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[postcard] THE TACTLESS TEUTON A member of the Gravediggers' Corps joking with a private in the Orphans' Battalion, prior to a frontal attack.
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[postcard] DIRECTING THE WAY OT THE FRONT "Yer knows the dead 'orse 'cross the road? Well, keep straight on till yer comes to a p'rambulator 'longside a Johnson'ole.
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[postcard] TROUBLE WITH ONE OF THE SOUVENIRS “ 'Old these a minute while I takes that blinkin' smile off 'is dial.”
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[Postcard] And to think that its the same dear old moon that 's looking down on him! "This blinkin' moon will be the death of us" "THE SAME OLD MOON" Her: "And think it's the same dear old moon that's looking down on him!" Him: "This blinkin' moon will be the death of us."
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[Postcard] "WHERE DID THAT ONE GO TO?"
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| Title | John Franklin Hardesty Postcards - n.d. |
| Creator | The Bystander |
| Source | The Bystander. John Franklin Hardesty Postcards. N.d. John Franklin Hardesty Papers, 1867-2007. A2293. Missouri History Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri. |
| Description | John Franklin Hardesty entered the U.S. Army Medical Corps and volunteered to serve as surgeon with the British Army during WWI. This was a series of 9 humorous postcards about WWI. his is a photograph of Joel Hardesty in uniform. |
| Subject LCSH | World War, 1914-1918--France |
| Subject Local | WWI; World War I |
| Site Accession Number | A2239 |
| Contributing Institution | Missouri History Museum |
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| Date Original | n.d. |
| Language | English |