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WW1 Silk Postcards

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UBIQUE
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These WW1 silk postcards belong to a neighbour of mine and are what a member of her family sent home.Some have a card and silk handkerchief inside
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is there any field post marks on the reverse, i have 2 photo post cards my great grandfather sent from Ypres 1915, only 2 he sent home in the 4 years he was away.
 
Neat, never seen these. Are they made in France? I just bought these at a local fair, just because they were cheap. They are pre-IWW.
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is there any field post marks on the reverse, i have 2 photo post cards my great grandfather sent from Ypres 1915, only 2 he sent home in the 4 years he was away.

Didnt see any, what i could gather from the short personal messages on the rear these were sent by 2 members of the same family one postcard has 154 field coy Re and another end of war one has C coy 2nd yorkshire regt christmas 1919 (demob)
A few of the cards are sent from a father to a son who sadly lost his life in ww2 when the submarine (hms thames) he was serving in was sunk
 
Hi.. yes made in France..ive just had another look and theres several different formats saying made in france on the back of them..
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The airmen of IWW were equipped with parachutes made out of silk. Wouldn't using silk for postcards be seen as a waste of war materiel?
 
That's an award for WW2, the top brass said the airmen would fight better if thy crashed and burned with there planes, another example of Lions led by Donkeys.
 
Yes, it is an award for those who used parachutes to bail out successfully from a plane. My point was they used parachutes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caterpillar_Club
I copied this from Wikiperia
In 1911, Solomon Lee Van Meter, Jr. of Lexington Kentucky, submitted for and in July 1916 received a patent for a backpack style parachute – the Aviatory Life Buoy.[SUP][29][/SUP] His self-contained device featured a revolutionary quick-release mechanism – the ripcord – that allowed a falling aviator to expand the canopy only when safely away from the disabled aircraft.[SUP][30]
Also, silk was required for gun powder bags (coastal artillery) so it had to be a war materiel.[/SUP]
 
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