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Attractive 4-page UK Military Christmas 1917 postcard from member of 14th Light Division.
Front cover with sword and wreath and banner 14th (Light) DIVISION
Inside front cover:
21:XII : 17
Best Wishes for Christmas & The New Year
From Albert Thomson To Titine
Inside back cover winter Image of soldiers walk their horses up hill, titled Telegraph Hill & Neuville Vitasse (Battle of Arras 1917).
Back cover has two plaques with engagements the Division has participated in
o 1915-1916 Ypres…Bull´s Road
o 1917 Arras…Inverness Copse
Publisher Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd.
Small tear at bottom, Some toning edges of back cover
10 x 12 ½
The 14th (Light) Division was an infantry division of the British Army, one of the Kitchener's Army divisions raised from volunteers by Lord Kitchener during the First World War. All of its infantry regiments were originally of the fast marching rifle or light infantry regiments, hence the title "Light". It fought on the Western Front for the duration of the First World War.
Battles
Second Battle of Ypres
· Hooge (German Liquid Fire Attack) – 30 and 31 July 1915
· Second Attack on Bellewaarde – 25 September 1915
Battle of the Somme
· Battle of Delville Wood – August – September 1916
· Battle of Flers-Courcelette – September 1916
Battle of Arras (1917)
· The First Battle of the Scarpe – 9–14 April 1917
· The Third Battle of the Scarpe – 3–4 May 1917
Third Battle of Ypres
· The Battle of Langemark – 22–27 August 1917
· The First Battle of Passchendaele October 1917
· The Second Battle of Passchendaele November 1917
