53837: German postcard 'Sei getreu bis in den Tod'

Postcard depicting a wounded German soldier being visited by Christ, with the caption: 'Sei getreu bis in den Tod' ('Be loyal unto death'). Noted as 'Taken from a dead German'.

Part of the photograph and scrap album of Revd. Leonard Thomas Pearson, Army Chaplain's Department (attached No. 44 Casualty Clearing Station), discovered in a skip and deposited with the Bodlian Library. Revd. Pearson was interviewed by Lyn Macdonald for her book 'The Roses of No Man's Land', which contains two extracts and a photograph.