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58355: 3 soldiers relaxing under a tree

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posted on 2024-02-23, 22:59 authored by Great War Archive Project Team
<p dir="ltr">Postcard sent by Robert James Beadon to his mother, (my great aunt I think, I found this in a box of photos when my aunt died.) I don't know which of the three soldiers he is.</p> <p>It reads "This is how we are compelled to walk about owing to the heat, I don't know what it will be like when we get the other side of the Mountains 'Caucasus' as we soon shall be now"</p> <p>I think he must have been going to Mesopotamia because I found this on the the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website - <br> In Memory of Serjeant ROBERT JAMES BEADON <br> 79686, 6th Light Armoured Motor Bty, Machine Gun Corps (Motors) <br> who died age 29 on 15 October 1918. <br> Son of Robert James and Ellen Beadon, of 1, Brook Rd., Wood Green, London. <br> Remembered with honour BASRA MEMORIAL</p>

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8712.cpd| 2309.jpg|GWA_0270_Robert_Beadon_Postcard_Back.jpg 2310.jpg|GWA_0271_Robert_Beadon_Postcard_Front.jpg

Subject

Beadon, Robert James

Date

1917 - 1918

Date Created

01/01/1917

Temporal Coverage

31/01/1918

Source

Postcard

Medium

Card

Type

Postcard

Pages

1, 2

Number of Pages

2

Contributor

Stuart Lee | Diane Rayner

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The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor

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The Great War Archive, University of Oxford

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