60962: German postcard and photograph souvenired by George Powell

George Powell was a very small man and was enlisted into The Welsh Bantams. Being of a very young age when the war began he joined by stating he was older than his correct age. By the end of the Great War George had spent a year in hospital suffering horrific injuries. Editor's Comment: Presumably picked up from the battlefield as souvenirs. The postcard depicts German soldiers in a buring village and bears a Feldpost stamp to the reverse; the photograph is of a German signalling unit, with signalling lamp (Blinkgerät) on tripod. Private George Powell would have enlisted as a Bantam in the 17th (Service) Bn. (1st Glamorgans), The Welsh Regiment.