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An illustration of Charlie Chaplin as a wounded soldier, making advances to a pretty nurse, ca. 1918

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Back of postcard has section for handwritten note.
  • A White man (Charlie Chaplin) tugging on a White female nurse's headdress as he stands behind her.

  • Back of postcard has section for handwritten note.

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    Post Card
    [Postmark] Kampen 18. 1. 8N 1 1918.
    [Postmark] C. 3
    "At the front" series. Nursie dear! I want treatment. No. 195. Copyright. Printed and Published by Geo. Pulman & Sons. Ltd., London
    [Handwriting] Militair rue de Rou 2nd Comp J-BtH
    Fele graeten von Hendrik
    My Luon Leeuwen Steynlaan 1 den Haag

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    Post Card
    [Postmark] Kampen 18. 1. 8th 1 1918.
    [Postmark] C. 3
    "At the front" series. Nursie dear! I want treatment. No. 195. Copyright. Printed and Published by Geo. Pulman & Sons. Ltd., London
    [Handwriting] [from French] Military 2nd Company Street J-BtH
    [Handwriting] [from Dutch] The bones of Hendrik
    [Handwriting] [from Dutch] My Luon Leeuwen Steynlaan no. 1 the Hedge

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