Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) postcard

• March 11, 2017 14:48:06 Cheryl Ellsworth

  Postcard with a green colored half penny stamp in upper right corner...

  Printed on the left side of the postcard:

  The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)

  is the oldest Highland regiment in the British

  Army, the name being derived from the sombre

  tones of the tartan and its old Highland name of

  Watch or Guard, being first used to keep watch

  in the Highlands. With all Scottish regiments

  it bears the St. Andrew's Cross as part of its

  crest. The Sphinx badge was won in Egypt

  in 1801.

  ...Printed up the left hand margin:

  1622

  Printed in England by GALE & POLDEN, LTD.,

  London, Aldershot, and Portsmouth. (Copyright.)

  ...Postmark

  RIPON

  7 15 PM

  23 MAR 17

  
  

  ...Address, right side

  Mrs Stanley Green

  "Nunroyd."

  The Mount,

  YORK

  
  

  ...Message, left side

  Dear Mu.,

  Am sorry to say 

  pass has not been 

  granted. Will 

  write tomorrow. 

  Yours, 

  Stanley 

• March 11, 2017 04:59:31 Cheryl Ellsworth

  Postcard with a green colored half penny stamp...

  Printed on the left side of the postcard:

  The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)

  is the oldest Highland regiment in the British

  Army, the name being derived from the sombre

  tones of the tartan and its old Highland name of

  Watch or Guard, being first used to keep watch

  in the Highlands. With all Scottish regiments

  it bears the St. Andrew's Cross as part of its

  crest. The Sphinx badge was won in Egypt

  in 1801.

  ...Printed up the left hand margin:

  1622

  Printed in England by GALE & POLDEN, LTD.,

  London, Aldershot, and Portsmouth. (Copyright.)

  ...Postmark

  RIPON

  7 15 PM

  23 MAR 17

  
  

  ...Address, right side

  Mrs Stanley Green

  "Nunroyd."

  The Mount,

  YORK

  
  

  ...Message, left side

  Dear Mu.,

  Am sorry to say 

  pass has not been 

  granted. Will 

  write tomorrow. 

  Yours, 

  Stanley 

  
  

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• February 28, 2017 23:23:29 Danielle Catalano

  Mrs Stanley Green

  "N[ ]"

  The M[ ]

  YORK

  
  

  Dear [ ]

  Am sorry to say 

  pass has not been 

  granted. Will 

  write tomorrow. 

  Yours, 

  Stanley 

  
  

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