Burnley Pictures and Postcards

Young Kitchener - poem of appreciation

This postcard was published locally, printing a poem written by Pte. A Vickers in appreciation of a parcel he had received from "Little Kitchener"
Private Ambrose Vickers was not a Burnley man, born in Bunbury in Cheshire, he was a coach smith by trade. At the start of the war he was almost 40 years old, and not eligible for front line service

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Burnley Pictures and Postcards from the Great War
	Young Kitchener - poem of appreciation This postcard was published locally, printing a poem written by Pte. A Vickers in appreciation of a parcel he had received from "Little Kitchener" Private Ambrose Vickers was not a Burnley man, born in Bunbury in Cheshire, he was a coach smith by trade. At the start of the war he was almost 40 years old, and not eligible for front line service Back to Burnley in the Great War Next Page