The Canaries April 1917

[MaxD]

Absolutely.  Privates as staff members?  Cooks and bottle-washers?  Who knows?

MaxD

[jim1]

Can we see the back?

[Paula42]

Hi Jim

Here is the back. It does not say much or even tell I should say.

Paula

[jim1]

Taken in the UK. The French had their own postcards & this isn't one of them.

[barryd]

Are they Isolated just as the door behind them indicates?

However not vey wise to take a photograph of so many "Isolated" men.


Another reference to the word "Canaries" in World War I is of those women working filling shells during the war who became ill due to the chemicals in the explosives.


http://www.messynessychic.com/2016/02/17/the-canary-girls-and-the-wwi-poisons-that-turned-them-yellow/

[jim1]

As there's a lack of NCO's in this it's possible they were in the UK on an instructor's training course (if there was any such thing) so armbands but no stripes yet.

[alan o]

Canaries was the WW1 slang for military trg instructors at depots.  They wore yellow brassrds or arm bands.