Can't make this out - help, please

[Gadget]

Gadget, on that second pic you posted, second word, last letter, is that a tail?

I'm not sure but I think it's a mark caused by the texture of the postcard or the quality of the original image.  It just might be a 'y' though.

STG -  a good scan or a well focused closeup photo with more contrast would be best. We just need the part that has the writing. Also, are there any other examples  in  the writer's hand?

[SmallTownGirl]

> STG -  a good scan or a well focused closeup photo with more contrast would be best. We just need the part that has the writing. Also, are there any other examples  in  the writer's hand?

It's not my photo, so I have no control over it. I have asked for a version without the shadow over the writing,  but who knows what I'll get 😁

Edited to say:  The photo is somewhere in Australia, and, apparently, currently in a household under lockdown rules, so the person enquiring can't re-photographed until lockdown is over.  Hey ho! 

[SmallTownGirl]

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[SmallTownGirl]

Scanned version attached!

STG

[Forguette]

Thanks,
You don't know his identity, but you have insignia, and looking at the right hand side, looks like 1918 20years, 1920 22, not sure of line underneath that. So a birth year of 1898? and possible uniform identification. (Perhaps he didn't die in the war as suggested.)

[Gadget]

Thanks for the new scan. It's much clearer

I still think it reads

Can you own
this your father   -  or -   this our father  (with a sratched out letter before 'our')
in 1918 war

Gadget

[bermyboy]

What about ‘Can Sam own this (?.) your father in 1918 war’

[bermyboy]

Further thoughts. The style looks a little unusual, especially the s? of Sam and f? of father. May be a European hand?, and maybe written some or many years after the photo was taken. I wonder if it is worth posting the photograph. It might confirm whether it’s an Australian or British serviceman, or maybe from elsewhere.

[SmallTownGirl]

Further thoughts. The style looks a little unusual, especially the s? of Sam and f? of father. May be a European hand?, and maybe written some or many years after the photo was taken. I wonder if it is worth posting the photograph. It might confirm whether it’s an Australian or British serviceman, or maybe from elsewhere.

I'm told that the soldier's girlfriend was Scottish.  Does that, perhaps, help with the way the inscription is worded?  Assuming that it was her that wrote it, of course, but then that's yet another thing we don't know 

You'll have to take my word that the insignia shows that the soldier served with the British Army. 

Thanks for your help, everyone 


STG