An soldier in a concert party poses in drag, wearing white and holding a chair, standing in front of a train. Photographic postcard, 191-.

Yours sincerely C. Bull

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A young man in lacy tiered summer dress with a wide crowned hat. He has his face partly in shadow, with one foot on the chair, almost on top of the railway lines. Unlocated, but from the wooden hut in the background, he appears to be part of one of the innumerable concert party groups entertaing the Allied troops behind the lines in World War I. By 1916-1917 at least 80% of British and Dominion divisions and units had concert parties

Part of James Gardiner Collection: photographs of military, naval, and prisoner-of-war camp drag.

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Identifier: nc580m99d
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
Institution: Wellcome Library
Date Issued: 1910 to 1919?
Genre: Photographs
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Topic(s): Female impersonators
Resource Type: Still Image
Analog Format: 1 photograph : photoprint ;
Rights: Copyright undetermined
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