Photos of Admiral Jellicoe and Lord Kitchener

[XXX]

My great great uncle (Ernest Riley) went down on the HMS Hampshire along with Lord Kitchener after the ship struck a mine off the Orkneys. 737 men, including Kitchener, were lost altogether. Only 12 crew survived. I don't know if the cards were some sort of commemoration.

[Brewins girl]

That’s an interesting idea Sudoo.

[MaxD]

The postcard manufacturers would certainly have made special efforts with cards when the men died - vide:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/POSTCARD-MILITARY-LORD-KITCHENER-IN-MEMORIUM-1916/233403537773?hash=item3657ef596d:g:GIsAAOSwMkldoYzd  (not my spelling!)

although such cards had been being produced over a number of years once the men rose to prominence.

MaxD

[Brewins girl]

thank you MaxD - I've found both of the postcards on Ebay and although I've got originals (cut out to fit a photo frame by my grandmother or grt aunt) I decided to obtain unadulterated ones! I'll post an update when they arrived when they might possibly help to date them. It'll be interesting to see if they are indeed 'in memorium' cards

[Skoosh]

A programme about this a couple of weeks ago. A local farmer went over the cliff on a rope & rescued some sailors who were put to bed, there were more men at the cliff bottom but his rescue attempts were stopped by the navy & the men perished. Big question, why?

Skoosh.

[Brewins girl]

I don’t understand how the programme you described links to postcards of Kitchener or Jellicoe?

[XXX]

Mine was a poor idea having looked up a little on Admiral Jellicoe - he didn't sail with Kitchener and survived WW1.

I imagine Skoosh was following a train of thought in the way I was from the mention of Kitchener though it may not directly answer your original query. To go back to that it has always surprised me how much (often undeserved) deference was shown to those high up in society by those at the bottom in those days. I suppose they were the celebrities of their day. Very sadly their games didn't end in somebody being evicted from a house rather in the cost of millions of lives.

[Brewins girl]

Plus ça change!