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Posted 6 years ago
scottvez
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Another unusual WW1 era post card that shows a soldier holding his pet cat.
I don't have any idea on the subject or the location of this image.
AZO postcard backing on the image.
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Thanks bobby and newfld.
scott
SUCH a handsome tigger-kitty -- one has to wonder how in the world that soldier got him to stay still long enough to take the photo, its difficult enough *now* to get a good pic of a cat with a modern camera/phone?? <lol> One way or the other it'd seem the two were probably 'special' to each other. AWESOME IMAGE!!!
:-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
Thanks obscure-- it is one of the most crisp/ focused antique cat images that I have owned. Appreciate you looking.
scott
Thanks keramikos.
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Thanks malkey and 33rpm.
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Thanks again brunswick.
scott
I'm no expert on Militaria at all, but his hat looks sort worn by soldiers from New Zealand, popularly called a "lemon squeezer". So maybe this fellow was an ANZAC? There's a bridge in inner Sydney called the ANZAC bridge, commemorating the combined Antipodean forces from WW1 - on one side of the bridge there's an Aussie "Digger" in a slouch hat, & on the other side, a NZ soldier in a "lemon squeezer".
That's a fine specimen of an old school cat that he's so proudly holding, too. Cats in vintage/antique photos look notably different to modern cats, don't they?
Came with a group of US soldiers, so probably US.
In the US, the style is called a Montanna peaked hat. It became the official US Army headgear in 1911.
I didn't know that ANZAC troops wore the same/ similar headgear.
Thanks for looking and commenting ironlace!
scott
Thanks maiden and rade.
scott