Featured WWI Celluloid “Son In Service” Photo Frame

Picked this up at auction last evening

6x8” WWI Son In Service celluloid photo frame. In remarkably good condition, although missing the wire easel prop on the back

I really like the WWI Blue Star pieces, since the concept was only devised in 1917 during the War.

 

So sweet. Wonderful condition. And he was just a boy, wasn't he?

Debora

 

Handsome fellow. I hope he made it through and lived a long life.

 

Having 2 kids who have served with one still in, I have flown those many a time. They are still used today.

 

Much appreciation for your family’s sacrifices and your children’s willingness to serve

 

We thank them for their service.....

I have taken to wearing my lapel poppy year round.........
one day for those who serve............just not enuf !!!!

 

Thank you Jewelry Picker & Komokwa, hubby is also a vet. We are proud of any soldier who signs on that dotted line.Living in a non military town people would ring our bell asking me why are we displaying that (homeowners association) wanted me to take it down. I told them why & they still wanted it down. So, I told them unless you would like every reporter & politician I know, stop asking. It remained until they were home.

 

dunno if yer in a blue or red state......but I would like to come meet the folks who run your H O A........... & slap em around a little !!!!!!!!!!

good 4 U !!

 

I am a in Florida. Need I say more. You are always welcome to come & set them right. They are so aggravating. I have stories to make your head spin and spin and spin ….

 

Just remember who does not want fund our soldier/vets healthcare.

 

Ahhh, HOAs

Much like communism, the benefits of an HOA look great on paper, until the command structure inevitably gets drunk on its own power and insists on controlling every aspect within its grasp.

 

I have battled them. I was one of the first families to build. When the HOA was turned over to the residents one man wanted to ban school buses. That did not bode well for him. We chose the area as I knew new schools were to follow. I told him point blank we are not deeded senior housing to go & check the laws & perhaps since he stated kids playing disturbed him he should have chose 55+ rather than a family community. They are trying now to enforce fines on homeowners if a visitor speeds or blows a stop sign on our private roads.

 

it's good that you 'stand your ground'.......but not so much when a neighbour kills another...over kids playing in the yard !!!

 

In what state did you buy that touching artifact? You can see HERE (I hope), on Internet Archive, three Soldiers of the Great War volumes, with photos of the soldiers of WW1 (gathered in groups by state and usually in the second 2/3 of the books). Note that there may be, for example, a group of NY state soldiers in each of the three volumes. If you want to search for the identification of your young man, this will keep you busy for a bit.

If that very long link doesn't get you there, you should be able to find the books by Googling "Soldiers of the Great War" and "Internet Archive". (Cited from: https://www.antiquers.com/threads/wwi-celluloid-“son-in-service”-photo-frame.79078/)

 

I purchased it at my local weekly auction, during their military special sale night in Pennsylvania

 

It's wonderful. I have pins with photos inside that my grandmother wore when my mother and my uncle were in the Army during WWII. My brother was in Germany in the Air Force during the cold war. My husband is a 31 year Navy vet. My son decided to join the fire service in California. Too many people have no idea of the sacrifices made by those serving AND their families. I was a Naval Reserve Family Ombudsman for 11 years and we do next to nothing to support military families.

 

too bad McCain didn't get to be President.........he might have been able to help those who serve / served !!

 

Many of them were. And many even lied about their ages too to enlist! Girls too, not just boys!

My own father was just four days short of his 22nd birthday when he found himself on Sword beach on D-Day! He went ashore with a handful of other drivers to see if the armour could go ashore, though his regiment wouldn't actually land for another three weeks as a regiment. He was amongst those chosen because although just short of 22 years of age, he was already a veteran, having seen action at the Battle of El Alamein when he was just 20, then the Italian campaign at 21, and then Normandy. He'd go on to see action at Arnhem, when he was 22, then the Battle of the Bulge, and later would be amongst the first into Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, when he was still only 22 years old. We really cannot imagine the horrors that he and all those of his generation who were there, must have witnessed at that young age. What were we doing when we were 21 .............?? I certainly, thankfully, wasn't robbed of my young years like so many of our forbears were....

LEST WE FORGET!

 

Thank you for sharing the above. They enlisted as boys and were demobbed as men, weren't they? I just finished the most moving book about WWII. 'The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz.' The author was also in the North African campaign, a part of the war I knew very little about. Recommend if you haven't already read.

Debora