A Yesteryear Yuletide - The Ghosts Of Christmas Past

Here is a collection of old Christmas greeting cards, from 1902, through to World War One and World War Two.

We start off with a mention of the Edwardian Christmas post card featuring a man sitting in a parlour setting reading a book in a comfortable armchair, happy and contented for the Christmas season. Moving on to World War One (1914-1918) and a West Yorkshire Regiment, military Christmas card features, sent to a Quartermaster in the Bradford Pals Division. Then there is a Christmas card sent in 1917 from the Spenborough (Spen Valley) Forget-Me-Not Society, to a Cleckheaton family in West Yorkshire.

Moving on to the period World War Two 1939-1945) and there are two greetings cards furnished with pressed flowers drawn from Palestinian soil and sent during the Second World War by an RAAF (Royal Australian Air Force) service man, one being for to his wife and another for his mother. The array continues with the 1940 'Art Deco' Christmas card from RAF Compton Bassett, propping the RAAF Christmas Dinner Menu (complete with palm trees) from 1943.

• West Yorkshire Regiment
• No. 454 Squadron RAAF
• RAF Compton Bassett