Burnley Pictures and Postcards
from the Great War
Young Kitchener
- poem of appreciation
This postcard was published locally,
printing a poem written by Pte. A Vickers in appreciation of a parcel
he had received from "Little Kitchener"
Private Ambrose Vickers was not a Burnley man, born in Bunbury in
Cheshire, he was a coach smith by trade. At the start of the war he
was almost 40 years old, and not eligible for front line service
