Royal Navy Postcard: HMS Medina FC 1916-17 Football Team RPPC XT5573

This historic real photograph captures the shipboard football team of the Royal Navy M-class destroyer HMS Medina, proudly posing on deck alongside a ball inscribed "HMS Medina F.C. 1916–17". The uniformed sailors and officers reflect the vital role organized sport played in maintaining morale during World War One patrols in the North Sea and English Channel.

This is a standard size postcard which was published by Joseph W. Tidbury (Photo by H.M.S. Medina, T.B.D.). The postcard was made in the United Kingdom. This is an unused postcard.

This postcard has slight crease to the top left hand corner.


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