Postcard with a signed photographic portrait of E.A. Godsell [Edward Alan Godsell] at Krefeld camp in Germany

Postcard with a signed photographic portrait of E.A. Godsell [Edward Alan Godsell] in Marconi Company uniform, dated 27 April 1917, by Samson & Co. Photographic Studio, Krefeld.

Edward Alan Godsell, born at Mallow, County Cork, Ireland, in 1898, was a wireless operator on the merchant vessel GEORGIC (1895), Oceanic Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., captured and sunk by the German raider MOEWE off Newfoundland on 10 December 1916. The portrait shows him outside a building at the Krefeld internment camp in Germany.

Record details

Item reference: HSR/G/10/5; REG24/000158.5
Catalogue section: Manuscript documents acquired singly by the Museum
Level: ITEM
Extent: 1 postcard
Date made: 27 April 1917
Creator: Young, James
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London