Dan Godfrey dressed in Pierrette costume, performing for "The Timbertown Follies" at a prisoner of war camp in Groningen. Photographic postcard, 191-.

Date:
[between 1910 and 1919?]
Reference:
2060497i
Part of:
The James Gardiner Collection.
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view Dan Godfrey dressed in Pierrette costume, performing for "The Timbertown Follies" at a prisoner of war camp in Groningen. Photographic postcard, 191-.

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Dan Godfrey dressed in Pierrette costume, performing for "The Timbertown Follies" at a prisoner of war camp in Groningen. Photographic postcard, 191-. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

A scene from one of the many revues staged by some of the 1,500 or so members of the First Royal Naval Brigade, interned as prisoners of war in the camp outside Groningen, northern Netherlands, from 1914 to 1918, which they nicknamed HMS Timbertown. As they were not involved in any conflict and were housed in reasonable comfort with time on their hands, they were able to stage some very elaborate and professional theatrical revues which became famous back in the UK. This included pastiches of many of the revues and musical comedies produced in England at this time

Publication/Creation

[England] : [publisher not identified], [between 1910 and 1919?]

Physical description

1 photographic postcard ; 13.8 x 8.9 cm

Lettering

The Timbertown Follies, interned in Holland, "Mr. Dan Godfrey".

Notes

The following description was provided by James Gardiner: "Commercially produced postcard of Mr. Dan Godfrey, performing with the Timbertown Follies interned in Groningen 1914-1918. He is dressed in a Pierrette costume copied almost exactly from Pelissier's Follies, one of the most popular London companies at this time. Godfrey, being extremely professional in both dress and make-up, appears in many of the postcards of the Timbertown Follies."
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Wellcome Collection 2060497i

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  • Military, naval, and prisoner-of-war camp drag

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