This picture of Sgt Burton, Royal Marine Light Infantry Battalion, and some other of his fellow POW’s is on a postcard sent to Miss Furminger of East Bottom Farm Kingsdown, the picture was also published in a German newspaper at the time.
The transcribed text reads:
‘No 10102 Sergt E Burton, Royal Marine Lt Infantry, 8/5 Barracks, Gefangsusa – Lagrs, Foressitc Deutschland.’
‘Miss C. Firminger, East Bottom Farm, Kingsdown, Deal, England, Kent’
Courtesy of D Price