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A Liverpool pal tin soldier

I discovered this tin English soldier in a box of toys in the basement of my grandmother’s house in Portland, Oregon, USA. My grandfather had given it to my father and the latter had kept it among other toys. Because it was small, I decided to take it back home in Greece as a memento of my grandfather, who had died in 1949, several years before I was born.

I have placed it on my fireplace and mad…

Contributors

  • jones

Subject

  • World War I
  • Emigration from England
  • Immigration to the United States
  • Liverpool
  • Immigration to Greece
  • Portland
  • …
  • Family
  • United Kingdom
  • http://contribute.europeana.eu/contributions/453e1f20-fbab-0136-a15f-6eee0af43905#agent-453fe5d0-fbab-0136-a15f-6eee0af43905
  • Human migration

Contributors

  • jones

Subject

  • World War I
  • Emigration from England
  • Immigration to the United States
  • Liverpool
  • Immigration to Greece
  • Portland
  • …
  • Family
  • United Kingdom
  • http://contribute.europeana.eu/contributions/453e1f20-fbab-0136-a15f-6eee0af43905#agent-453fe5d0-fbab-0136-a15f-6eee0af43905
  • Human migration

Providing institution

  • Europeana Foundation

Aggregator

  • Europeana Foundation

Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)

  • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Places

  • Portland, USA
  • Athens
  • Liverpool
  • Athens
  • Attica
  • Greece
  • Liverpool
  • United Kingdom

Identifier

  • http://contribute.europeana.eu/contributions/453e1f20-fbab-0136-a15f-6eee0af43905

Language

  • en
  • eng

Is part of

  • Europeana Migration collection day, Athens, National Library of Greece, 2018-11-10–2018-11-10

Providing country

  • Europe

Collection name

  • 2084002_Ag_EU_Migration_ugc

First time published on Europeana

  • 2019-07-25T07:45:21.966Z

Last time updated from providing institution

  • 2021-11-03T11:22:04.772Z
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