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And the band played "Amhrán Dóchais"

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  A rough translation of the typing at the bottom of the card would be "A party giving a welcome to the Chief Allenby who is giving medals to a small group of French Officers"!

• Suck Diesel said:

  a regiment salutes General Allenby, an Englishman, who has just decorated some French officers, a card from the First World War
  www.curyleiloes.com.br/peca.asp?ID=11384674&ctd=54&am...

• beachcomber australia said:

  Google Translate says,
  "Groups welcoming the Saxon Taoiseach Allenby, who has presented medals to a small group of French officials"
  
  Saxon ?!
  
  Allenby -
  
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Allenby,_1st_Viscount_Allenby

• beachcomber australia said:

  More information here in French; translation to follow. It is a street in Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise in March 1916. Decorations for French airmen ...
  www.cheminsdememoire.gouv.fr/sites/default/files/2022-04/...
  
  From - www.cheminsdememoire.gouv.fr/en/saint-pol-sur-ternoise

• beachcomber australia said:

  Translation of the French caption on the site above -
  
  "Parade of the 108th territorial infantry regiment in the streets of Saint-Pol - March 1916.
  These troops paraded on the occasion of the presentation of decorations to the pilots, Captain Turin and Corporal Daguesan by General Allenby and the commander of the 3rd British army"
  
  Edit - easier to see and read here (scroll through) - www.cheminsdememoire.gouv.fr/en/saint-pol-sur-ternoise