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"Buttons men down the middle on the wrong side of them Molly darling he called me what was his name Jack Joe Harry Mulvey was it yes I think a lieutenant he was rather fair he had a laughing kind of a voice so I went round to the whatyoucallit everything was whatyoucallit moustache had he he said he'd come back Lord its just like yesterday to me and if I was married hed do it to me and I promised him yes faithfully Id let him block me now flying perhaps hes dead or killed or a captain or admiral" (U18.815)

A 19c. CDV of an officer in Gibraltar. OK, I'm imagining it may be Mulvey, but the place, the time, the blond boyish features fit nicely. The wrong-sided buttons are from a woman's perspective.