HISTORIC postcards sent by a Poole man during the First World War have been passed to Blandford Museum.

The eight embroidered cards were sent by Corporal Frank Savage while he served with the Royal Engineers on the Western Front from 1915 to 1917.

They were posted to his sister and mother and will go on show at the Market Place museum.

Deputy curator and archivist Michael Le Bas told the Echo: “They are quite beautiful.

“They are all greetings cards signed by him. One wishes a happy Christmas.

“We also have his wallet and a crucifix and a German coin.”

The cards show scenes of life in France and also in the trenches.

His daughter Betty Coleman, 89, of Tarrant Keyneston, who donated them, told the Echo: “He didn’t talk about his experiences, and I know a lot of men from the war didn’t either.

“He must have had a hard time.”

After the war Frank Savage lived in Hennings Park Road in Oakdale and worked as a carpenter.