THE BRITISH HOME FRONT DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR.

Images in this album include: ‘A Yank at OCTU’ - following American soldiers of the Kings Royal Rifle Corps including photographs of a pay parade and a visit to Winchester, a series of cartoons by A Bertigliq(?) showing children dressed in uniforms of the German, Italian and Japanese armies defeating Britain (D 5492- 5496), series relating to Field Stores, Aldershot, including: wireless repair department, cine projector operators, engraving gun disc, typist, ATS secretary at Officers Conference, review rehearsal C Company, series of photographs relating to Mrs Slater and her 3 year old son Christopher at their Sussex home (Mrs Slater is the wife of Pilot Officer Frank Slater - see also album 27, D 5304 - D 5466), series relating to London AFS includes some black firemen (mostly portraits), including Fernando Henriques from Jamaica (D 5546) who won a scholarship to Oxford, later gaining a PhD and lecturing in ethnography at Leeds University, series relating to Holborn ARP, series of cartoons captioned ‘Electra House pamphlets’ mostly by E. Sachetti, Leading Aircraftman Thomas rehearsing his part in ‘Radio Reconnaissance’, portraits of New Zealand service personnel (army, navy and air force are presented), MP? at home, choir practice?, series of photographs of war savings posters in situ in Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square, series of photographs of American service personnel – electrical engineers or radio operators?, photographs of drinks reception attended by Santiago Bernardi, Jack Jones, Welsh miner-novelist-dramatist visits Pennsylvania Mine, Scranton, Pa., series of photographs showing air mail being loaded onto a motor launch to take onto a Catalina Flying Boat, series relating to Old Vic Theatre Company in South Wales, 1942 or 1943.