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• Five Years in RAOC Trains an Unskilled Man for a Well-Paid Trade

  (posters) Made by: Unknown (artist) 1948-07

  whole: the image is positioned in the upper right, with the title separate and placed in the lower third, in white and in orange, held within a blue inset. The text is separate and located in the upper two-thirds, in blue and in black, and across the...

• ATS attached RAOC : Unloading a train at the depot siding at Ashford, Kent, 1944

  (art) Made by: Schmolle, Stella L M 1944

  image: trolleys are parked on the platform next to a train. In the foreground two ATS are struggling to carry a sack out of the nearest carriage and place it on the trolley on which one of the women is standing. Further along the platform three more...

• Recovery Stores at a RAOC Depot, Feltham

  (art) Made by: Hagedorn, Karl 1945

  image: A row of long, green corrugated iron sheds with their doors open. There are sacks and boxes of supplies outside each shed. The interior of the shed nearest the viewer is visible and we can see down the central aisle of boxes and piles of rope and...

• It All Depends on Me (recto) The Guns Depend on You (verso)

  (posters) Made by: Unknown (recto) & Keely, Pat (verso) (artist) 1939

  whole: The poster is double-sided. Side 1: the image occupies the majority. The title is separate and positioned in the lower quarter, in white and in black, set against an orange background. Side 2: the image occupies the whole, with the title...

• Tank Recovery during the Retreat to the Coast, France : June 1940

  (art) Made by: Seddon, Richard Harding 1940-06-01

  image: a damaged light tank is hauled onto a wheeled truck with ropes by British soldiers. The tank's tracks have been damaged and a section of one of them lies on the road in the right foreground. A large military truck is waiting for the wheeled truck...

• A Convoy Bivouac during the Retreat to the Coast, France : May 1940

  (art) Made by: Seddon, Richard Harding 1940-05-01

  image: soldiers setting up camp next to a large wooded area. Some are gathering wood while others have already set up low tents and shelters.

• Signalling HMS Bulldog from the Shore, near Veulette : 10th June 1940

  (art) Made by: Seddon, Richard Harding 1940-06-10

  image: a view of some British soldiers signaling from a beach to HMS Bulldog. The soldiers stand on an unusual white rock formation, the sunset casting long shadows across the beach.

• British and French Troops rescued by HMS Boadicea, near Veulette : 19th June 1940

  (art) Made by: Seddon, Richard Harding 1940-06-19

  image: British and French soldiers can be seen climbing up a net onto the deck of HMS Boadicea from a small rescue boat sailing next to the destroyer.

• The 50th (Northumbrian) Division, 1944: Officers of an Ordnance Field Park, RAOC

  (art) Made by: Gross, Anthony (CBE) (RA) 1944

  image: Officers sitting and standing around large tyres in a clearing in a wood.

• Safe! But Oh So Foolish - Better to Buy Savings Stamps

  (posters) Made by: Unknown (artist) 1945

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