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  • biscuit tin, Crawford's 'Hero Box biscuit tin, Crawford's 'Hero Box

    (souvenirs and ephemera) Made by: William Crawford & Sons, Ltd. 1914

    Early First World War period British biscuit tin bearing an overtly inspirational image of British infantry enduring, with good humour, the tribulations and muddy conditions of trench warfare on the Western Front.

  • Soldiers' Life in the French Trenches Soldiers' Life in the French Trenches

    (posters) Made by: Unknown (artist) 1914-11-27

    whole: the title is positioned in the centre third, in blue. The text is positioned in the upper third and lower third, also in blue. All set against a white background. image: text only. text: DAILY TELEGRAPH Saturday, November 28. SOLDIERS' LIFE IN THE...

  • Noeux Village, July 24th 1917, 9.30pm Noeux Village, July 24th 1917, 9.30pm

    (art) Made by: Rose, Geoffrey K (MC) 1917-07-24

    image: two figures sit under a tree in the right foreground, on the right side of a road leading into a French village. Buildings line the road to the left, with the tower of the village church looming up in the background.

  • The Queen's Hospital for Facial Injuries, Frognal, Sidcup : the carpenters' shop The Queen's Hospital for Facial Injuries, Frognal, Sidcup : the carpenters' shop

    (art) Made by: Lobley, J Hodgson 1918

    image: The interior of the carpenter's shop of the Queen's Hospital for Facial Injuries. Seven men, dressed in the blue suits of the hospital, are engaged in carpentry work at benches. Some of the men have bandages around facial wounds.

  • Buy a Christmas Present Buy a Christmas Present

    (posters) Made by: Unknown (artist)

    whole: the image is placed centrally, with the title across the top and the text along the bottom, both in black. All are set against a plain white background. image: a British soldier, standing right, meets an apparition of Father Christmas holding a...

  • Salvage! Every Little Helps Salvage! Every Little Helps

    (posters) Made by: Chilvers, S R (artist)

    whole: the image occupies the whole, with a smaller image positioned in the lower right. The title is integrated and positioned along the top edge, in brown outlined black. The text is integrated and positioned in along the bottom edge, in brown, and in...

  • Wounded passing through Snow Hill Railway Station, Birmingham Wounded passing through Snow Hill Railway Station, Birmingham

    (art) Made by: Lobley, J Hodgson 1918

    image: A scene at a railway station with walking wounded British soldiers and a nurse on the station platform, with a stationary train on the left. The men drink from white mugs and there is a food stall in the foreground.

  • The Staff Train At Charing Cross Station 1918 The Staff Train At Charing Cross Station 1918

    (art) Made by: Hayward, Alfred 1918

    image: A large group of military personnel are gathered on a train platform in Charing Cross station, with a stationary train at the platform beside them. In the centre foreground stand two British Army commanders, Henry Rawlinson and Herbert Plumer, who...

  • Keep on Sending Me OXO Keep on Sending Me OXO

    (posters) Made by: Dadd, Frank (artist) 1914

    whole: the image covers the whole, with the title integrated and placed along the top in black and red. Further text is also integrated and located lower left, in black. image: a British soldier sits writing a letter outside a ruined house. On the left...

  • memorial silk, British memorial silk, British

    (souvenirs and ephemera)

    First World War memorial silk commemorating the British Army service and death of (19154) Private Joseph Bowker (Border Regiment) who died of wounds in France (Western Front) on 10 August 1917.

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