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FIRE BOMBS ADVERTISEMENT: WORLD WAR II

FIRE BOMBS ADVERTISEMENT: WORLD WAR II

Wartime advertisement issued by the Ministry of Home Security from 1941 to bolster public moral during the bombing raids on Britain.From a series of albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, assorted ephemera and a diary, kept by Mrs Lucy Awdry of 14 Franconia Road, Clapham, for the duration of World War II and recording wartime life in London. During the war Mrs Awdry volunteered with the Women's Voluntary Service (WVS) assisting with fire watch duties, and also at the Clapham War Savings Centre. Included in the Lambeth Archives Home Front project 2005.
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Collection:Home Front Project 2005
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Ref:06695
Identifier:IV 169 Vol 10
Date:1941

#1926 - 1950  #Awdry Collection  #EMERGENCY SERVICES  #WAR AND ARMED FORCES