#imperial war museum

© IWM (Q 57833) Lt.-Col. S.C. Byrne, O/C 1/11th London Regt., Medical Officer Lt. Christopher Searle, ¼th Northants, Lt. Heilgers, 1/11th London Regt. mounted on camels. El Burj, March 1917.

CLOTHES RATIONING: Not a bad idea

As the Imperial War Museum in London opens its exhibition on Clothes Rationing and Fashion in WWII, this excellent retro-modern advice (at 2.14):
“Ladies: you may be sure that every garment made with “Make Do And Mend” is entirely exclusive…”

But do listen to the Harrods lady with the startling diction to see what happens to 1940s man when we take our remaking seriously.

Flying Over the Desert at Sunset, Mesopotamia, 1919 by Sydney William Carline

fuckyeahwwiipropaganda:

Scarves printed in Britain with wartime motifs and patriotic slogans.

Via BBC NewsandIWM

Tommy Yeo-Thomas, the ‘White Rabbit’, first parachuted into France in 1943 at the age of forty-one. During the next year he twice more went back into the field but was eventually betrayed and ended up at Buchenwald. He survived the war by changing identity, having hatched a daring and collaborative plan with one of the camp doctors. Yeo-Thomas was later awarded the George Cross to add to his Military Cross and Bar. (Imperial War Museum)

Photo and caption featured in Setting France Ablaze: The SOE in France During WW II by Peter Jacobs