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Description: | The Merchant Navy was the fleet of civilian ships that transported food and supplies to the United Kingdom during and after World War 2. With this book of tokens the merchant seaman could buy the clothes he needed during journeys at sea. The Merchant Navy was regarded as the fourth service (after the Army, Royal Navy and Air Force) because the job was so important and so dangerous. Thirty thousand merchant seamen lost their lives between 1939 and 1945. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | living in the North East clothes war | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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