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Description: | Concept: civilian morale, civilian effort, motor vehicles, artillery, eating / drinking, agriculture / food, empire / commonwealth, women / womens work, military personnel, civilian personnel, uniform, charities, comforts Description: whole: the three images occupy the majority, each held within a narrow black border. The badge of the Gibraltar colonial flag is placed in the lower right, held within a black circular border. The title and text are separate and positioned in the upper quarter and lower half, in black. All set against an orange background and held within a white and red border. image: the first image is of several women moving cartons of food from a warehouse, in order to load a mobile canteen. The second image is of the mobile canteen arriving at an anti-aircraft gun site, greeted by waving British soldiers. The final image is of two women, standing inside a mobile canteen, serving a group of infantrymen with cups of tea and food. Another woman distributes letters. text: YOUR MOBILE CANTEEN IN ACTION MOBILE CANTEEN M of F MINISTRY OF FOOD Your Mobile Canteens are filled with food and hot drinks and all the incidentals that the soldier or airman can want. It starts out on its journey. MOBILE CANTEEN Gibraltar PRESENTED BY THE PEOPLE OF GIBRALTAR TO THE PEOPLE OF BRITAIN M of F MINISTRY OF FOOD The canteen calls at many isolated posts: balloon barrage units and anti-aircraft gun sites. The arrival of the canteen is a bright spot in the men's day. Gibraltar M of [F] The men on duty in these lonely places take a few minutes off to drink hot tea or smoke a cigarette and hear the news. Often this is the only contact they have with the outside world during the long, lonely weeks between leave periods. Thank you, Gibraltar! Other war gifts from Gibraltar include contributions to His Majesty's Government for the prosecution of the war, 'Spitfires,' a W.V.S. Mobile Library, subscriptions to the Red Cross and St. John Fund, King George's Fund for Sailors, St. Dunstan's, Air Raid Relief, Aid to Russia, Red Cross and St. John Prisoners of War Fund, Merchant Navy Comforts Fund, Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Fund, and other war funds. MONTIS INSIGNIA CALPE PRINTED IN ENGLAND BY JOHNSON, RIDDLE and CO., LTD., LONDON S.E.20. 51-4976 G.P.D. 365/54 Object: truck, helmet, artillery piece | Subjects: | poster | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Unknown Printer: Johnson, Riddle and Co Ltd, Penge, London SE20 | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=5129... | Go to resource |
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