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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 Description: whole: the three images occupy the majority, each held within a narrow black border. The badge of the Trinidad and Tobago 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 Trinidad and Tobago PRESENTED BY THE PEOPLE OF TRINIDAD and TOBAGO 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. Trinidad and Tobago 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, Trinidad and Tobago! Other war gifts from Trinidad and Tobago to Britain's war front include contributions for bombers, fighters, the British Red Cross Fund, the Lord Mayor's Air Raid Distress Fund, and other war funds. MISCERIQUE PROBAT POPULOS ET FDERA JUNGI 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=5130... | Go to resource |
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