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Description: | Concept: civilian morale, propaganda, radio, communications, military personnel, uniform, entertainment, civilian personnel, women / womens work, empire / commonwealth, colonies, flag / banner / standard Description: whole: the main image occupies the majority, with four smaller images positioned down the left edge. The title and text are separate and positioned in the lower quarter and down the left quarter, in black. All set against a white background and held within a brown border. image: a photograph of a group of British colonial soldiers gathered around a BBC microphone. The first of the small images is a photograph of a group of Jamaican women of the Auxiliary Territorial Service gathered around a microphone. The second small image is a photograph of two West African announcers broadcasting a radio programme. The third small image is a photograph of two Ceylonese announcers broadcasting a radio programme. The final small image is a depiction of a Union Flag. text: Volontaires de l'Armée Auxiliaire Féminine de la Jamaïque, dans un studio de la B.B.C. Indigène de l'Afrique Occidentale parlant, de Newcastle, Angleterre, à ses compatriotes. M. Hsiao Ch'ien (à gauche) et un Cingalais, M. J.M. Tambimuttu, speakers de la B.B.C. pour le service d'Extrême-Orient. LA B.B.C. No. 5 PAR LES ONDES A TOUS LES PEUPLES La B.B.C. fait un cordial accueil à tous ceux, hommes et femmes, des Dominions, des Colonies et des autres pays, qui sont venus en Angleterre pour l'aider à défendre la liberté; elle leur fait bon accueil pour deux raisons: Parce qu'ils peuvent, au microphone dire aux Anglais comment vivent les habitants des autres parties du Commonwealth, et parce qu'ils peuvent, grce au service d'outre-mer, raconter à leurs compatriotes ce qu'est l'Angleterre en guerre. Ici Subadar Lalbahadur Thapa, du 2ème King Edward VII Own Gurka Rifles, (Armée des Indes) décoré de la Victoria Cross, s'adresse aux Indes par la B.B.C. de Londres. POUR LA VICTOIRE G.P.D. 365/13/27 [A.T.S. from Jamaica, in a B.B.C. studio. A West African in Newcastle, England, broadcasting to his people. Mr. Hsiao Ch'ien (left) and Mr. J.M. Tambimuttu, of Ceylon, speaking in the B.B.C. Eastern Service. British Broadcasting Corporation: No. 5. On the air to the world. Men and women from the Dominions, Colonies and other lands who have come to Great Britain to help in the fight for freedom are welcomed by the B.B.C. for two reasons: They can come to the microphone to tell listeners in England something of the way of life in other parts of the Commonwealth; and they can, in the Overseas service, broadcast to their fellow countrymen the story of Britain at war. Here is Subadar Lalbahadur Thapa, 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles, (Indian Army) who won the V.C., broadcasting back to India from London. For victory.] Object: microphone, flag, turban, hat | Subjects: | poster | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Unknown | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=5165... | Go to resource |
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