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Description: | Concept: civilian morale, flag / banner / standard, industry, empire / commonwealth, civilian personnel, education Description: whole: the image occupies the majority, with a smaller image placed in the lower left, held within a blue circular inset. The title and text are separate and positioned in the lower fifth, in black. All set against a white background and held within a brown border. image: a half-length depiction of a Sikh Indian man, wearing a suit and tie, inspecting a piece of factory equipment. The smaller image is a Union Flag. text: ON WAR WORK IN BRITAIN: No. 1 A SIKH FACTORY INSPECTOR Besides her soldiers, fighting in Italy and other parts of the world, India supplies arms workers for the United Nations' ever-growing fight against Axis aggression. These young Indians come to the United Kingdom where they are trained as specialists, examined and then returned to India to apply their knowledge to their own factories. Mr. K. Singh, seen above, is being trained as an inspector. His home is in a village near Amritsar. For many years he worked in a flour and cotton mill, and held the position of instructor fitter in the Lucknow Loco Works for ten years. FOR VICTORY G.P.D. 365/13/21/1 Object: turban, industrial machine, flag | Subjects: | poster | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Unknown | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=5173... | Go to resource |
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