Munitions scandal, cartoon, WW1
A cartoon originally published in Reynold's Newspaper and reproduced in the Pictorial Politics column of The Tatler. A soldier in the trenches is being fed ammunition for his maxim gun directly from a munition factory via a tube. The caption reads, The Maxim of the Moment - Feed the firing line. A comment on the urgent need for increased munition production following the munitions scandal of May 1915, where it was revealed that British military failures on the Western Front were due to a lack of shells
Picture No
14096663
Media ID
45690229
Size
6415px x 4528px
(3.6MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Unattributed illustration in The Tatler, 7 July 1915
Date
1915
