On the cards H M Bateman cartoon rationing WWI

Rationing was introduced into Britain at the end of World War One, February 1918. Conscience of the response to an effective U-boat campaign, to ensure that food shortages never occurred. This illustration by Henry Mayo Bateman depicts the confusion about positions and weights of food What is to happen when a bird is a couple of ounces under or over the coupons is the 2 oz to be cut off and wasted'. Also households where putting their rations together to get a bigger meal

Bateman Bigger Confused Confusion Coupons Households Introduced Keeper Mayo Meals Ounces Positions Prevent Rabbits Ration Rationing Rations Shortage Shortages Weights

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