A member of the Wardens Service fitting a gas mask
Shortly after the Munich Agreement, a member of the Wardens Service (and his assistant - far right) - not yet issued with their uniforms - fit gas masks in the living room of a family in Sunderland. A typical interior scene of the period, on which the reproduction of Orchardson's picture Toasting the Bride in the oval frame casts an ironic comment
Picture No
13139745
Media ID
46111269
Size
3569px x 4799px
(9.8MB)
Credit
(c) The John Hinde Archive / Stephen Bourne / Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by John Hinde (1916-1997) in Citizens in War - and after by Stephen Spender - opp. p16
Date
circa November 1938
Pick your License
Fitting Grandmother Hinde Homefront Masks Sunderland Wardens
Features In These Collections
> Contributors > JHS
