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Boots - Comforts for Campaigners advertisement, WWI

Advertisement for Boots the Chemists and their various suggestions for comforts - gifts to send to men fighting at the front during the First World War. Items include vermin powder, a pocket air pillow, matchless tinder lighter, compressed medicines and water sterilizers. The top illustration shows soldiers entraining at a railway station surrounded by wooden boxes and crates of supplies

Picture No
11676999
Media ID
46899066
Size
3387px x 5260px (6.2MB)
Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Advertisement on the back cover of The War Budget, 2 December 1915
Date
1915

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Campaigners Comforts Crates Departing Jan17 Lighter Pillow Powder Tinder Vermin


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