Christmas parcels for the trenches 1916
Army Post Office in Regent's Park, during the First World War One the post office was receiving a rate of half a million parcels for Christmas a day for the soldiers in the trenches. When this photograph was taken there was over 1, 600, 00 parcels in the hand for delivery before Christmas
Picture No
10217172
Media ID
47410183
Size
4299px x 6109px
(7.1MB)
Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Photographs in The Graphic', 23 December 1916, page 812
Date
1916
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