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| Picture No | 11111950 |
| Date | 1940 |
| Description | C.J. Purnell Holding an Incendiary Bomb |
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C.J. Purnell, librarian and secretary of the London Library, slept on the premises throughout the Blitz. He here holds up an incendiary bomb that he was able to extinguish before it set light to the building.
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| Source | Unattributed photograph in The Bystander, 30 October 1940. |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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