Picture No | 10217172 |
Date | 1916 |
Description | Christmas parcels for the trenches 1916 |
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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.
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Source | Photographs in 'The Graphic', 23 December 1916, page 812 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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