Picture No | 12688879 |
Date | 1939 |
Description | College boys returning to Eton with gas masks, Sept 1939 |
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Boys returning to Eton to resume their education after the Summer holidays, shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War earlier that month. Each boy carries a gas mask and wears a top hat.
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Source | Unattributed photograph in ‘The Sphere’, 30 September 1939, page 475 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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