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Picture No 10822830
Date 1915
Description Cornishmen at the Central Recruiting Office, WW1
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Scenes outside the Central Recruiting Office in Whitehall where around 200 Cornish men had travelled to London in order to enlist under the Derby Scheme in 1915. Note the famous, 'Take up the Sword of Justice' recruitment poster either side of the entrance.
Source Photograph in 'The Sphere', 4 December 1915, page 265
Credit © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
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