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Picture No 12183638
Date 1928
Description The British 'Red Army' at Leytonstone
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Commandant J. Snooks, who served during the First World War as a Lieutenant, and Mrs. Campbell, the Commandant of the Women's Section. The force was formed from the Labour League of ex-Servicemen, known as the L.L.Ex. Their uniform was reminiscent of the Russian Red army uniform complete with a Soviet badge and a device of hammer and sickle. Pictured at Leytonstone in east London, possibly on Wanstead Flats, where a demonstration took place in April 1928.
Source Unattributed photograph in The Sphere, 5 May 1928
Credit © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
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