Picture No | 10694815 |
Date | 1916 |
Description | War work for the elderly, WW1 |
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An old farm labourer in Essex returns to the plough to help in the war effort during the First World War. The gentleman pictured was nearly eighty years of age and had several sons in the Army.
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Source | Unattributed photograph reproduced in The Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News, 25 March 1916 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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