Picture No | 10825334 |
Date | 1918 |
Description | YMCA appeal for more huts on Western Front, WW1 |
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Advertisement asking for donations towards more YMCA huts on the Western Front in order to provide shelter for the advancing British troops. The advert reads, 'our men are fighting in a country nearly bare of shelter, where the Germans have burned and destroyed everything possible.' Illustration shows troops stopping for refreshments outside a bombed and ruined estaminet which has a YMCA sign.
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Source | Advertisement in The Sphere, 31 August 1918 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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