Effort Collection (page 5)

A tally to show each year starting at the beginning of World War Two how many men who served or serving in the war effort. Date: 1944

A tally to show womens homefront effort in agriculture, local government service, public utility services and transport, shipping and fishing. Date: 1944

Ladies at a factory in Scotland keep munition works going at the weekend, lady seen on the left is Mrs Godfrey Collins, whose husband was Liberal Member of Parliament. Date: 1916

City of London handcart with scrap metal, WW2
WW2 - City of London Corporation handcart containing scrap metal, including bomb ordinance, Southwark Bridge, London. The cart also contains iron railings and general household metalwork

Duke of Kent and his children, 1940
Prince George, Duke of Kent poses with his son, Prince Edward, and daughter, Princess Alexandra, alongside a group of Canadian nurses. 1940

Gift from our Indian Empire. Calcutta ambulance cars
Photograph: Gift from our Indian Empire. Calcutta ambulance cars. From an album of 76 official photographs, 1916-1917. Associated with World War One, Western Front (1914-1918)

WW1 Poster, Thank them with War Bonds
Poster, Thank them with War Bonds. 1918

German propaganda poster, War Bonds, WW1
German propaganda poster, encouraging people to buy war bonds to support the war effort and sink enemy ships. 1914-1918

WW2 poster, Gloster Aircraft National Savings Group. Our aim is one fighter per month, for the next three months. Join the group, win certificates, and help win the war. Save now for your future

WW2 poster, Keep them both flying! Speed is vital! Date: circa 1942

WW2 poster, Join your savings group, now! Date: 1940

WW2 poster, Dig on for Victory, designed by Peter Fraser. Showing a man with home-grown vegetables and a gardening fork. Date: early 1940s

WW2 poster, Fight in the Streets, belong to your Savings Group. Encouraging people to support the war effort by investing money in National Savings. Date: early 1940s

WW2 poster, War Savings are Warships, designed by Norman Wilkinson for the National Savings Committee. Encouraging people to support the war effort by investing their money. Date: early 1940s

WW2 poster, Grow more food, dig for victory -- wanted 500, 000 more allotment holders, for plots of land apply to your council. Date: circa 1940

Douglas XB-42 Mixmaster -an overly complicated looking effort to mimic the performance of the DH Mosquito

Cartoon, K and His (Anti) German Garden, WW1
Cartoon, K and His (Anti) German Garden, showing Lord Kitchener watering his garden during the First World War to grow more army recruits ready for a spring offensive. Date: 1914

French poster advertising war bonds, WW1
French poster encouraging people to buy war bonds to help win the First World War. A soldier with his arm raised says: We ll Get Them! Date: 1914-1918

Queen Elizabeths Sewing Bee at Buckingham Palace, 1939
Members of the Palace household and wives of employees of the Royal Mews assembled in the Blue Drawing Room at Buckingham Palace for Queen Elizabeths Sewing Bee

Woman using a urinal - WW2
" I m doing a mans job ain t I?" A tall imposing lady World War Two Factory worker passes comment in reposte to the surprise shown at her appearance at the Gents Toilet urinals by a fellow

Alexandra of Hohenlohe-Langenburg with her children
Princess Alexandra of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg, Princess Ernst of Hohenlohe-Langenburg with her daughters and future son-in-law in 1915: (l to r) Princess Irma, Alexandra herself

WWI POSTER
American propaganda poster from World War One encouraging people to join up either in the army or in industries towards the war effort

Unformed full length image of the Maharajah of Gwalior
The Maharajah supported the war effort by providing a hospital ship and a convalescent home. His rewards were doctorates at Cambridge, Oxford and Edinburgh. WW1 Date: circa 1914

War Relief Fund stamp, WW1
War Relief Fund stamp, First World War - Fighting for Peace with Honour. 1914-1918

English toys during WW1 - English made war dolls
An female worker posed with war dolls representing the King, Lord Kitchener, Sir John French, Sir John Jellicoe and General Joffre. A selection of British-made toys during the First World War

Home Farm, Madresfield, Worcestershire, WW1
Home Farm, in the village of Madresfield, near Malvern, Worcestershire, during the First World War, where Lucy Auerbach spent three months doing agricultural work. Date: 1915

Southern Railway Firemen
Firefighters working for Southern Railway spray water onto the roof of a train. Southern Railway employed eighty A.F.S. men in order to fight fires caused by Luftwaffe incendiary bombs. 1940

H. H. Harris, 1940
H.H. Harris, a cartoonist and poster-maker of the time, sketches a serviceman on his tour of the Midlands. Harris toured the country in his caravan, pictured here

Taking Shelter in Piccadilly Circus Underground Station
Crowds seek refuge in Piccadilly Circus Underground Station during a Luftwaffe air raid. 1940

Makeshift Home Guard Tank
This jerry-built armoured car, fitted with a Sunbeam chassis and three machine guns, was the pride of the Berkshire Home Guard. 1940

A Mound of Aluminium, July 1940
In response to the appeal for aluminium from Lord Beaverbrook, Minister for Aircraft Production, families hand in their spare pots and pans to aid the war effort. 1940

Henry Willink, M. P
Henry Willink (1894-1973) in his capacity as Special Commissioner for the homeless in London, a role that was necessitated owing to the destruction inflicted by German air-raids. 1940

Sleeping in the Shelters, 1940
The Bystander depicts a range of different sleeping arrangements during night-time stays in air-raid shelters. On the top-left (Lansdowne House shelter) women can be seen resting on li-los, rugs

WW2 - Men Munitions Material - Australian First Day Cover - supporting the war effort, 15th July, 1940. Date: 1940

WW1 poster, Food, don t waste it
Poster, Food... don t waste it, US Food Administration. circa 1918

West Indies troops departing to serve in WW1
Three photographs from the Graphic magazine showing (left) troops from Barbardos sailing to Europe to serve on the Western Front (middle)

WW2 poster, Thanks for Your Help! Airman shaking hands with airfield workman, photographic poster printed for HMSO by Henry Hildesley. Date: circa 1942

WW2 leaflet, Warship Week, Win this Battle with the help of your savings. In support of the National Savings Movement and the Warship Week Campaign. Date: 1942

WW2 poster, Your planes and your work defend our Empire, with a newspaper article dated 22 January 1942, Hurricanes Fight At Singapore. Date: 1942

Certificate presented by The Overseas Club - Empire Day 1916
WW1 - Home Front - Certificate presented by The Overseas Club (now ROSL, the Royal Over-seas League) on Empire Day 1916 to Gertrude Knight

WW2 poster, Warship Week, Winston Churchill
WW2 poster, Warship Week, A message from the Prime Minister, with a portrait of Winston Churchill and a letter from him in support of the National Savings Movement and the Warship Week Campaign

Mrs Lakin as master of Wexford foxhounds during WWI
Mrs Lakin, acting in the absence of her husband, Captain M. L. Lakin D.S.O, who is at the front with the Hussars. Mrs Lakin was the daughter of the late Lord Maurice Fitzgerald of Johnstown Castle

WW1 - What did you do in the Great War, Daddy?
Child: " And is the War really over, Daddy? Father: " Practically, My Boy." Child: " Then may I ask you a question about it which I couldn t ask till it WAS over

WWI Poster, Appeal to cotton operatives
Appeal to Cotton Operatives. WWI Recruitment poster aimed at the men of the cotton industry to join up or make munitions, and for women to take their place in the mills. Date: circa 1916

Mittens and body belt, WW1 knitting, comforts for troops
Patterns for mittens and a body belt (designed to keep the midriff warm), two items of clothing which could be knitted for soldiers at the front featured in a Great War era knitting booklet published

Helmet with cape pieces by Marjory Tillotson, WW1 knitting
Pattern from a Baldwins knitting booklet during the First World War for a wool helmet with cape pieces to protect the neck and chest designed by the leading knitting expert

Weldons garments & hospital comforts, knitting booklet, WW1
Be useful in this time of war. Front cover of a Weldons booklet with instructions on how to make a variety of garments for soldiers and hospital comforts for wounded men

WWI Poster, The Key to the Situation
WWI Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster, The Key to the Situation, Munitions, Men and Money, are YOU helping to turn it? Date: 1915

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