Frontier Gallery

Advert for Frontier by Joyce California shoes 1941

'Gallant and gay'. if yours is a border-line case of not knowing whether to buy on style or economy, we'd suggest you look at Cool-ees by Joyce. This Fronties model, for example, has a grand eye-catching swagger about it. What you don't see is the amazing amount of hard wear it will give; Joyce has scored a strategical victory for those whose taste outruns their income. Date: 1941

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Maginot Line fortifications by G. H. Davis

With 'Asparagus' anti-tank defences: Maginot Line fortifications at the start of the Second World War. A typical frontier work, with galleries within a hillside, leading to pill boxes, and details of machine gun posts and tank traps. Date: 1939

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Last British Troops Leave India

Burmah-Shell Photographic News Service photograph: Last British Troops Leave India.One of two photographs of Somerset Light Infantry, last British troops to leave India, Bombay, 1948. Photograph by Hunnar Ltd, .The Somerset Light Infantry on parade. In the background is the Taj Mahal Hotel. Following the independence of India and Pakistan in August 1947, British Regiments were gradually withdrawn from the subcontinent. This included a well-planned and orderly withdrawal from Waziristan and other tribal regions of the North West Frontier. The last unit to leave India was the 1st Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) which embarked at Bombay on 28 February 1948.
1948

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