Morale Collection (page 2)

Lunchtime on Tower Hill
The front cover of The Bystander magazine features two lorry drivers in Tower Hill, London enjoying a Brigade of the Guards band performance on their lunch-break. 1940

George Allison on River Patrol
George Allison, manager of Arsenal Football Club, carrying out a river patrol for the Home Guard. Note that he wears the armband of the LDV (Local Defence Volunteers)

Hugh Dalton, 1940
Hugh Dalton (later Lord Dalton), then Minister for Economic Warfare. 1940

Canteen in Blandford
The inside of a canteen in Blandford, Dorset, where women volunteers are dishing out food and tea to the troops. 1940

The Home Guard Protecting the Thames
Two members of the Home Guard chat to Colonel Burnell on a pleasure boat, now converted into a Thames patrol boat. Note that the men are wearing LDV armbands

Y. M. C. A. Canteen in Wiltshire
Soldiers in Codford St. Mary, Wiltshire, gathered outside a canteen, formerly a Womens Institute meeting-place and a barnyard. 1940

Ann Todd gives in her appliances for the war effort
Actress Ann Todd photographed handing in her spare household appliances to the local W.V.S. office in Berkshire. In 1940, Lord Beaverbrook, Minister for Aircraft Production

Soldier Given Tea from a Mobile Canteen
Sapper A. Kent is given tea from a mobile canteen by two members of the Womens Transport Service in Eastbourne. 1940

Mobile Canteen being unloaded
Mobile canteen being unloaded at Cooden Beach, East Sussex

Households Encouraged to Give Aluminium for the War Effort
Woman from the Womens Voluntary Services hangs up pans and kettles from the W.V.S. centre to encourage people to hand in aluminium items to aid the war effort

Loading a Mobile Canteen
Women loading an urn onto a mobile canteen in Brighton. Bananas and cakes can also be seen. 1940

War Planes Card Game
" War Planes is a new card game for teaching Jim Crows how to tell a friend from an enemy." The aircraft depicted on the card is a Boulton Paul Defiant. 1940

Cathleen Mann, 1940
Artist and costume designer Cathleen Mann, Lady Queensbury, alongside Rosaleen Forbes. Both women worked in the Mechanised Transport Corps during the War. 1940

Old Bill and Co. September 1940
" No, you were wrong, Bill! That wasn t another warnin you eard." Bruce Bairnsfathers cartoon makes light of the repeated air-raid warnings civilians were subjected to during the Battle of

Sailor at Y. M. C. A. hostel on The Strand
A sailor checks into the Y.M.C.A. hostel, formerly the restaurant Gattis on The Strand, London. Gattis was taken over by the Y.M.C.A. as a canteen for troops stationed in the city. 1940

Ravitailleuses delivering bread and comforts to soldiers
Women of the Red Cross delivering bread and other comforts to soldiers of the French Army as they travel to the Front via train

WW1 - Entertaining the Troops - Open Air Concert, France Date: 1915

WW1 - Eastern Front - Morale-Boosting Meeting for Russians - June 1917 Date: 1917

Bystander- Military officer collecting images of Gaby Deslys
A military officer, second in command, collecting images of the actress Gaby Deslys (1881-1920), as a way of improving the morale while fighting abroad. Date: 1916

French biplane dropping propaganda leaflets, WWI
How the French army contradicts German misstatements. A French biplane drops leaflets over German land hoping to prove to the German soldiers the falsity of the statements made to them by their

Countess of Warwick and her daughter, Mercy
Frances Evelyn Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick (1861 - 1938), society beauty, and mistress to King Edward VII. Pictured with her younger daughter, Lady Mercy Greville dressed entirely in white

Duncan Goodhew, British Olympic swimmer
Duncan Goodhew (b. 1957), British Olympic swimmer, seen here giving a demonstration to young swimmers at the St Clare Swimming Pool, Penzance, Cornwall

Raphael Kirchner
Portrayer-in-chief of Fair Femininity, and painter of " A Ducks Egg!" (see picture number 10223078). Raphael Kirchner (1876 - 1917), Austrian artist, best known for his pin-ups

Frontispiece, Sketch magazines stars messages to soldiers
A rather beautifully drawn frontispiece to a special supplement of The Sketch magazine introducing several pages of photographs of leading stage stars whose photographs were published along with a

Mouth organs for British troops, 1915
The British Army on the march with the help of mouth organs, donating in their thousands after an appeal, providing much needed entertainment

NFS (London Region) fire brigade display at Lambeth, WW2
During 1942 and 1943, 23 air raids occurred over the London Region, but they were light in character. The firefighters of the NFS needed to be kept in a state of constant readiness

Union Francaise Association Nationale pour l expansion moral

Keep em smiling! Help War Camp Community Service Morale is winning the war - United War Work Campaign. Poster showing three smiling men, a marine with his arms around a sailor and a civilian

Leaflet Raid at London Theatre, 1939
A shower of leaflets descending upon the audience at the London Palladium which was staging its first wartime revue, The Little Dog Laughed

Ten per cent more poster, 1948
Large poster with a personal message from Prime Minister Clement Attlee, asking the British public to put in maximum effort in to increase industrial production output by ten per cent

Sherman tank destroys nine Panther tanks
Poster entitled Battle Front Dispatch, containing a report from Winston Churchill of how one Sherman tank destroyed nine enemy Panther tanks outside Caen in Northern France during the Second World

WW1 Propaganda
A sinister, if rather coy, note from German soldiers to British soldiers during World War One." Dear Tommy, You are quite welcome to what we are leaving

No Mans Land notice
Hand written German notice in No Mans Land, Gommecourt Sector, May 1916

The Strafers Entertainment Troupe
Photograph of " The Strafers", a Pierrot entertainment troupe with the British Expeditionary Force in France during WWI

King and Queen at a Communal Centre during the war
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth pictured visiting a communal centre established in South London during the Blitz to provide meals for people who had been bombed out of their homes by German air

Queen Elizabeth making a wartime radio broadcast
Queen Elizabeth, later the Queen Mother (1900 - 2002), pictured making a radio broadcast speech to the women of the Empire in November 1939

Queen Elizabeth meeting bombed London residents
Queen Elizabeth, later the Queen Mother giving one of her gracious and charming smiles as she meets and sympathises with London residents in bomb damaged areas during the Blitz

Ney & Retreating French
Marshal Ney endeavours to keep up the morale of his men

Mobile army cinema
The Austrians provided their troops with a mobile cinema during World War I. One wagon carried an orchestra and one carried a light projector

Festival White Knight
The " White Knight" (with the morale raiser on his back) in the Lion and Unicorn Pavilion (symbolising British action and imagination respectively), at the South Bank Exhibition

Hens Thrown in Sea
During Punic War Two Roman admiral Claudius Pulcher, when the sacred hens used for divination won t drink, has them thrown into sea : his men lose morale, lose the battle

Patriotic American Girl
A young, blonde patriotic American girl in stars & stripes accessories of cap & scarf which is wrapped up high around her face. The flag livery is in reverse colours

French Military Band
Every French regiment takes pride in its band, whose music is heard both on the parade- ground and to sustain morale on route-marches

Battle of Valmy (Vernet)
BATTLE OF VALMY The French defeat the Prussians : the victory is a major morale-builder for the Revolutionary government

Ark of Covenant Seized
The Israelites take the Ark of the Covenant into battle with them, thinking it will be good for morale; but the Philistines capture it

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