Postwar Collection (page 8)

Cartoon, Little Red Riding Hood in a wartime version in which a little French girl encounter a German officer (wolf) hiding behind a tree. Date: 1919

Cartoon, Georges Clemenceau post-WW1
Cartoon showing the French statesman Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929) kissing and hugging his people, relieved that the war is over. Date: 1919

Music cover, Why Wasn t It Me? by Ramon Newton, Jimmy Campbell and Reg Connelly, featured and broadcast by Ramon Newton and the Savoy Havana Band. 1918

Music cover, Valse Mystique (Mystical Waltz), by Leon du Terrail, depicting the Egyptian Sphinx. 1919

Advertisement, Mars Bar -- compare the quality, compare the price. 1948

Page of a postwar leaflet about Germany
Page of a postwar reconstruction leaflet -- Germany under control, with three photographs of wheat harvesting for food, a classroom with teacher and children, and the reactivated coal industry

Two pages of a postwar leaflet about Germany
Two pages (front and back cover) of a postwar reconstruction leaflet -- Germany under control, with a map showing the British Zone, and statistics. Date: circa 1947

Berlin, Germany - postwar - French sector border post
Berlin, Germany - postwar - Sign alerting that you are leaving the French-controlled sector. Date: circa 1947

Berlin, Germany - postwar - American sector border post
Berlin, Germany - postwar - Sign warning that You are leaving the American Sector. Date: circa 1947

King George V and others at first Armistice anniversary
King George V and other royal mourners taking part in the first Armistice anniversary (first Remembrance Day), 11 November 1919. Date: 1919

Large group photo, Montecatini Spa, Italy
Large group photo of men and women at Montecatini Thermal Baths and Spa, Tuscany, Italy, on 17 August 1919. Date: 1919

RAF recruitment poster, Battle of Britain Show
Recruitment poster, Learn about life in the RAF at the Battle of Britain Show. Date: circa 1950s

Cover design, Laugh It Off Annual for 1945, bubbling with sparkling wit and humour. Showing a fun-loving young woman in a giant glass of champagne. Date: 1945

Two pages of a book, The Somme, Michelin
Two pages of a book, The Somme, Volume I, The First Battle of the Somme (1916-1917), published by Michelin, 1919, dedicated to the memory of Michelin workmen and employees who lost their lives

Title page, The Somme, Michelin
Title page, The Somme, Volume I, The First Battle of the Somme (1916-1917), published by Michelin, 1919, dedicated to the memory of Michelin workmen and employees who lost their lives

Book cover, The Somme, Michelin
Book cover, The Somme, Volume I, The First Battle of the Somme (1916-1917), published by Michelin, 1919, dedicated to the memory of Michelin workmen and employees who lost their lives

Rebuilt Cloth Hall, Ypres, Belgium
The Cloth Hall, Ypres, Belgium, meticulously rebuilt after it was damaged during the First World War. Date: circa 1940s

Vickers 27 Vimy Mk II -one of the 112 Vimy built and which provided stalwart service in post-war years

Royal Aircraft Factory SE-5E -around 60 of the Americanised version wre built post-war by Eberhart

Heinkel He 162A -captured examples of the type were tested post-war by both America and Britain

Group photo, British Army of the Rhine (BAOR), including Lieutenant Colonel Herbert Ernest Fooks (1888-?), front row, third from right. Date: 1928

Cartoon, Boche, Wild Mammal, WW1
Cartoon, Boche, Wild Mammal, on display in a zoo, an imaginary scene looking forward to 1956. Date: 1915

Poster, Buy National Savings Certificates
For your children, Buy National Savings Certificates. Date: 1920

Juan and Eva Peron visiting Spanish training ship
Juan Peron (1895-1974), President of Argentina, and his wife Eva (Maria Eva Duarte de Peron, 1919-1952) on board a visiting Spanish training ship, the Juan Sebastian de Elcano, 13 October 1949

Monument commemorating Zeebrugge raid, Belgiuim
Monument commemorating the three British ships and men lost in the Zeebrugge raid of 23 April 1918: HMS Vindictive, Iphigenia and Thetis

American minesweepers, Kirkwall Bay, Orkney, Scotland
American minesweepers and submarine chasers in Kirkwall Bay, Orkney, Scotland, 9 August 1919. Date: 1919

Captured German submarine as exhibit
Captured German submarine, UC97, launched in March 1918, surrendered to the USA in November 1918, exhibited in the US and Great Lakes to raise money for Victory Bonds

General Montgomery meeting cub scout, Netherlands
General Montgomery meeting a Dutch cub scout, watched by a crowd of spectators in the Netherlands. Date: 1945

General Montgomery meeting scout leader, Amsterdam
General Montgomery meeting a scout leader in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on 1 October 1945. Date: 1945

General Montgomery inspecting scouts, Amsterdam
General Montgomery inspecting the 4th Amsterdam scout troop in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on 1 October 1945, with Dutch scouts lined up on the right. Date: 1945

General Montgomery arriving at Amstel Hotel, Amsterdam
General Montgomery arriving by car at the Amstel Hotel, Amsterdam, Netherlands, on 1 October 1945, with Dutch scouts lined up in the background. Date: 1945

German boy scouts in British Zone, Germany

German boy scout in British Zone, Germany

German delegates listen to peace terms after WW1
The Fate of the German Empire. The German delegates listen to the reading of the Peace Terms. They are: Dr Melchior; Herr Leinert (President of the Assembly), Dr Landsberg (Minister of Justice)

General Foch in Victory Parade, Hyde Park, London
Victory Parade in Hyde Park, London. Showing the French General Foch on horseback, saluting King George V and Queen Mary, Queen Alexandra and Princess Mary. Date: 1919

British visitors spending money in Switzerland
Thats the way the money goes in Switzerland today: how British visitors spend their 75 quota. Date: 1947

President Wilson announcing birth of League of Nations
The American President Wilson announces the birth of the League of Nations, designed to avoid future wars. Date: 1919

French scouts with statue of Madonna and Child, Boulogne
French scouts with bare feet, carrying a statue of the Madonna and Child. They are returning it to the fishermen of Boulogne, from where it was removed for safety during the Second World War

French scouts boarding a train, Paris, France
French scouts with their backpacks, boarding a train at the Gare St Lazare, Paris, France. Date: 1947

English sea scout returning home from World Jamboree
English sea scout returning home from the World Jamboree, wearing a French sea scouts beret. He is Trevor Thomas of Staines, Middlesex, arriving back at Victoria, London

French boy scout at World Jamboree
French boy scout, Pierre Cadilhon, at a World Jamboree. Date: 1947

Boy scout at World Jamboree, Czechoslovakia
Boy scout, Vladimir Stochl of Czechoslovakia, at the World Jamboree. Date: 1947

Group photo of scout leaders, Fiji, South Pacific
Group photo of scout leaders and others during a camping trip, Fiji, South Pacific. Date: 1948

Armenian boy scouts at refugee camp, Egypt
Armenian boy scouts blowing cook house at the Armenian refugee camp, Heliopolis, near Cairo, Egypt. The camp was formed during the Egyptian Riots of June 1919

WW2 Poster -- ATS recruitment poster
ATS recruitment poster. Every member of the ATS learns a job that will help her to earn her living in the post-war world. Auxiliary Territorial Service

People We Don t Envy: No. 1: The first German salesman
People We Don t Envy: No.1: The first German commercial traveller in England after the war. An imagined senario featured in The Bystander in 1915

Magazine and news sheet cover, Khaki, WWI
Magazine and cabled news sheet cover, Khaki, No.1, March [n.d.]. Reproducing a recruitment poster after Frank Brangwyn, Your Friends Need You. Be a Man

Fire at construction site, Oxford Street, London
Fire at a construction site in Oxford Street, London, 14 February 1955. The building was under reconstruction following war damage

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