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Turnbull & Asser khaki puttees advertisement
Advertisement for khaki stocking puttees in medium and heavy weights from Turnbull and Asser, military and sporting outfitters

Lucie Delarue-Mardrus, writer, poet and traveller
Lucie Delarue-Mardrus (1874-1945)was a prolific poet and novelist, penning more than 70 books. As well as being married to a man for fifteen years

Soldiers marching in shorts in Wales, September 1939
British soldiers marching in Wales just after the outbreak of the Second World War. The Sphere comments on their bare knees and puttees but assures the reader of their spirit and ability

Gamages Royal Air Force uniform advertisement
Advertisement for the officers uniforms for the newly formed Royal Air Force in April 1918 From Gamages of Holborn, London. Date: 1918

Cartoon, The good trader. A salesman of food and other items offers a French soldier some Camembert cheese for a much lower price if he will say where the 20th Corps is

Advert for Foxs spiral puttees 1899
Foxs new patent spiral puttee, spiralling from the ankle to the knee. Date: 1899

Cartoon, Two French soldiers in a trench, WW1
Cartoon, Two French soldiers in a trench discuss the sending of gifts and mascots to the Western Front. (They themselves don t appear to have any.) Date: 1917

Cartoon, French and German soldiers, WW1
Cartoon, French and German soldiers. A French soldier sticks a bayonet into a German soldier, telling him that he has sung the socialist Internationale for twenty years

Cartoon, Family man, WW1
Cartoon, Family man. A middle aged French soldier reprimands a young German soldier for shooting at him. He says if he didn t have a boy of his age, he would give him a couple of slaps. Date: 1916

Cartoon, Holy France! WW1
Cartoon, Holy France! A middle-aged soldier tells his colleague about his son, who is almost grown up at fifteen. He says that if someone in his family has to take a hit

Housing poster, The Home I Want, with a quotation from Richard Reiss: You cannot expect to get an A1 population out of C3 homes

Cartoon, Enigma, WW1
Cartoon, Enigma. A French soldier says he doesn t understand it -- hes drunk nothing but Pinard (cheap wine or plonk) since the war started, and now hes got water on the knee! Date: 1916

Advert for Foxs Puttees 1914
Advertisement for Foxs Puttees, with the new non-fray patented spiral, declared, the best leg gear for sport. Of course, within months

Advert for khaki stocking puttees
Advertisement for khaki stocking puttees in medium and heavy weights from Turnbull and Asser. For use in Home Service when off parade, or at the Front when out of the firing line

World War One Training
British soldiers on rifle practice. They are all wearing puttees (cloth wound round the lower part of the legs to support the ankles and to keep dirt out of their boots)

Soldier with a bicycle. Date: 20th century

Boer War soldier in South Africa
George Coulson, Imperial Yeomanry, while serving in the Boer War, South Africa. He died of malaria on 7 June 1901. 1890s

Young man from Marlborough College in OTC uniform
Young man in Officers Training Corps uniform -- Albert Auerbach (1894-1918), when he was a pupil at Marlborough College. Date: 1910

Cartoon, Trader and French soldier, WW1
Cartoon, a trader claims to sell everything in his shop. A French soldier says: What if I offered to buy your wifes heart? The trader replies: That would be five sous

Cartoon, Two French soldiers, WW1
Cartoon, Two rather elderly French soldiers stand in the street, chatting about the possibility of winning the war. Date: 1916

Cartoon, Difficult extraction, WW1
Cartoon, Difficult extraction. French soldiers undertake some impromptu dental work for a colleague. Don t worry, old friend, we ll get them! Date: 1916

Cartoon, At the bistro, WW1
Cartoon, At the bistro. Two French soldiers chat with the bistro owner about their determination to win the war. Date: 1916

Cartoon, A sensitive man, WW1
Cartoon, A sensitive man. A group of French soldiers are sharing a bucket of Pinard (cheap wine or plonk). Do you know that our ancestors the Gauls drank mead from the skulls of their enemies

Cartoon, Sharing a drink, WW1
Cartoon, a French soldier and a British soldier share a drink of Pinard (cheap wine or plonk), enjoying a break from fighting. Date: 1916

Cartoon, The little English knife, WW1
Cartoon, The little English knife. A French soldier in a trench on the Western Front tells his English colleague that he is faithful to his Rosalie (the name for his bayonet)

Cartoon, Encounter, WW1
Cartoon, Encounter. A young soldier meets his uncle who seems younger than when he last saw him. The uncle replies that he was in the territorial army

Cartoon, Between two attacks, WW1
Cartoon, Between two attacks. French soldiers in a trench relax, eat, drink and play cards in a quiet moment on the Western Front. Date: 1916

Cartoon, Childhood memories, WW1
Cartoon, Childhood memories. An old soldier says he feels young again, invigorated by the fresh air of the Western Front. Another man says its more to do with the lice. Date: 1916

Khaki puttee footless stockings, WW1
Pattern for some khaki puttee hand knitted stockings to make for soldiers during the First World War to replace shop-bought puttees. Date: c.1915

Advert for Foxs Puttees military authorities 1914
Advert for Foxs puttees in 1914 asking for the indulgence of private clients should any delay occur in delivery because of the heavy demands of the military authorities. Date: 1914

Advert for Foxs puttees stockings 1916
Foxs puttees non - fray spiral puttees stockings. Date: 1916

Advert for Foxs spiral puttees 1902
Foxs puttees for men, comfortable support spiral wraps closely fitted from ankle to the knee, can be worn under your trousers. Date: 1902

The Practical Puttee, WW1
Humorous illustration depicting various uses for the puttee, the binding used by soldiers, and particularly officers, to keep warmth in and dirt out of boots during World War I. Date: 1915

Postcard, Czechoslovak Recruiting Office, WW1
Patriotic postcard issued by the Czechoslovak Recruiting Office during the First World War, showing a Czech soldier appealing to his fellow-countrymen living in America to join him

Advert for Foxs puttees stockings 1903
Foxs patent spiral puttees. Are so shaped as to wind on spirally from ankle to knee and to fit closley to the leg with even pressure without any turns or twists. Date: 1903

WWI officer on a hand drawn postcard by George Ranstead
A stereotypical view of a British officer in uniform, with breeches, puttees and monocle. Drawn by amateur soldier artist of the Great War, George Ranstead. circa 1916

Bai Jove by George Ranstead
Pen and ink drawing on a postcard showing a caricature of a typical British officer, complete with puttees, cane and eye glass

Putting on Puttees
A gentleman wraps his puttees round his legs, watched by his narrow-waisted wife

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