Wednesday 13 January 2016

Send More Soap

From the Halifax Courier, 8th January 1916.


From the Halifax Courier, 15th January 1916.


[Steel helmets were not issued to the British Army until later in 1916, so the scene of the soldier in a trench using his cap as a writing desk is not entirely fanciful.]  

3 comments:

  1. I doubt if even Pears soap could make a soldier in the trenches feel exhilarated! An example of when the streamline should have been abandoned.

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  2. Autocorrect went mad. "Streamline" should read "strap line".

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    1. I see what you mean, although I should think that when men weren't actually under fire, being able to wash themselves must have been important.

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