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Big shop on the Western Front renovates 30,000 pairs a week
Big shop on the Western Front renovates 30,000 pairs a week
This photograph shows men checking army boots before repairing them. The chalked tally on the blackboard lists the number of bags in each load and the dispatcher's initials. There appear to be a range of boots from the standard issue ankle boot to longer, cavalry boots. Over 45,000,000 pairs of boots were issued over the four years of the war, a reminder of the difficulties in supplying an army…
Contributors
- John Warwick Brooke
Type of item
- Monograph
- Monograph
- Photograph
Contributors
- John Warwick Brooke
Type of item
- Monograph
- Monograph
- Photograph
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Rights
- Available under Creative Commons license; Attribution, Non-commercial, ShareAlike
Issue date
- 2005
- 1914 - 1920
- 1914/1920
- 2005
Places
- Europe, France (nation )
Identifier
- 74547728
Extent
- 1 online resource
Is part of
- http://data.theeuropeanlibrary.org/Collection/a1219
Year
- 2005
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-04-06T12:16:27.984Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2016-05-31T08:45:20.658Z