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June Beale pours tea for her friends in the dining hall at Marchant's Hill camp school for evacuees, Hindhead, Surrey, UK 1944. June is the table monitor of the group. According to the original caption, her father is a Chief Petty Officer in the Royal Navy. The children are about to tuck in to bread and jam and an apple. IWM (D 21623)
Dolly Bennett (bottom left), and Winnie Bennett (top left), with Florence Simpson and a colleague at work on the production of Hurricane fighter aircraft at a factory somewhere in Britain. IWM (D 11126)
Winnie Bennett (left) and Dolly Bennett (right) at work on the production of a Hurricane fighter aircraft at a factory somewhere in Britain WW2. IWM (D 11129)
Mrs A Bowker (left) and Mrs Booth-Jones pack sticky bombs, already in their protective casings, into small cases at a factory somewhere in Britain. The handles are packed around the sides of these cases, which are then sent off to a filling factory for the explosives to be added.
STICKY BOMB: THE PRODUCTION OF THE No 74 GRENADE IN BRITAIN, 1943. IWM (D 14775A)
Original war time caption: 21-year-old Dorothy Crouch has a sailor boy-friend. She assembles nose and tail parts of the mortar bombs at J & F Pool’s No.1 Works Mortar Bomb Production & Testing at Hayle, Cornwall, England 1943. Image: IWM (D 12421)
Ralph Reynolds of Jacksonville, Florida, U.S.A. is seen here at work jacking up and servicing an R.A.F. van somewhere in England, Ralph is a member of the Civilian Technical Corps. IWM (CH 4491)
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