Image: Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Canteen in London, England, 1941 D2173

Description: Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Canteen in London, England, 1941 After tea, a group of Royal Engineers help Patience 'Boo' Brand fill up the washing up bowl with hot water from the water urn. The Engineers have been building bridges across bomb craters on main thoroughfares and have just bought afternoon tea and buns from the WVS tea car (which can be seen behind them), run by Boo and her friend Rachel Bingham. This photograph was taken somewhere in London in 1941.
Title: Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Canteen in London, England, 1941 D2173
Credit: http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//40/media-40926/large.jpg This photograph D 2173 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums.
Author: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer
Permission: This photograph was scanned and released by the Imperial War Museum on the IWM Non Commercial Licence. The image was catalogued by the IWM as created for the Ministry of Information, which was dissolved in 1946. Consequently the image and faithful reproductions are considered Crown Copyright, now expired as the photograph was taken prior to 1 June 1957.
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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