C01008 Accession Number: C01008

Description

A German propaganda poster, 'England's needs', which purports to be a declaration by Winston Churchill, who was Minister for Munitions in the British government from 1917. It reads, 'I have had to diminish by hundreds and thousands of tons the supply of shells which the munition factories are ready to turn out, and which the artillery now require for use, but which we cannot send, owing to lack of shipping'. The poster shows the alleged number and positions of British ships torpedoed by the Germans, exclusive of all vessels sunk by mines, since 1 February 1917, during 'a 12 months uninterrupted U-boat campaign'.

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Accession Number
C01008
Photographer
Unknown
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Date Made
c 1918
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Lent by Colonel Millard
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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