The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
British Second World War poster issued by the Ministry of Food advocating frugality. This poster features the image of a plate with the remains of a meal and a stubbed out cigarette on it. Beneath in a red block is the message "Someone forgot that food costs lives". During the war, shortages of food were acute, so the British Government conducted an advertising campaign to alert people to the issue of food wastage. This series of posters link domestic practice with the front line, associating the private with the public war effort.
British Second World War poster issued by the Ministry of Food advocating frugality. This poster features the image of a plate with the remains of a meal and a stubbed out cigarette on it. Beneath in
British Second World War poster issued by the Ministry of Food advocating frugality. This poster features an image of a plate holding the remains of a meal and a stubbed out cigarette. Beneath in a re
British Second World War poster issued by the Ministry of Food advocating frugality. This poster features the image of a plate on which sits an unfinished slice of bread and butter with a cigarette st
British Second World War poster issued by the Ministry of Food advocating frugality. This poster features the image of a plate on which sits an unfinished slice of bread and butter with a cigarette st
British Second World War poster issued by the Ministry of Food advocating frugality. This poster features the image of a plate on which sits an unfinished slice of bread and butter with a cigarette st
British Second World War poster advocating frugality. In the centre of the poster is an image of a cleared plate and knife and fork, this is placed on a patterned tablecloth background. The title appe