Title

Packing socks for the troops, Westminster Palace Hotel, Westminster, London, 1915

Caption

Packing socks for the troops, Westminster Palace Hotel, Victoria Street, Westminster, London, 1915. Women of the Canadian War Contingent Association carrying out various activities like packing socks. The Association was formed by Canadians in Britain in 1914 for the benefit of the Canadian contingents fighting in WWI.

Date

1915

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England Archive

Reference

HRM19B05_307

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

56,2Mb (4,1Mb) / 16,3in x 13,4in / 4894 x 4012 (300dpi)

Keywords

road building buildings London England food female women woman people interior indoors working work fashion street country clothes British Canada Canadian lane avenue socks dress hotel war Westminster location century Britain inside packing first world war wartime lady concept sock B&W MONOCHROME volunteer volunteers World War I WWI black & white black and white B W World War One 1910s 20th century City of Westminster English Heritage 1st World War Home Front TGN Victoria Street war effort war work WW1 photograph H Bedford Lemere Bedford Lemere H Canadian War Contingent Association Westminster Palace Hotel photograph