WW1 Propaganda Posters: Thrift! & Uncle Sam

 

 I really love the word 'Thrift', its rare I hear it these days and for that reason this poster from WW1 is being placed up! Encouraging people to buy stamps for the cause in this poster.

You cannot beat an image of Sam with a bayonet. Are they explosions in the background? fireworks? Another poster around the time of the first world war, bringing out national pride in America and encourage people to help out whichever way they can.

No postings!?

Moving house means no internet for a while and time to post. It will be back to normal posts around the 10th of may. Delayed until late May, wp sky Broadband.

WW1 Canadian Soilders: Flanders Fields

Canadian stretcher bearers in Flanders fields from 1915, around the time that army physician John McCrae wrote his now world famous poem In Flanders Fields.

WW2 Leningrad freezing cold

Citizens of Leningrad, Russia fetching water from a shell hole in Ostrovsky Square, 1 Dec 1941. I did say in my previous posts about Russian cities being so cold! 

The siege lasted 872 days from September 1941 to January 1944. The Siege of Leningrad was one of the longest, most destructive, and most lethal sieges of a major city in modern history. It isolated the city from most supplies except those provided through the Road of Life across Lake Ladoga, and more than a million civilians died, mainly from starvation. Many others were eventually evacuated or escaped by themselves, so the city became largely depopulated.