Photograph, three Auxiliary Territorial Service cooks testing an oil drum oven in a field kitchen at the Corporal Cooks School, H Company, No. 2 London District Group, Caterham, 9 October 1942.
Official photograph, 1942
The drum oven can be used for baking or boiling.
Members of the ATS attended the School in order to receive promotion to the rank of Corporal. They attended the two week course and then, if they passed, they returned to unit to await an opening for a Corporal cook.
One of 420 photographs relating to the trades in which Auxiliary Territorial Service personnel were employed, 1939-1949.
Associated with World War Two, Home Front (1939-1945).