Reggie Davies introduces the "Contented Penguins". First 'A' Sqdn Canteen Sign.
photograph, photograph
Accession Number
NAM.1975-03-63-1-39
Description
Photograph: Reggie Davies introduces the "Contented Penguin". First 'A' Sqdn Canteen Sign. Shows a sign with a penguin dressed as a serviceman smoking a pipe and holding bottles of alcohol, other empty bottles are discarded by his feet. Inscribed below, 'THE CONTENTED / PENGUIN'. From a photograph album containing 328 photographs compiled by Maj Wilfred Herbert James Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), 1938-1940. With captions taken from separate index volume. Associated with World War Two (1939-1945).
Campaigns
World War Two, Outbreak of War (1939-1945)
