Collecting dirty dishes at the Strand Corner House is the way some soldiers

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Collecting dirty dishes at the Strand Corner House is the way some soldiers

Collecting dirty dishes at the Strand Corner House is the way some soldiers and sailors are spending their leave in London.
Their meals are provided and they earn 1/Sd (one shilling) an hour.
Pictured in their military uniforms are AB John Gough, Newfoundland, and John Kelly, Combined Ops RN, also of Newfoundland, put in a days work chopping up potatoes.
Picture taken in peacetime, 17th January 1946

Wiggins
Daily Mirror
Mirrorpix
London
Greater London
England

Media ID 21905758

© Mirrorpix

1946 Chef Chefs Chop Chopping Cooking Kitchen Peacetime Potatoes

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