Bathing luxuries at the front

Category

Library Item

Item no

32627

Title

Bathing luxuries at the front! A French soldier's douche

Description

From the Illustrated London News November 6th 1915.

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1915

Size

39.6 x 26.7 cm

Type

Press cutting

Location

Reference Library

Text from page 585 reads - As ingeniously contrived as one of the caricature machines in Heath Robinson's drawings! A shower-bath for French soldiers worked by a water-wheel in a little stream near the firing-line.

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