wartime security poster, The Merchant Service is Silent too! Don't Talk About Cargoes or Ship Sailings
Report a Mistake- Object Number 20150206-001
- Event 1939-1945 Second World War
- Affiliation --
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Artist / Maker / Manufacturer
Morant, Nicholas
Wartime Information Board - Date Made --
- Category Communication artifacts
- Sub-category Advertising medium
- Department Art and Memorials
- Museum CWM
- Inscription (recto/recto)The Merchant Service is Silent too! Don't Talk About Cargoes or Ship Sailings/Photo by Nicholas Morant, N.F.B. ISSUED BY WARTIME INFORMATION BOARD, OTTAWA. Printed in Canada. WIB-3E; (verso/verso) Dear Mother: This poster is not liable to get so far inland so I am sending you a copy. Taken of me last winter when it was really cold. This was after the real bad trip and at the same time as the others you saw before. Love, Joe. / Joe Smith, Bell Block [and] Adam Smith CNR employee.”
- Medium ink
- Support paper
- Materials Not applicable
- Rank Chief Petty Officer
- Service Component Royal Canadian Navy
- Person / Institution Associated Military Personnel
- Measurements Length 62.0 cm, Width 46.0 cm