Name/Title
StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0139Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is of a group of men in camp making a large amount of bread while others look on. Above the image "W130 (Star)" is printed, below the image "V18828 Making Bread for British Troops; Camp Scene, France." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company Copyrighted, Underwood & Underwood, Inc. Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
V18828
MAKING BREAD FOR BRITISH TROOPS, FRANCE
Making bread "wholesale" is the business in which these "Tommies" are engaged, a task as important as any in the army. The armies of the Allies had to have their "butchers, bakers and candle-stick makers" to provide for the great hordes of men at the front. Although a man might not enjoy baking instead of going into action, he must help his country in that way if that was what he could do best.
The long sticks with shovel-like ends which some of theses men hold are the tools that they use to draw the pans of bread from the cave-like Aldershot ovens used by the British army for baking. This oven is built on the plan of an ordinary bean-hole. It resembles a small tunnel, blocked at one end. A roaring fire is built inside, the coals raked aside, and the bread put in and the oven sealed up.
While working in a permanent camp of this sort, the British soldiers are allowed to dispense with their regulation leggings and wear their trousers after the fashion of the civilian. The Tommy calls this style "slacks."
This "somewhere in France" must be very near a big city, as you can see the spire of some large building in the distance.
Copyright by The Keystone View CompanyCollection
Photograph Collection