Name/Title
A Game of Rough-houseEntry/Object ID
2016x.27.32Description
A large group of small children swarming around and knocking down a soldier at a party sponsored by Canadian soldiers for evacuee children. Private Val A O'Sullivan is caught in the middle of the group being roughed up.
Canadian soldiers sponsored numerous parties to entertain children who had been evacuated from their homes due to the threat of air-raids.Photograph Details
Subject Person or Organization
O'Sullivan, Valentine AlbertSubject Place
* Untyped Subject Place
Surrey, EnglandCountry
United KingdomContinent
EuropeInscription/Signature/Marks
Notes
Verso, handwritten: "Party given by us for evacuee children / 24 May 1941/ About 300 attended and we sent down men to act as temporary 'fathers' "