Source: File:
Advert - Harrods Military Boots. peg, [online] Available at: <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/12052424/Daily-Telegraph-December-20-1915.html>
Accessed: 20 December 2015].
In kitting out
the personal kit
For the officer,
were two styles
Of the latest
looking solid boots.
By recommendation
of top
London Store
sellers, Harrods
Of London SW, provided
proof.
Countless
frontline officers
Had purchased service
boots -
Apparently looked
to this house.
With reputation
and value, along
With high quality,
advertised two
Boot types, G.B.704
and G.B.705.
At 63/- the 704 'Canada'
Trench
And Transport boot;
water and mud
Resistant in
black oil dressed hide.
While the extra stout
oiled dressed
Hide, 705
Norwegian Ski boot came
In black
or brown, being made to order.
Advertised as
excellent beyond any
Doubt, for
£5.7.6.- any boot could be
Made to order and
ready in three days.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1915.
Advert - Military Boots. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 20
December. P.3. Col.6-7. Available at:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/12052424/Daily-Telegraph-December-20-1915.html
[Accessed: 20 December 2015].
Mann, J., 2015. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal
communication, 20 December 2015).
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