Poem ~ Stout Boots for Officers - Monday, 20 December 1915

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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