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Savings bonds promotional leaflet, 1939-1945
Leaflet promoting the Second World War savings bond scheme.

The King visits the war workers, 1939-1945
Photograph of George VI visiting a naval workyard.

Soldiers at Galashiels Station, c 1916
Photograph of soldiers, a sailor and railway staff beside a steam engine, 'Redgauntlet', at Galashiels Station, Selkirkshire

Pig club poster, c 1940
'Save Waste and Start a Pig Club': Co-operative Pig Club poster issued by the Scottish Board of Education to help the war effort.

Women and tank, c 1918
Photograph of a group of mainly women gathered in front of a tank during the Scottish War Savings Committee's 'Tank Campaign Scotland'.

Children at gas works, Motherwell, 1918
Photograph of children in Motherwell gathered in front of a gas works house prior to its demolition by a tank as part of the Scottish War Savings Committee's 'Tank Campaign Scotland'

Tank in Scunthorpe, 1918
Photograph of tank, training number 141, tackling an obstacle built of sandbags and barbed wire in Scunthorpe.

Young woman in tank, 1918
Photograph of young woman in tank next to a group of other people taken during Scottish War Savings Committee 'Tank Campaign Scotland'.