'Wings for Victory' poster
Date1943
Object NamePoster
MediumPaper
ClassificationsWartime
AcquisitionPresented in 2024.
LocationView by Appointment
Object numberABDMS095799
Keywords
This poster includes the dates 19th - 26th June, and its likely referring to 1943. A ‘Wings for Victory’ parade was held at Culter on 21st June 1943. 'The Sun News - Pictorial' - a Melbourne based newspaper - printed the following article on 21st June 1943: "Big British Savings. London. Sunday, AAP. - Speaking at Aberdeen in the Wings for Victory Campaign, the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Kingsley Wood) said that since the war began the small man had saved £2,150,000,000. This, he said, provided about 20 percent, of the Government's borrowing needs, and would mean much toward social stability after the war. More than £500,000,000 had already been subscribed in England and Scotland to the Wings for Victory campaign".
late 19th Century
1939-1945
Sir Stanley Spencer
