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8th July 2022

This picture by Grace Golden is at the National Archives, it's  called 'Demobilisation' and is undated but is presumably 1945 or 1946. It all looks curiously clean and neat and almost jolly for a country that has been at war for six years but maybe that is an illusion.

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