Trafalgar Square, October 1918. In the last months of the First World War, London's Trafalgar Square was filled with a mocked up version of a French or Belgian war damaged village, as part of a campaign to sell War Bonds to "Feed the Guns" and aid the Allied war effort. The battle scene included a windmill, war damaged buildings, trenches, dugouts, shattered trees (built around lamp posts), a wireless station, camouflaged guns & mud

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