- Title:
- Members of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps in front of their Nissen huts, 1917 (c)
- Object name(s):
- postcard
- Brief description:
- Members of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps in front of their Nissen huts, 1917 (c). Photograph, World War One (1914-1918), 1917 (c). A Nissen hut was a prefabricated structure made from a half-cylindrical skin of corrugated steel. It was named after its inventor, Major Peter Norman Nissen of the 29th Field Company, Royal Engineers. Cheap and easy to mass-produce, Nissen huts were also portable. A hut could be packed in a standard Army wagon and erected by six men in four hours. One of four postcards from collection of Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps related items of E M Harrison.
- Collection:
- National Army Museum
- Associated concept:
- Archives
- Current location:
- National Army Museum, Study Collection
- Object name:
- postcard
- Object number:
- NAM. 1998-01-67-2
- Right type:
- National Army Museum, London
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