A message written on rice paper is put into a container and attached to a carrier pigeon by members of 61st Division Signals at Ballymena, Northern Ireland, 3 July 1941. Frame:black Irish Guards wearing gasmasks advance

Irish Guards wearing gasmasks advance through smoke with 'tommy guns' at the ready

image: a variety of vegetables depicted in colour

in the top left and top right

image: a depiction of a small patch of cultivated land from which new crops sprout

A message written on rice paper is put into a container and attached to a carrier pigeon by members of 61st Division Signals at Ballymena, Northern Ireland, 3 July 1941. Frame:black Irish Guards wearing gasmasks advanceA message written on rice paper is put into a container and attached to a carrier pigeon by members of 61st Division Signals at Ballymena, Northern Ireland, 3 July 1941.