KIT FORRES

In Great Britain during the 1939 to 1945 Second World War food and clothing, along with many other essentials were rationed. Food prices were standardised and everyone, including the children, was issued with Ration Books containing coupons that had to accompany payment for food and other basic materials. While life was hard and it was a tough time to be a child, it is said that the nations health had never been better.


Just as during WW1, postcards of the era often reflect on the rationing and shortage regime. Some were took a comic stance, some a patriotic one. Attached are three postcards examples depicting patriotic children making the best of the situation, the postcard artist was Kit Forres.



A girl using a string shopping bag, paper being unavailable, finds that it helps her see what she has 'forgot to remember to get'. A young boy manages to avoid both the shortages and the queues by catching his own food and another boy dreams of better times to come.