Moved by Conflict: Object 9: Sign, c 1915

This sign was hung in the front window of a house in Bedminster during the First World War. It was a way of telling the neighbours that a man from this family had enlisted to fight, and would have added to the pressure on other men to do the same. This sign was displayed by the family of Albert Henry Room, who joined up in 1915 aged 18. He served with ‘Bristol’s Own’, the 12th Battalion the Gloucestershire Regiment, in Italy. Albert returned home to Bristol after being demobilised in February 1919. (ref TD5401)