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LNER Magazine

July 1942

‘We regret to have to publish a further list of the names of members of the Company’s staff who have been killed in action …’

Vol.32 No.7
245x184mm
24pp

Roll of Honour

Home Guard notes

Railwayman’s insurance advertisement

By 1942 the companies’ magazines were publishing many items of war news, subject to censorship, both from the home front and overseas.

This LNER edition includes a Roll of Honour giving the names of those who had lost their lives, as well as a report of Home Guard activities.

One of the effects of the war was a paper shortage, because wood pulp could rarely be imported.

As a result, although pre-war editions of the LNER magazine had typically consisted of 80 pages, by 1942 the page count had come down to 24.

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