Even in the middle of World War II
there was concern for the wasting of materials
Gerald Cairnes posted on 1/9/2002
I don't want to fill up you mail boxes with too much on this somewhat personal subject but I would ask you to look at an image of Dad holding his prize winning poster he did while in Cairo during the war, he was a strong advocate for conservation way bask when few others were thinking of it
Joseph Cairnes, with his prize-winning poster,
1944(?)
From the poster you will get the very strong
conservation and management message he was portraying and the no so subtle
consequences of the Army's future if they did not address these issues
closely. In war he saw great wastage of materials a lot of which he considered
unnecessary although he acknowledged the inevitability to an extent of
gross wastage of equipment and men in such a horrific process. As a matter
of interest which may provoke some questions, his facial injuries were
not war injuries but a "head to head" encounter with a large truck at speed
as a teenage cyclist. Plastic surgery in those days was very basic, they
used a portion of a rib to rebuild his nose.
