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A NAAFI mobile refreshment van serving the Queen's Own Royal Irish Hussars at Prai Railway Station, Penang, 1962

Photograph, Malaya, 1962.

The Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes (NAAFI) were created in 1921 to run recreational establishments needed by the British Armed Forces, and to sell goods to servicemen. It also ran clubs, bars, shops, restaurants and cafés for the troops.

One of 1276 photographs relating to the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes (NAAFI) and its predecessors, 1914-1997 (c).

NAM Accession Number

NAM. 2000-09-76-977

Copyright/Ownership

National Army Museum, London

Location

National Army Museum, Study collection

Object URL

https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=2000-09-76-977