---
title: '''ATS: Cook for the Troops'' (British Auxiliary Territorial Service poster)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ats-cook-for-the-troops-1939/
description: A uniformed woman in a white cap and apron cuts rounds of dough in a kitchen beneath giant red letters 'ATS'.
section: Collection
---

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[!['ATS: Cook for the Troops' (British Auxiliary Territorial Service poster)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/ats-cook-for-the-troops-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/ats-cook-for-the-troops-1939.jpg)

# 'ATS: Cook for the Troops' (British Auxiliary Territorial Service poster)

A uniformed woman in a white cap and apron cuts rounds of dough in a kitchen beneath giant red letters 'ATS'. The line 'Great responsibility is borne by the ATS cooks' attaches a large virtue word to kitchen work without saying what the work involves or what the service offers.

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
COOK FOR THE TROOPS
ATS
Great responsibility is borne by the ATS cooks who serve our troops with nourishing food well cooked.
[ATS emblem, lower right]
[illegible: small print at the lower left edge]
```

Read from the committed image.

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