Wartime Barbering

Hair doesn't stop growing just because there's a war on, after all. 

© IWM (Q 19051)

The barber of the American Submarine Chaser Depot, WWI. Source

© IWM (Q 4029)

A barber of the Black Watch Regiment during the Somme, 1916. Source

© IWM (A 6223)

The ship's barber of the HMS Cochrane, WW2. Source

© IWM (Q 8676)

A haircut amongst the Howitzers, 1918. Source

© IWM (HU 68468)

A civilian barber at a German military camp during manouveres, 1904. Source

© IWM (Q 10549)

Engineer's Camp, Bayencourt, 1918. Source

© IWM (Q 4071)

A barber of the Indian Cavalry, 1916. Source

© IWM (Q 5850)

Barbers of the 2nd Leinsters during the Battle of Ypres, 1917. Source

© IWM (TR 1494)

A RAF barber in the Azores, 1944. Source

© IWM (CL 550)

RAF pilots get haircuts while waiting on standby, France, 1944. Source

© IWM (Q 18770)

The barber's shop aboard the Australian battle cruiser AUSTRALIA, WWI. Source

© IWM (C 88)

RAF barbers in France, 1939. Source

© IWM (BU 11910)

A recently released British POW has his hair cut by a Belgian barber, Tournai, 1945. Source

 © IWM (Q 18036)

A barber's shop in a British battleship, WWI. Source

© IWM (D 27761)

Soldiers of the King's African Rifles at their camp in Kensington Gardens, 1946. Source

© IWM (D 18520)

Soldiers get haircuts at the Glasgow Central Station before returning from leave, 1944. Source

© IWM (Q 18450)

A barber on the deck of an American destroyer, WWI. Source

© IWM (D 26755)

Barbers at an Italian POW camp in England, 1945. Source

© IWM (D 20128)

An American barber on a British beach, 1944. Source

 © IWM (E(AUS) 29)

A barber in billets behind the lines at the Somme, 1916. Source

© IWM (Q 10536)

A barber's shop interior, WWI. Source

US National Archives

American soldiers using a Japanese barber chair, 1945. Source