Blighty > Christmas, 1917
(3) Page 2 - Bringing home the Xmas goose
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| Blighty and Sea Pie > Blighty > Christmas, 1917 > (3) Page 2 - Bringing home the Xmas goose |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74458934 |
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| Description | Cartoon by 'Poy'. This cartoon shows a British soldier kicking a captured German soldier on his bottom, while taking him to prison. The caption reads: 'BRINGING HOME THE XMAS GOOSE'. With Christmas decorations on his shoulders and head, this captured German soldier is the symbolic goose. The signpost reads: TO THE CAGES. 'Poy' was the pseudonym of P.H. Fearon, who worked as a cartoonist for 'The Evening News'. |
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| Description | A humorous weekly magazine issued free to the troops in the First World War; contained short stories, poems, cartoons, paintings and drawings, with contributions from men on active service. Distributed by the War Office, the Admiralty and the Red Cross, and subsidised through donations and sales to the general public. |
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| Shelfmark | 6.84 |
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| Description | Editions of 'Blighty' (1917, 1918) and 'Sea Pie' (1917-1919), First World War magazines with pictures, stories, poems and humour. 'Blighty' was sent free to the men at the front and in the fleet. Profits from sales of 'Sea Pie' went to help sailors and their families. |
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