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(1) Front cover - Shells Tommy likes
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Permanent URL	https://digital.nls.uk/91026972
Description	Cover illustration by Sproat. Set in a wintry landscape, this painting shows a smiling, pipe-smoking officer being bombarded with snowballs by a group of happy women and children. As this is the Christmas 1917, the officer is dressed in warm furs and has a sprig of mistletoe on his cap badge. Many covers of Blighty contained a central figure of a handsome, dashing soldier embracing an equally attractive female. Quite often, the soldier on the cover was an officer.

Form / genre:	Images > Design drawings > Graphic design drawings > Covers (Illustration) > Magazine covers
Subject / content:	Children (people by age group) Officers (military officers) Pipes (smoking equipment) Prices Women Snowballs
Person / organisation:	Sproat [Artist]
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Christmas, 1917
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Dates / events:	1917 [Date published]
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Blighty
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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.
Shelfmark	6.84

Form / genre:	Written and printed matter > Periodicals
Dates / events:	1916-1920 [Date published] World War, 1914-1918 [Date/event in text]
Places:	Europe > United Kingdom > England > Greater London > London (inhabited place) [Place published]
Subject / content:	Humor
Person / organisation:	Walbrook & Co. [Printer] Walbrook & Co. [Publisher] Committee of Blighty [Publisher]
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Blighty and Sea Pie
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.