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DescriptionCover 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.
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DescriptionA 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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DescriptionEditions 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.