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(29) Page 45 - Lend me a franc, Tam
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DescriptionThis cartoon, by Horace Gaffron, shows two Scots soldiers in a trench arguing about the borrowing and lending of money. The caption reads: 'Sandy: "LEND ME A FRANC, TAM" / Tam: "NA, I CANNA DAE THAT." / Sandy: "IT'S A SMA' THING TO REFUSE." / Tam: "AY, BUT YOU WOULDNAE PAY ME BACK, AND THEN YOU AN' ME WAD QUARREL; SO WE MAY JUST AS WEEL QUARREL NOO, WHILE THE MONEY'S IN MY POCKET."' This cartoon plays on the national stereotype of Scots being mean. The cartoonist, Horace 'Jock' Gaffron, was a member of the Gordon Highlanders. While fighting at the Somme in 1916, he lost his right leg. Despite this, he lived until he was 103, and passed away on April the 15th 2000, at the British Limbless Ex-Servicemen's Home in Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland.
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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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