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(19) Page 29 - Comforter
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Permanent URL	https://digital.nls.uk/74465642
Description	'The Comforter', by Corporal J.C. Walker, Royal Engineers. This cartoon shows a young lady reassuring her fiancé that she will remain true to him regardless of when his next leave is. The caption reads: Kitty (encouragingly, to her intended about to return to the Front): "NOW, JIM, DO CHEER UP; YOUR LITTLE GIRL WILL BE TRUE TO YOU EVEN IF YOU DON'T GET LEAVE AGAIN FOR FIFTY YEARS".

Form / genre:	Images > Pictures > Cartoons (commentary) Images > Pictures > Illustrations > Periodical Illustrations
Subject / content:	Couples Interior views Officers (military officers) Rooms Women Monocles
Person / organisation:	Walker, J. C., Corporal [Illustrator]
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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.