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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74465713 |
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| Description | 'The Final Test', by Sapper C. Marr, Royal Engineers. This cartoon shows a potential female recruit to the women's army trembling on a chair, having leapt there after the recruiting officer mischievously produced a large mouse or a rat as part of the entrance test. The caption reads: 'UNFIT.' British women played a massive role in the Allied war effort during World War I, and were, possibly, rewarded with the extension of the franchise in 1918. However, the cartoonist, Sapper C. Marr of the Royal Engineers, updates the old joke about women being afraid of mice, suggesting such a test could be used to determine which females are fit for active service. |
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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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