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(7) Page 17 - You a bugler?
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Permanent URL	https://digital.nls.uk/74466455
Description	Cartoon by Tom Cottrell. This sketchily drawn yet eloquent cartoon depicts a parade ground of soldiers, all lined up. With his back to the viewer, a huge bull-dog of a Commanding Officer is jabbing the air with his stick. The soldier in front of him is just as big, but is portrayed as quaking a little. The text reads: 'New O.C. (who has been stirring things up and wants a new bugler, to dilapidated man who shuffles forward uneasily): "WHAT! YOU A BUGLER?" Dilapidated One (after deadly silence): "OH, A BUGLER? I THOUGHT, SIR, YER SAID A BURGLAR".' Buglers added the finishing touches to a polished parade ground display and were highly sought after. The main point though is about the system for recruiting soldiers and the type of men who gained admittance to the ranks.

Form / genre:	Images > Pictures > Cartoons (commentary) Images > Pictures > Illustrations > Periodical Illustrations
Subject / content:	Commanding officers Parade grounds Soldiers Buglers
Person / organisation:	Cottrell, Tom, 1890-1969 [Illustrator]
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Summer, 1918
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Description	This special summer edition was a selection of some of the best poems, stories and sketches submitted. A note at the back of the magazine informed readers that many of those chosen for inclusion had been written 'in the trenches and dug-outs, whilst the Hun shells are screaming overhead'.

Dates / events:	1918 [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.