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| Blighty and Sea Pie > Sea-Pie > June 1917 > (5) Page 6 - What's your diet, Smith |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74466457 |
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| Description | What's your diet, Smith?' by W. Smithson Broadhead. This cartoon depicts a nurse carrying a clipboard standing over a soldier. He is sitting up in bed with a bandaged head and a thermometer in his mouth. The caption reads: 'SISTER: " What's your diet, Smith?" / SMITH: "Two sucks at this thermometer every day, Sister"' Bantering between soldiers and young women was a frequent theme in wartime cartoons, and the nurse-patient relationship was a common variation on the theme. Usually the soldiers were portrayed as quick witted and roguishly handsome, while the women were beautiful, sophisticated and clearly attracted to the soldiers. Such cartoons were one way in which the heroic image of British servicemen which the media was keen to promote, could be transmitted to the public. |
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| Description | 'Sea-Pie' magazine was founded to raise funds for authorised naval charities. The first issue appeared on 23 June 1917, priced one shilling. The magazine typically contained short stories, poems, cartoons, and paintings and drawings, often on a nautical theme. |
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| Shelfmark | 6.88 |
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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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