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(11) Page 25 - Wot sort of a place is this?
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| Description | Cartoon by Horace Gaffron. This cartoon shows a wounded British soldier arriving at a Scottish railway station. He has just disembarked from a Red Cross train and is talking to a porter. A nurse and a number of other wounded soldiers are also on the platform. The caption reads: 'Wounded Tommy (just arrived at Scottish station): "WOT SORT OF A PLACE IS THIS?" / Porter: "OH, NO SAE BAD." - " 'AM AN' EGGS FOR BREAKFAST REGULAR?" / "NA, NA! PARRIDGE AND MILK TO MAK YE BIG AN' STRONG." / "WELL, IT DON'T SEEM TO 'AVE DONE YOU JUSTICE, ANY'OW."' |
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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'. |
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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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