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(20) Page 41 - With the Jericho Jocks, cont.
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| Blighty and Sea Pie > Blighty > Summer, 1918 > (20) Page 41 - With the Jericho Jocks, cont. |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74589480 |
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| Description | 'Jericho Jocks' by Private J. Brooks. Last four of a series of eight cartoons. These cartoons comically follow the adventures of one wounded 'Jock' being taken to a field hospital. In the first he is looking rather confused as two men struggle to carry him on a stretcher. He is then seen going towards 'THE OPERATING THEATRE', where he will have 'A FRONT SEAT AT THE PICTURES'. In the theatre he is injected with a very large and very sore-looking 'ANTI-TETANUS INOCULATION'. The final cartoon is entitled the 'GRAND CLIMAX' and shows the soldier in bed being offered something to eat by a nurse. These cartoons are the last four in a sequence of eight that were included in this edition of 'Blighty'. The first four show the events leading up to the 'Jock' being wounded. The cartoonist responsible, Private J. Brooks, was a member of the 2nd London Scottish Regiment. This special summer edition of 'Blighty' was made up of contributions from soldiers and sailors on active service. |
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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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