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(1) Page 20 - Special leave --- for urgent private affairs
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DescriptionSpecial Leave' by W. Smithson Broadhead. This cartoon shows a British soldier in uniform incling to kiss a young woman. The caption beneath the cartoon reads 'SPECIAL LEAVE - FOR URGENT PRIVATE AFFAIRS'. Europe's potential for providing soldiers with romantic liaisons was a popular theme for war cartoonists. The caption, which is probably based around a phrase used when soldiers were granted compassionate leave, contains puns on the words 'private' and 'affairs'. The soldier's is similar to that of the distinguished, dashing, slightly naughty characters played in films of the time by Douglas Fairbanks or Ronald Colman.
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November 1917
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Sea-Pie
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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Blighty and Sea Pie
DescriptionEditions 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.