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(13) Page 28 - Little manoeuvre
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| Description | Cartoon by Sergeant-Instructor F. Beauvais. This charts the trials and tribulations of a tank instructor. Drawn by Sergeant-Instructor Beauvais, it is probably a fairly accurate representation of an initial training session. The caption reads: 'MUD - NOISE - AND A BEGINNER INSIDE. SOME IDEA OF THE TROUBLES OF A TANK INSTRUCTOR.' Tanks were developed and introduced by the British and French during World War I. They were first used at the Battle of the Somme on 15 September 1916, where they became bogged-down in the thick mud. Whilst initially unwieldy and unreliable, with refinements to the design, they were being used effectively as an offensive weapon by 1917. |
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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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