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(15) Page 33 - Au revoir with a parting gift
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DescriptionAdvertisement for the 'Ideal Fountain Pen' . In this advertisement, 'WATERMAN'S Ideal Fountain Pen' is marketed as 'An "Au Revoir" with a "Parting Gift"'. Pictured on the left is a soldier writing a letter with his trusty fountain pen. It is suggested that the pen is the ideal present for someone on active service, and will ensure that 'Whenever he gets the opportunity to write he will have the means at hand to do so'. The company advertising was called L.G. Sloan Ltd, and they were based at 'The Pen Corner', Kingsway, London.
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Summer, 1918
DescriptionThis 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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Blighty
DescriptionA 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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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.