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(16) Page 37 - And after every successful engagement the bands always followed
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DescriptionBy Staff-Sgt J.C. Walker. This cartoon depicts a young man, wearing a suit and a monocle, sitting on a sofa opposite a glamorous young woman. The caption reads: 'Algy (back from Flanders): "AND AFTER EVERY SUCCESSFUL ENGAGEMENT THE BANDS ALWAYS FOLLOWED." / Doris: "HOW CHARMING! BUT OVER HERE, YOU KNOW, THE BANNS GENERALLY FOLLOW THE ENGAGEMENT TOO." (Engaged, according to plan.) The humour in this cartoon is based on a double meaning for 'engagement'. Algy seems to be using the word to refer to a successful military engagement, and the 'bands' he refers to are probably military bands who played to celebrate the victory. Doris, however, deliberately misinterprets Algy's sentence, so that 'engagement' becomes a pledge of marriage, and 'bands' becomes 'banns', a public proclamation of a forthcoming marriage.
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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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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.