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(30) Page 46 - Can you catch the boat for Blighty?
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Permanent URL	https://digital.nls.uk/74461005
Description	This drawing is a military version of the traditional maze puzzles that often appear in magazines. The caption reads: 'CAN YOU CATCH THE BOAT FOR BLIGHTY? / Instructions: THE PUZZLE IS TO FIND THE LINE THAT LEADS TO THE SHIP IN THE CENTRE, STARTING FROM POINTS 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, OR 6.' The artist who drew this is not identified.

Form / genre:	Images > Pictures > Drawings Images > Pictures > Illustrations > Periodical Illustrations
Places:	Europe > United Kingdom (nation) [Place in text]
Subject / content:	Puzzles Soldiers Steamships Labyrinths Home (concept)
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Christmas, 1917
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Dates / events:	1917 [Date published]
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Blighty
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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.
Shelfmark	6.84

Form / genre:	Written and printed matter > Periodicals
Dates / events:	1916-1920 [Date published] World War, 1914-1918 [Date/event in text]
Places:	Europe > United Kingdom > England > Greater London > London (inhabited place) [Place published]
Subject / content:	Humor
Person / organisation:	Walbrook & Co. [Printer] Walbrook & Co. [Publisher] Committee of Blighty [Publisher]
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Blighty and Sea Pie
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.