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(5) Page 14 - Got any tea?
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Permanent URL	https://digital.nls.uk/74462323
Description	By Gunner W.A. Calman [or Carman?], R.G.A., this cartoon shows two soldiers in a grocer's shop. One of them is digging in his pocket, presumably for change, whilst the grocer looks on, quite unenthusiastic and dejected. The text reads: '"GOT ANY TEA?" -- "NO." / "SUGAR?" -- "NO." / "BUTTER?" -- "NO." / His Friend: "COME ON, BILL - WE'VE STRUCK A DIVISIONAL CANTEEN."' This cartoon highlights the fact the shortages and rationing were not just encountered at the Front but all over the territories involved in the war effort. It also illustrates the fact that soldiers thought it would be different and better when they got home, but this wasn't the case.

Form / genre:	Images > Pictures > Cartoons (commentary) Images > Pictures > Illustrations > Periodical Illustrations
Subject / content:	Food supply Grocery stores Soldiers Vendors Scarcity
Person / organisation:	Carman, W. A. [Illustrator]
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Summer, 1918
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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'.

Dates / events:	1918 [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.