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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74463645 |
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| Description | This cartoon shows a veterinary officer quizzing an experienced soldier about how to care for horses. The caption reads: 'Veterinary Officer (examining men on horse management): "NOW, ABOUT THE TREATMENT OF FEET; IF A HORSE HAD FOUR BAD FEET, WHAT WOULD YOU DO?" / Old Hand: "INDENT FOR A NEW 'ORSE, SIR."' Drawn by Private F. Sherwin of the Honourable Artillery Company (HAC), this cartoon plays on the idea of an experienced hand giving clever and funny answers to questions posed to him by superior officers. The joke is that the 'old hand' would not bother treating the injured horse, but would instead send out a written order for a replacement horse. |
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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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