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(4) Page 11 - So you've got a fortnight's leave
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| Blighty and Sea Pie > Blighty > Summer, 1918 > (4) Page 11 - So you've got a fortnight's leave |
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| Description | By Frank Styche. A well-dressed lady is standing wrapped in furs on a beach. She is chatting to a dapper-looking soldier. There is the impression of a beach in the background. The text reads: SO YOU'VE GOT A FORTNIGHT'S LEAVE? YA-AS. THE DOCTOR SAID I MUST GIVE MY BRAIN A COMPLETE REST, SO I'VE COME DOWN TO SEE YOU. |
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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'. |
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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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