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(24) Page 41 - End in sight
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| Blighty and Sea Pie > Blighty > Christmas, 1917 > (24) Page 41 - End in sight |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74465694 |
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| Description | 'The end in sight', by Sergeant W. Sawers, Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC). This cartoon shows two Scottish soldiers, Hughie and Wullie, looking at a signpost and commenting on how close they must now be to Berlin. The caption reads: 'THE END IN SIGHT. / "LOOK, HUGHIE - IT'S ONLY A HUNNER MILES TO BERLIN." / "TUTS MAN, WULLIE! THAT WAS AFORE THE WAR. AFTER A' THIS ADVANCING, IT CANNA BE SAE FAR NOO."' Although most of the content that appeared in 'Blighty' magazine resembled government propaganda, there is an ambiguous element to this cartoon. For though it can be read as a simple piece of morale-boosting propaganda, it can also be read as an ironic comment on how little progress has in fact been made since the war started. |
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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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