Blighty > Summer, 1918
(17) Page 35 - London love-lass
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| Blighty and Sea Pie > Blighty > Summer, 1918 > (17) Page 35 - London love-lass |
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| Description | This poem entitled 'The London Love-Lass', by Lieutenant H.R. Gresham, begins: 'Dear London love-lass why bestow / Your glance where none may see / As all in lavender you go / Beside the lilac tree? / Stay, stay and turn your beaming smile / For sunshine on the air, / Me, can you wantonly beguile / And leave to dark despair.' The poem is placed within a decorative border that includes the skyline of London and a silhouette of men going over-the-top. The illustrations within the border show a soldier leaving his beloved at the gates of a house called 'Lilac Villa'. Much of the material contributed by soldiers and sailors to 'Blighty' magazine was light-hearted and humorous. Here, Lieutenant H.R. Gresham of the 5th Canadians has chosen to express himself in a different way. |
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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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