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(17) Page 27 - Their first meeting
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Permanent URL	https://digital.nls.uk/74466114
Description	This drawing illustrates the joyful moment when a soldier, only just returned from the war, meets his son for the first time. There is no dialogue in this drawing. 'By 'Rip', after Lieutenant Hill, Canadians.

Form / genre:	Images > Pictures > Drawings Images > Pictures > Illustrations > Periodical Illustrations
Subject / content:	Clocks Fathers Fireplaces Flowers (plants) Infants Meetings Military uniforms Rooms Sons Toys Vases Fire screens (equipment) Highchairs (children's chairs) Homecomings
Person / organisation:	Hill, Rowland, 1873-1925? [Illustrator]
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Christmas, 1917
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Dates / events:	1917 [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.