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Thumbnail of file (1) Front cover - Xmas furlough

Thumbnail of file (2) Page 2 - Grousing gunner

Thumbnail of file (3) Page 5 - Will you have a wing or a leg?

Thumbnail of file (4) Page 6 - Country here, covered with snow, reminds me of home

Thumbnail of file (5) Page 12 - Home defence

Thumbnail of file (6) Page 17 - Jelloids ahoy

Thumbnail of file (7) Page 19 - What's the matter, chum?

Thumbnail of file (8) Page 21 - What men of action say

Thumbnail of file (9) Page 23 - Ca n'fait rien

Thumbnail of file (10) Page 23 - First and Third Armies strike again

Thumbnail of file (11) Page 26 - You 'aven't come across a battalion, sir, that's looking out for a spare man, 'ave you, sir?

Thumbnail of file (12) Page 28 - King's regs (para 1698)

Thumbnail of file (13) Page 32 - When you wish you could speak French

Thumbnail of file (14) Page 33 - Thank you, Boys, for having won a record victory

Thumbnail of file (15) Page 36 - To think you actually had to kill four Germans

Thumbnail of file (16) Page 37 - And after every successful engagement the bands always followed

Thumbnail of file (17) Page 37 - Allen and Wright's celebrated A.S. briar pipes

Thumbnail of file (18) Page 40 - Your boy will soon be home

Thumbnail of file (19) Page 49 - Side lights on the war

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Christmas, 1918
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Permanent URL	https://digital.nls.uk/91026995

Dates / events:	1918 [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.