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Female impersonator in trench pantomime, WW1

Fair but False -The Coldstream Girl. A Remarkable Impersonation in a trench pantomime. Among the numerous female impersonators among soldiers providing entertainment for the troops during the First World War, the Tatler prints a photograph of perhaps the most convincing (and he certainly is), Private Splatt of the Coldstream Guards as principal girl in a pantomime at the front

Picture No
13991092
Media ID
45426536
Size
3700px x 5500px (2.2MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Unattributed photograph in The Tatler, 28 February 1917
Date
1917

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