A Man who stayed at Home. H.M. Bateman cartoon, WW1

"A Man who stayed at Home: The ought-to-have!"
This cartoon shows a man who at various points during the war insists I ought to enlist but never actually does so, until at the very end of the war he sees the soldiers return victorious and regrets never volunteering. The illustration exemplifies the social pressure at the time to volunteer for the army, as the artist suggests that any reader who hasn't enlisted will regret it by the end of the war

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