Blighty, Sweet Blighty
Two optimistic and rather over-excited Tommies, home on leave during World War I, lean out of their train carriage to breathe in the sweet smell of - the local gas works! A humorous reference to any smell being an improvement on those hanging over the trenches of the Western Front
Picture No
10231987
Media ID
46002243
Size
3629px x 5306px
(4.1MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Illustration by Will Owen in The Sketch, 5 July 1916 page 14
Date
1916
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