A Deep Question by Will Owen, WW1 cartoon
"Long Tom" (back from the front): Mud, my boy? Why it's up to one's neck!
The "Bantam": Whose neck?
Humorous cartoon by Will Owen showing a tall officer talking to a vertically challenged member of the Bantam Corps, battalions formed of shorter men. The bantam expresses concern at the depth of the mud in the trenches
Picture No
10719718
Media ID
46099251
Size
3400px x 5086px
(2.4MB)
Credit
(c) Illustrated London News/Mary Evans
Source
Illustration by Will Owen in The Sketch, 10 March 1915
Date
1915
