The Lighter Side by Bernard Hugh
A Tommy (on furlough pending discharge): Blimey! I should fancy I had my bathing costume on. A soldier returning home weighed down with a greatcoat, boots, rifle, rucksack and (in the case of this particular man) a number of Christmas presents, must have found civvies a strangely enlightening experience. Demobilised soldiers could choose to keep their greatcoats or to hand them back to the Army in return for a payment of £1
Picture No
10429081
Media ID
46654864
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3194px x 4619px
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Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Illustration by Bernard Hugh in The Bystander, 1 January 1919
Date
1919
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