A Visit to the Alpini by Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon
You might think the Austrians were safe on top of a place like this - but they're not.'
Cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander showing three Austrian soldiers staked out atop a precarious mountain top in the Alps, surrounded by protective barbed wire. The caption by Bairnsfather suggests that the nimble Italian Alpini were still able to surmount such obstacles
Picture No
10837390
Media ID
46105151
Size
3926px x 5826px
(2.9MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Illustration by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystaner', 27 February 1918, page 447
Date
1918
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