Mary Evans A Visit to the Alpini by Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon 10837394

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Picture No	10837394
Date	1918
Description	A Visit to the Alpini by Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon
Details	ONE OF THOSE BALKAN MUDDLES 'His father was a Czech, but his mother was a Serb. He used to live in Bohemia but his sympathies are all Italian. Fought for the Austrians in Galicia owing to his love of the Croats and Magyars. Suspected of being a Slovac or a Ruthenian, he was sent to the Italian Front, where he slipped on a banana skin in Goritzia and was captured.' A POW of confused origin pictured behind barbed wire - one of a series of cartoons by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather published in The Bystander and charting his experiences during a trip to the Italian Front in 1918.
Source	Illustration by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in 'The Bystander', 13 March 1918
Credit	© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
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