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Picture No 10837379
Date 1918
Description Anglo-Saxon by Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon
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"You're comin' along with me, my lad, as soon as this is over!" (Hermann feels he DOES know a better 'ole). Cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander magazine showing his famous soldier character, Old Bill, in a shell hole with a German soldier who he threatens to take captive once the bombardment they are enduring is over. The joke is a version of Bairnsfather's own, most famous cartoon, 'The Better 'Ole'.
Source Illustration by Bruce Bairnsfather in 'The Bystander', 9 January 1918, page 77
Credit © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
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