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| Picture No | 10231987 |
| Date | 1916 |
| Description | Blighty, Sweet Blighty |
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Two optimistic and rather over-excited Tommies, home on leave during World War I, lean out of their train carriage to breathe in the sweet smell of - the local gas works! A humorous reference to any smell being an improvement on those hanging over the trenches of the Western Front.
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| Source | Illustration by Will Owen in The Sketch, 5 July 1916 page 14 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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