Picture No | 10731383 |
Date | 1917 |
Description | Down but not out by Harold Earnshaw |
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Leaves from a soldier's hospital sketch book. Illustration by Harold ('Pat') Earnshaw (1886-1937), artist and husband of Mabel Lucie Attwell. Pat joined the Artists' Rifles during the First World War and was a Lance-Corporal in the Sussex Regiment when he had his right arm blown off on the Somme. He was released from hospital in 17 July 1917 and astoundingly, this picture was published in The Graphic on 11 August that year.
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Source | Illustration by Harold C. Earnshaw in The Graphic, 28 July 1917 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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