Picture No | 10222589 |
Date | 1916 |
Description | His Christmas Goose by Bruce Bairnsfather |
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Soldier on sentry duty looking hungrily at a goose, with the caption, 'You wait till I comes off dooty'. Bairnsfather's series of cartoons for The Bystander of 'Old Bill' depicting ordinary soldiers and trench life during World War I were immensely popular and provide a lasting legacy of Great War humour.
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Source | Illustration by Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander Christmas Number, 27 November 1916, page 37 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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