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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.
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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