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| Picture No | 10837363 |
| Date | 1917 |
| Description | If Only They'd Make Old Bill President of those Tribunals, |
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"well, what's your job, me lad?"
"Making spots for rocking-horses, sir"
"Three months"
"Exemption, sir?"
"Nao, exemption be _____d ! Three months' hard!"
Cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander imagining his gruff cartoon character, Old Bill, sitting on a tribunal making decisions about whether men's employment exempts them from military service. In this case, Old Bill has no sympathy for a man with an inconsequential job and instantly condemns him to three months' hard labour!
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| Source | Illustration by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander, 25 April 1917 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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