Picture No | 10235640 |
Date | 1914 |
Description | Oh for the Touch of a Vanished Hand |
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A small boy whose father has gone off to fight during World War One tells his friend, 'The Germans won't arf cop it now. Farver's gone to Belgium and 'e's taken his strap wiv im'. Corporal punishment was still very acceptable during the period.
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Source | Illustrated by Wilmot Lunt in The Tatler 9 September 1914 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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