Picture No | 10837837 |
Date | 1919 |
Description | Old Billisation by Bruce Bairnsfather |
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'Old Bill got very severely checked the other day for anticipating demobilisation by wearing some mufti that he had sent out to him from home.'
Old Bill, the soldier character created by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander, is reprimanded for being a bit premature changing into civilian clothes in anticipation of demobilisation at the end of the war.
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Source | Illustration by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander, 26 February 1919 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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