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| Picture No | 10429081 |
| Date | 1919 |
| Description | The Lighter Side by Bernard Hugh |
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A Tommy (on furlough pending discharge): 'Blimey! I should fancy I had my bathing costume on.' A soldier returning home weighed down with a greatcoat, boots, rifle, rucksack and (in the case of this particular man) a number of Christmas presents, must have found civvies a strangely enlightening experience. Demobilised soldiers could choose to keep their greatcoats or to hand them back to the Army in return for a payment of ú1.
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| Source | Illustration by Bernard Hugh in The Bystander, 1 January 1919 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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