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1942: Indian soldiers in London

These members of the Indian Army are being advised to reach their destination via the Elephant and Castle underground station. It is indeed colloquially spoken as ‘the elephant.’ Perhaps the official needs to explain that this is not the kind of elephant with which they are accustomed.

At its height the Indian Army numbered two and a half million men – all available to the British cause in North Africa, Europe and, of course, in Asia. It was funded by the Indian, not the British, taxpayer.


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1942: Problem at harvest time

Mary hasn’t been on top where she should have been.


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25-02-2018, 10:42 AM
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1942: The Women’s Land Army at work

Another opportunity for a Punch cartoonist is provided by large contingent of women working in farms to counter the threat posed by U boats.


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1941: Opportunities for romance

Alongside the bombs and the carnage there also existed this world which offered many more opportunities for romance than during peace time. The daughter of the house feels that her day is made. A subaltern is an army lieutenant with either one or two ‘pips’ on his shoulder. It is she who discovered him and it is the car that has had the accident. Nothing to do with her.
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26-02-2018, 10:40 AM
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1940: Coping with the blackout

My own memories do not tally with what is suggested here. We used to get about during of the blackout without resorting to this kind of procedure.


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1942: Emmett at work

Emmett has departed from his usual material here. Instead of complicated machinery he shows the soldiers applying skills learned during assault training sessions simply in order to avoid using the bridge. There wasn’t an health and safety issue at the time.


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28-02-2018, 10:56 AM
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1942: Fobbed off with sweets

There is something quite patronising at work here. Miss Simpson doesn’t look as though she uses up her own sweet ration.


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1941: Women working in a munitions factory

The cartoonist surely knew that this situation is entirely fanciful. Individual munitions working would not be building up a shell from a recipe with Trinitrotoluene (TNT) as an ingredient.


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1942: The Yanks are coming

With America in the war things definitely were looking up as far as winning the war was concerned


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1942: Unwelcome visitor

This is a truly unlikely scenario. Lions in the Western Desert? However if we take this at its face value it might have made sense to present a target with the lion on top. However the enemy would in all probability aim for the tank, not the visitor.


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