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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.