The growth of democracy,1917,World War I,WWI,Battle,Flying Artillery,Trench

Title: [The growth of democracy]
Creator(s): Bairnsfather, Bruce, 1887-, artist
Date Created/Published: 1917 Sept. 5 [publication date]
Summary: In the midst of a battle of flying artillery, two soldiers in the British army, one white and the other black, sit in a trench lighting cigarettes. In the distance a house explodes.
Notes:
No copyright information found with item.
Signed, lower right: Bruce / Bairnsfather.
The published caption reads: Colonel Sir Valtravers Plantagenet gladly accepts a light, during a slight lull in a barrage, from a private in the Benin Rifles.
Title from The Bystander.
Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1974; (DLC/PP-1974:232.838)
Published in: The Bystander (London), September 5, 1917.
Subjects:
World War, 1914-1918--Military personnel--United Kingdom.
Race relations--1910-1920.
Smoking--1910-1920.
Caricatures--British--1910-1920.
Drawings--British--1910-1920.
Periodical illustrations--British--1910-1920.
Bookmark /2009616263/
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