How Allied soldiers spend their time waiting to go back home after the end of the war
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How Allied soldiers spend their time waiting to go back home after the end of the war
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Vacation-Time for the Boys in France
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HOW will the boys of the Allied
armies keep busy until they
are mustered out of service? That
is the question on many lips to-
day. It is easily answered. They
will have a gloriously good time—
anc it surely is due them. or these men have borne the chiel
burden of war, risking their lives, fighting the fight in its
truest sense.
One would naturally expect that all their amusements would
be far removed from the thoughts of fighting with which they
might be supposed to be “fed up.” But, strange to relate, no
sooner had they finished hammering the Huns than they turned
about and hammered each other
in boxing matches, wrestling
matches, and fencing bouts.
If you doubt the pleasure and
excitement they get from these
fights, look at these two pictures.
There can be no doubt about the intense interest in the fight of
the thousands of British sailors who are watching it, for not one
of them has turned to look at the photographer. And as for
the two fellows who are having a bout at singlestick, they could
not have looked more fiercely interested when they were bayo-
neting Germans but a short while before.
Their audience. is must, Responsive .
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British official photograph (Image copyright)
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Underwood & Underwood (Image copyright)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1919-02
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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32
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Public domain (Google digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Davide Donà
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 94, n. 2, 1919
