Tommy Collection (page 5)

The Candid Friend by Bruce Bairnsfather
The Candid Friend " Well, yer know, I like the photo of you in your gas mask best" A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander Date: 1916

Advert for Wrights Coal Tar Soap WW1
An advertisement for Wrights Coal Tar Soap with a British soldier holding up a towel in the hope that some nice person will send him a box of Wrights Coal Tar Soap. Date: 1915

British soldiers in German dugouts, WW1
British soldiers in abandoned German dugouts, WW1. 1914-1918

British soldiers sleeping in shell holes, WW1. 1914-1918

Thomas Beasley, Irish horseracing jockey
Thomas (Tommy) Beasley, Irish horseracing jockey. late 19th century

Gallant soldiers in the thick of the fight 1916
Scots at the thick of Battle of the Somme, holding a wrecked trench and dug-out during a critical moment. Date: 1916

Sunlight soap advertisement, WW1
The CLEANEST fighter in the World - the British Tommy. Great War advertisement for Sunlight Soap manufactured by Lever Brothers

War Budget cover - 1916
Front cover of The War Budget showing a British soldier, bayonet fixed, looking determinedly into the future as a New Year - 1916 - dawns. Date: 1915

Shooting Box to Let Furnished
Amusing illustration showing a sign which had genuinely been hung outside a dug-out in France. A photograph of it had been sent to its former tenant, a soldier in Llandudno Red Cross Hospital

The War Budget - British Tommy reads letter from home
Front cover of The War Budget featuring illustration of a British soldier, dressed for winter with a fur or goatskin gherkin, seated contemplating a photograph of his wife or sweetheart. Date: 1916

The War Budget - black British soldier
Front cover of The War Budge featuring a photograph of a black British soldier grinning widely. Date: 1916

The War Budget - Christmas 1915
Front cover of The War Budget, Christmas 1915, showing a British soldier sitting in a trench next to a brazier as he opens a parcel of Christmas food sent from home. Date: 1915

British soldiers in a trench
Three British Tommies eat a basic meal in a trench, using a crate as a makeshift table, on the Western Front. Date: 1932

British Tommy using sword as toasting fork
Photograph: British Tommy using sword as toasting fork. Shows a group of mounted soldiers in a ?Hommes 40/ Chevaux 8? railway carriage cooking on a fire in a metal bucket

Advert for Frederick Gorringe service gloves 1915
Lambskin lined service slip on gloves with secure strap. Date: 1915

Advert for Frederick Gorringe winter comforts 1915
Winter comforts... for our troops. Advertisement for Frederick Gorringe, winter woollies, khaki cardigans and service scarfs for British soldiers during World War I. 1915

Tommy always likes a water in the right place
Photograph: Tommy always likes a water in the right place. One is enjoying a cold douche [shower] while the others scour their mess tins.One of 193 British

Tommy Sly of Durham. 1827

Tommy Bell of Houghton-le-Spring, Durham. 1827

Dressing doll. Tommy Lad
Tommy Lad. Cut-out postcard enabling children to cut out the garments & fit them on the body of the doll character. Date: 1921

Some Tart - WW1 humorous postcard
A soldier stares lovingly at a tart which has, by magic, assumed the visage of his favourite girl! Date: circa 1916

Illustration, Tommy Snooks and Bessie Brooks
Illustration, As Tommy Snooks and Bessie Brooks were walking out one Sunday, says Tommy Snooks to Bessie Brooks, Tomorrow will be Monday. Date: 1895

Swan Pen advertisement, WW1
First World War advertisement for Swan Pens featuring humorous cartoon. " We calls im The President. " Ows that

Happy Families - Mrs Thomas Atkins. circa 1940s

Happy Families - Mr Thomas Atkins. circa 1940s

Happy Families - Master Thomas Atkins. circa 1940s

Caricature of Thomas Foster, The Times journalist
Caricature of Thomas (Tommy) Foster, The Times newspaper journalist. 1880

Illustration, Tommys Christmas Dream - his bedroom is full of presents from his uncle. 1910

Little Folk Misfitz - Little Tommy Tucker. circa 1910

Happy Families Playing Cards - Mrs Tommy Atkins the Soldiers Wife. late 19th century

Happy Families Playing Cards - Mr Tommy Atkins the Soldier. late 19th century

Happy Families Playing Cards - Miss Tommy Atkins the Soldiers Daughter. late 19th century

Happy Families Playing Cards - Master Tommy Atkins the Soldiers Son. late 19th century

Cartoon, Getting Ready for the American Market. Showing the English actress and theatre manager Henrietta Hodson (1841-1910) helping Lillie Langtry (1853-1929) prepare for a theatre tour of America

Caricature of Thomas Gibson Bowles, magazine founder
Caricature of Thomas (Tommy) Gibson Bowles (1841-1922), founder of Vanity Fair and The Lady magazines. 1881

Liberated Dog 1918
Captured at Courcelette - a British Tommy and a French dog liberated from the Boche... Date: 1918

Soldier and Dog Friend
Tommy et sa mascotte - a French postcard shows a British soldier holding his canine companion in his helmet. Date: circa 1914

Getting Ready for the Big Fight at Olympia
The worlds middle-weight boxing title - Walker and Milligan in training. Vignettes by MacMichael showing middle-weight boxers Mickey Walker

Tommy Atkins by Arthur Shirley and Ben Landeck
Inside pages of promotional flyer for Tommy Atkins by Arthur Shirley and Ben Landeck. First produced at the Pavilion Theatre, Whitechapel, 16th September 1889. Date: 1889

Tantalizing Tommy by Paul Gavault and Michael Morton
Promotional postcard for Tantalizing Tommy by Paul Gavault and Michael Morton, adapted from La Petite Chocalatiere by Paul Gavault. (Theatre de la Renaissance, Paris, 23rd October 1909)

La Baionnette cover - French impression of British officer
Front cover design for La Baionnette, an issue focusing on the British Tommy. Showing a stereotypical English soldier in khaki uniform, smoking a pipe. Date: 1916

Cartoon, Humour, WW1
Cartoon, Humour, showing two fashionable French women chatting with an English soldier. They say it must bother him to kill Germans. He replies no, they ve been used to it for a long time. Date: 1916

Cartoon, Epic song, WW1
Cartoon, Epic song. A pretty French woman sits at a table, with four British soldiers hovering nearby. She says its typically the soldier she likes the look of most who doesn t understand French

Cartoon, During the bombardment, WW1
Cartoon, During the bombardment. A British soldier eats from a hamper during a bombing raid. He tells another soldier, Jim, that when he eats quickly he gets the hiccups -- can he suggest a remedy

Captain tasting the mens dinner on Christmas day
Cooking the plum pudding in a German steel helmet - A Christmas Scene in a British dug-out at the front. 1916

Illustrated London News Christmas Number 1914 WW1
The Illustrated London News Christmas Number 1914 with an illustration by Samuel Begg showing a British soldier holding a huge, steaming Christmas pudding decorated with Allied flags and holly

Stiff by H. M. Bateman, WW1 cartoon
Hilarious sequential cartoon by H. M. Bateman showing a French soldier unable to move the crank on the front of an officers car

WW1 - Mocking the Boche
WW1 - The enemy seen here captured by a British soldier. The soldier represented as a stereotyped Englishman, Cockney Tommy. The name Tommy was commonly ascribed to the British private soldier

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