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Our Boys in Sunny France

Raemaekers, Louis, 1919, Chromolithograph
Our Boys in Sunny France
Our Boys in Sunny France
Our Boys in Sunny France
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Item no
33505
Title
Our Boys in Sunny France
Description
"The visitor to the war zone behind the lines always returned home with one deep impression - it was of the extraordinary ease with which Tommy had surmounted the difficulties of foreign tongue and entered into the very bosom of the French family wherever he found it. In his billet he was at home. 'Mere' and 'pere' soon were looking after these 'boys,' and it was always a sad day when a company had orders to move up to the lines. Often the farewells were tearful. Many a French mother, widowed and sonless [sic], found cure for her heartache in attending to the needs of the strange British boy billeted upon her, and when he marched away she knew that she would never see him again. And there were children too, poor ragged little orphans, living in ruins under the incessant scream of the shells, who learned to lisp a few words of English and trotted hand in had with a big brother in khaki, or say on the knee of a weather-beaten old soldier who, in kissing them, was thinking of other children far away in a street he knew well."
Artist / maker
Date
1919
Size
34 x 26.2 cm
Location
Art and Design Library
Copyright
Louis Raemaekaers' drawings are reproduced by kind permission of the Louis Raemaekers Foundation.