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Driver of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry cranking up an ambulance

Driver of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry cranking up an ambulance

Like a tram back in Britain, this ambulance has a humorous destination chalked on to its front panel where the windscreen would normally be. This destination is 'Blighty', an affectionate slang term for 'home'.... More

American Red Cross - Christmas Activities - Red Cross Santa in "Blighty". Christmas morning in the big American hospital at Dartford, near London. At seven o'clock the sunlight began to melt the fog from the windows. All the boys had hung up their socks and the Red Cross Santa had been there

American Red Cross - Christmas Activities - Red Cross Santa in "Blight...

Photographer: American Red Cross American Red Cross - Christmas Activities Public domain photograph related to the United States in World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Christmas morning in the big American hospital at Dartford, near London. At seven o'clock the sunlight began to melt the fog from the windows. All the boys had hung up their socks, and Santa Claus the Red Cross Santa, had been there. The nurses and the Red Cross workers stood at one end of the fracture ward waiting for the boys to waken on their first Christmas morning in "Blighty." Without warning, a whoop echoed through the ward. "Wow!" exclaimed Private Edward Davidson of Brooklyn as he reached for his sock. "Wow! Wake up you guys! Santa Claus has been to Blighty!"

Christmas morning in the big American hospital at Dartford, near Londo...

Title and note information from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Hospital. Data: Pacific, Atlantic, Redding. 12/18. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General information about the American Na... More

Joke Photograph of Unidentified Soldiers of the Allied Army of Occupation, Germany

Joke Photograph of Unidentified Soldiers of the Allied Army of Occupat...

1919.2.25 x 5.5.black and white photograph.no negative..Unidentified soldiers posed in a set with a boat. All but one can be seen with a glass of beer...To obtain high quality and larger reproductions of this i... More

Blighty bound - Sheet music, Popular songs of the day
Blighty bound - Sheet music, Popular songs of the day
Blighty bound - Sheet music, Popular songs of the day
Blighty bound - Sheet music, Popular songs of the day
Blighty bound - Sheet music, Popular songs of the day
If it wasn't for dear old blighty song

If it wasn't for dear old blighty song

the words by Bertha Malchow ; the music by George Graff, Jr. (statement of responsibility) For voice and piano. Staff notation. (language) C18 World Music Publishing Corporation (music plate)

If it wasn't for dear old blighty song

If it wasn't for dear old blighty song

the words by Bertha Malchow ; the music by George Graff, Jr. (statement of responsibility) For voice and piano. Staff notation. (language) C18 World Music Publishing Corporation (music plate)

If it wasn't for dear old blighty song

If it wasn't for dear old blighty song

the words by Bertha Malchow ; the music by George Graff, Jr. (statement of responsibility) For voice and piano. Staff notation. (language) C18 World Music Publishing Corporation (music plate)

If it wasn't for dear old blighty song

If it wasn't for dear old blighty song

the words by Bertha Malchow ; the music by George Graff, Jr. (statement of responsibility) For voice and piano. Staff notation. (language) C18 World Music Publishing Corporation (music plate)

Blighty bound - Sheet music, Popular songs of the day
We are coming home from Blighty

We are coming home from Blighty

words by Chas. W. Upperton ; music by E.S.S. Huntington. (statement of responsibility) For voice and piano. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. (additional physical form) Staff n... More

We are coming home from Blighty

We are coming home from Blighty

words by Chas. W. Upperton ; music by E.S.S. Huntington. (statement of responsibility) For voice and piano. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. (additional physical form) Staff n... More

We are coming home from Blighty

We are coming home from Blighty

words by Chas. W. Upperton ; music by E.S.S. Huntington. (statement of responsibility) For voice and piano. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. (additional physical form) Staff n... More

We are coming home from Blighty

We are coming home from Blighty

words by Chas. W. Upperton ; music by E.S.S. Huntington. (statement of responsibility) For voice and piano. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. (additional physical form) Staff n... More