Fergus Mackain
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
An advertising illustrator and artist by trade, Private Fergus Mackain enlisted in 1915, serving in France when the fighting was at its fiercest. Wounded on the Somme and taken out of front line duty in 1917, he turned to designing humorous postcards for soldiers to send home. These postcards reflected in light-hearted fashion the reality of life in the trenches. Mackain's sketches capture the joys of the rum ration, the cacophony of the artillery...