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Being a Great War cartoon you might feel I have posted it on the wrong forum. For an obvious reason I would defend my action but there is also a possible/probable unobvious reason which also makes it an appropriate post, as explained below.

This newspaper clipping is from the Burton Observer & Chronicle of 6 December 1919 (Burton as in Burton-on-Trent):

THE DEATH OF Mr. A. G. ABBOTTS.

The death occurred at Derby on Wednesday afternoon of Mr. Arthur G Abbotts, at the age of 44 years. The deceased was well known locally. He took a very keen interest in all public works during the war and he imparted great enthusiasm to his fellow workers. Joining Messrs. Bass and Co.’s staff in 1890, he had been engaged in the barley department. The deceased had been suffering from a feverish cold, but returned to business last week. On Friday he went back to Derby in an exhausted state, and gradually got worse. One of Mr Abbott’s hobbies was painting, and he did a great deal of this for institutions in Burton and Tutbury. George Belcher, the cartoonist often drew sketches from sentences composed by the deceased.

What the article does not tell you is that Arthur, along with two of his brothers, went to South Africa in January 1900 with the Staffordshire Imperial Yeomanry. Whilst there he was commissioned into the Army Service Corps and remained in South Africa until the end of the war.

Was this one of the cartoons that Arthur, a combatant in the South African War of 1899-1902, supplied George with the text for?

Smethwick, this is great - why not launch a new thread entitled Humour ?
I don't mean the propaganda postcards, we've seen those in other threads - but something witty.