Extract from Intelligence Report:- "Yesterday two of our pigeons failed to return"

Accession Number ART02555
Collection type Art
Measurement Sight: 17.4 x 24.4 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description pencil, pen and ink on paper
Maker Gould, Charles Henry
Date made 3 January 1917
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Unlicensed copyright

Description

Depicts two Australian soldiers in a trench cooking two pigeons over a fire on the ends of their bayonets. This cartoon, reproduced in 'From the Australian Front', is accompanied by the caption 'Extract from Intelligence Report:- "Yesterday two of our pigeons failed to return" '.