"Is this a Post Office?": cartoon by Knight, 1917, showing a Field Post Office in a Western Front trench. A confused soldier is shown peering into a shelter constructed out of sandbags, whilst the postal worker looks out. GPO mail bags are on the ground outside, together with a large amount of debris (including bottles, barbed wire and shell casings) and a mouse

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