'Putting On a Show for the Troops'

Keeping Up Morale

from 'The War Illustrated'

In the photo on the right we see a soldier dressed up as Oliver Hardy avant la lettre.

Or is he just an overweight Charlie Chaplin look-a-like ?

Times change. It's hard to imagine a present day officer, gallant or not, posing for a such a photo.

This is what is called 'Going Above and Beyond the Call of Duty'.

Belgian ballet

American colored troops arrive with a new kind of entertainment : 'jazz'.

Ragtime was well known in Europe of course, but this new style syncopation became quite the rage after the war.

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