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On March 21, 1915 an officer of the 87th Royal Irish Fusiliers wrote to the illustrator William Heath Robinson. It was a suggestion for a cartoon. “The scene is a battle front in Flanders . . . and a sporting British officer has got a large fishing rod & is casting for souvenirs in the shape of German helmets which can be seen popping up and down behind the German parapet. The picture might be entitled ‘The new war game — Picking the Pickelhaube (an example of English frightfulness).”
Not being one of those temperamental artists, Heath Robinson drew a cartoon based on the
