First hand impressions, visualised on the spot of the daily and nightly routine of the firing line on the Western Front during World War I. Silhouettes cut by Second Lieutenant H. L. Oakley, the 'man with the magic scissors' who had a long career as a silhouette artists and cut the portraits of many famous people and royalty. This appears to be Oakley's first silhouette published in The Bystander. He would make many more contributions during the war, and in other ILN publications such as Holl