 Many songs promoted recruitment ( " All the boys in khaki get the nice girls " , 1915 ) ; others satirised particular elements of the war experience . " What did you do in the Great war , Daddy " ( 1919 ) criticised profiteers and slackers ; Vesta Tilley 's " I 've got a bit of a blighty one " ( 1916 ) showed a soldier delighted to have a wound just serious enough to be sent home . The rhymes give a sense of grim humour ( When they wipe my face with sponges / and they feed me on blancmanges / I 'm glad I 've got a bit of a blighty one ) . 
