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Soldier-cartoonist: Private Alfred Edmeades Bestall, Army Service Corps
Sep 25, 2023 · 6 min read · Blighty A Budget Humour from Home Soldier Cartoons Army Service Corps Alfred Bestall Western Front Wales Mandalay Punch Tatler Daily Express Grove Park Rupert the Bear Sphere London Opinion Passing Show 35th Division Bantam Flanders B-Type Bus Mechanical Transport Learners ·Private Alfred Edmeades Bestall, Army Service Corps Service Number: DM2/112832 Born: 14 December 1892, Mandalay, Burma Died: 15 January 1986, Porthmadog, Wales (Aged 93) I am the type of person, who when visiting an art gallery, bowls past the information desk, brushes off the tour guide, and boots the audio-headset …
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Blighty Mystery File No.1
This is the first 'Mystery File' relating to the soldier-cartoonists who had their contributions published in Blighty but, at this moment in time, the trail has gone cold as I have been unable to find any further information about them — though I am not ready to give up. First, getting published in Blighty brought more …
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Soldier-cartoonist: Corporal Bertie Inward, 2/19th London Regiment
Jun 20, 2023 · 7 min read · Blighty A Budget Humour from Home Soldier Cartoons London Regiment 2/19th (St Pancras) Battalion 60th London Division 180th Brigade 5th London Brigade Fred Karno Charlie Chaplin Stan Laurel Fred Karno's Army Southwark London Western Front Middle-East Salonika Macedonia Palestine Second Battle of Jordan Es Salt Raid Shunet Nimrin Hills Ghoraniyeh Jordan Memories The Magazine of the 19th London Old Comrades Association ·Corporal Bertie Inward, 2/19th (St Pancras) Battalion, London Regiment Service Number: 613219 Born: 22 April 1887, Medway, Kent Died: 27 October 1922, Romford, Essex (aged 35) Fred Karno (1886-1941) was a music hall impresario, known for nurturing the careers of a young Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel — as well as …
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Soldier-cartoonist: Private Richard Collins, 12th Battalion East Surrey
May 10, 2023 · 4 min read · Blighty A Budget Humour from Home Soldier Cartoons 12th Battalion (Bermondsey) 41st Division 122nd Brigade Easy Surrey Regiment Western Front Signaller Battle of Flers-Courcelette Pheasant Wood Dammestrasse St. Eloi Battle of Messines Ridge 1917 Military Medal Denys Wood ·Private Richard Collins, 12th (Bermondsey) Battalion East Surrey Regiment Service Number: 12906 (Later 12234, 1st Irish Guards) Born: 9 August 1899, Brentford, Middlesex Died: Unknown Enlisted, at the age of 19, in August 1915 with the 12th (Bermondsey) Battalion East Surrey Regiment, earning the qualification of 1st …
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Solider-cartoonist: Corporal Gontran De Tournoüer, 11th Field Artillery Brigade, Australian Imperial Force.
May 5, 2023 · 3 min read · AIF 11th Field Artillery Brigade ANZAC French Soldiers 1885 Nobility Blighty A Budget Humour from Home Soldier Cartoons 2nd Light Horse Camel Corps Brisbane Australia ·Corporal Gontran De Tournoüer, 11th Field Artillery Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Service Number: 109 Born: 27 August 1885, Vendome, France. Died: 13 July 1929 (aged 43), Queensland, Australia. Content: This article contains a cartoon, a product of the time, which includes negative stereotypes of a people and its …
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Lance Corporal Gilbert Tom Webster 26th Battalion (Bankers) Royal Fusiliers Service Number: 19799 Born: 17 July 1886, Bilston, Staffordshire Died: 21 June 1962 (aged 75) Tom Webster by Howard Coster, National Portrait Gallery, Public Domain. Better known as Tom Webster, and one of the more well-known names to …
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Soldier-cartoonist: Private Charles "Chas" William Holt, 16th Sherwood Foresters [Unconfirmed]
Private Charles "Chas" William Holt, 16th (Chatsworth Rifles) Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire) Regiment Service Number: 26643 Born: 7 February 1880, St Mary, Nottingham Died: 14 January 1954 (aged 73) A son of a wheelwright, on 9 September 1914, aged 34, Holt enlisted for three …
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Soldier-cartoonist: Corporal Robert Birrell, 17th Highland Light Infantry
Mar 29, 2023 · 4 min read · Soldier Cartoons 17th Highland Light Infantry 14th Brigade 32nd Division HLI Highland Light Infantry Glasgow Pals The Outpost Blighty A Budget Humour from Home Rubáiyát of a Ranker Lance Corporal Frank K Pickles Lance-Corporal J. M'K Thomson Codford East Down camp Cailes camp Western Front Egypt Palestine Rhine Scottish Military Research Group ·Figure 1. The Outpost, 1 March, 1918, p.175, British Library This is the first entry in an ongoing series documenting soldier-cartoonists of the First World War, including those who had contributions published in the magazine Blighty, those who contributed to Trench Journals and Unit magazines, and those who kept …
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The ‘Budding Bairnsfathers’ : First World War Soldier-cartoonists Published in Blighty
Mar 27, 2023 · 15 min read · Propaganda Blighty A Budget Humour from Home 40 Fleet Street Fleet Street Soldier Cartoons Soldier Cartoonists Cartoon History Morale FWW Publications ·Blighty: A Budget of Humour From Home, was a charitable ‘soldiers-newspaper’ that ran between May 1916 and March 1919 (and later became a short-lived mainstream publication until its bankruptcy in 1921). In the foreword for the first issue, the origin of the magazine was attributed to an unnamed journalist who was …
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