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Soldier-cartoonist: Lance Corporal Gilbert Tom Webster 26th Royal Fusiliers

Apr 21, 2023 · 2 min read · Royal Fusiliers 26th Royal Fusiliers 124th Brigade 41st Division Bankers Battalion Trench Journals Trench Journal Editors Blighty A Budget Humour from Home The Bankers Draft Bankers St. Eloi Soldier Cartoons Fleet Street Daily Mail Lord Northcliffe ·
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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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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 ·
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Figure 1. Blighty, 14 June 1916, p.1 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 …

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