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Blighty Mystery File No.1

Aug 12, 2023 · 5 min read · Blighty A Budget Humour from Home Soldier Cartoons Trench Journals Line of Fire Royal Artillery France Sangfroid Army Service Corps War Weariness Royal Fusiliers S Coy Pioneers Gas Alarm 1916 ·
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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: 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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