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The Wipers Times Exposé: The Actor, Avesnes, and the Forgotten Evening Edition of the Wipers Times

Oct 15, 2023 · 22 min read · Sherwood Foresters Avesnes-Lez-Aubert Sommerset Light Infantry The Wipers Times Trench Journals The Wipers Times The Better Times The Avesnes Advertiser Wipers Staff Cassell's Magazine J.O. Twiss Fred Roberts Josiah Oliver Twiss Barrow-in-Furness London Theatre Bandmann Circuit Bandmann Comedy Company Violet Blyth Pratt Heritage Play Jessie Belmore Belmore Theatre Family Eugenics Education Society Worm's Eye View Winston Churchill Alfred Balfour Actor Galatic Central 1918 Shell Scandal Lost Generation ·
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In my last piece, about the Printer and the Presses , I mentioned that I had come across a signpost in the second to last issue of the Wipers,now named the Better Times, in relation to the printing of the final two issues. This was the signpost: Our new paper is born in very different circumstances to the old Wipers …

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The Wipers Times Exposé: The Printer and the Presses

Sep 2, 2023 · 12 min read · The Wipers Times Wipers Staff Wipers Printers Sherwood Foresters Sergeant George Turner Sergeants Dinner Lieutenant Colonel Morgan Dr Alfred Caenepeel Flanders Museum Last Post Ypres Railway Wood Hooge John Ivelaw-Chapman Riddle of Wipers Turner & Caepeneel map Sint-Jacobsstraat Ypres Ramparts Dickebusch Dr Katheryn White ·
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In my post on the Wipers Times Staff, Suspects, and Witnesses, I mentioned that there was ambiguity around who the printer on the paper was. One of the names associated with the role was that of Sergeant Leslie Tyler — found in a letter he sent in 1916 to his local paper. However, research has uncovered that these were …

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The Wipers Times Exposé: Staff, Suspects, and Witnesses

Jul 29, 2023 · 45 min read · Wipers Staff Violet's Chronicles of Fashion Sapper E. J. Couzens Gilbert Frankau Stanley Melborne Mohr C.J. Lodge Patch Jack Pearson J.O. Twiss Frederick Roberts Richard Donald Bell Woods Sherwood Foresters Dorothy Violet Hall Henry Cecil Hall Annie Selena Hall Nottingham Nottingham Evening Post Table Tennis Dan Todman Thomas Emmanuel Ward Sergeant Tyler Sergeant Turner T.S. Leslie Allen BBC Chris Rainbow 1964 The Wipers Times The Wipers Times Film The Wipers Times Play Ypres Times Balkan News Ian Hislop Nick Newman Nottingham Archives Nottingham Local Studies Library Nottingham Guardian Captain E.J. Neale Major Harry Shirwell Wipers Printers Mi7a Official Press Buereau Herbert Jenkins Captain Muller SS Emden ·
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In tracking down details on Dorothy Violet Hall, the writer behind the ‘Chronicles of Fashion’ feature of the Wipers Times, I am at somewhat of an impasse. In my initial article, I mentioned that I believed, given his prominence in the Nottingham art scene, that her brother, Henry Cecil Hall, may be the key to …

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The Wipers Times Exposé Addendum: Conclusive Proof, the Letters of Thomas Moore Emmanuel Ward, and Other Contributors Identified

Jun 1, 2023 · 18 min read · The Wipers Times The Red Feather Cockles Tumley Wipers Times Contributors Bruce Bairnsfather Beach Thomas Daily Mail Tatler Sabretache Dorothy Violet Hall Thomas Moore Emmanuel Ward Fred Roberts Stanley Melbourne Mohr Captain W.J. Asher Richard Donald Bell Woods FWW Publications Nottingham Nottinghamshire Archives Nottingham Electrical City Department Nottingham Freemasons Sherwood Foresters Shipstones Brewery Soldier Poets H. Smalley Samson Trench Journals Violet's Chronicle of Fashion Ypres ·
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Following on from the previous article, I got my first lead regarding tracking down the identity of Violet, of 'Violets Chronicle of Fashion', in the form of letters written by Thomas Moore Emmanuel Ward (1895-1947). Ward was a Lieutenant in the 12th Battalion (Pioneers) Sherwood Foresters as well as a contributor to …

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The Wipers Times, Tatler, and the Identity of ‘Violet’ from Violet’s Chronicle of Fashion: An Exposé

Apr 27, 2023 · 24 min read · The Wipers Times Trench Journals Tatler Violet's Chronicle of Fashion Nottingham Riddle of Wipers Shipstones Brewery Sherwood Foresters 1928 1916 Dorothy Violet Hall Henry Cecil Hall Sabretache Ypres 24th Division Gilbert Frankau Herbert Jenkins Propaganda Nottingham Girls' High School Ruddington Women in War ·
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The Wipers Times — its story and humour immortalised in a 2013 BBC film of the same name, based on the stage play by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman — is one of the most famous of trench journals to appear during the First World War.1 However, there exists a mania around these publications, that began as soon as they first …

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Soldier-cartoonist: Private Charles "Chas" William Holt, 16th Sherwood Foresters [Unconfirmed]

Apr 13, 2023 · 2 min read · Sherwood Foresters 16th Chatsworth Rifles 177th Brigade 39th Division Soldier Cartoons Unconfirmed Cartoons ExpectationsVsReality Blighty A Budget Humour from Home Nottingham Shipstones Brewery ·
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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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