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

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

    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

    calendar Apr 27, 2023 · 24 min read · FWW 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, Tatler, and the Identity of ‘Violet’ from Violet’s Chronicle of Fashion: An Exposé

    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]

    calendar Apr 13, 2023 · 2 min read · Sherwood Foresters 16th Chatsworth Rifles Soldier Cartoons Unconfirmed Cartoons ExpectationsVsReality Blighty A Budget Humour from Home Nottingham Shipstones Brewery  ·
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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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Robert St.John Smith

Leeds, UK.
Writing about History and Art but not 'Art History'. MA in Britain and The First World War.
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  • The Wipers Times Exposé Addendum: Conclusive Proof, the Letters of Thomas Moore Emmanuel Ward, and Other Contributors Identified
  • AYIT Part 4: An overview of Infant Mortality in England and Wales: 1870-1910
  • Soldier-cartoonist: Private Richard Collins, 12th Battalion East Surrey
  • The Wipers Times, Tatler, and the Identity of ‘Violet’ from Violet’s Chronicle of Fashion: An Exposé
  • The ‘Budding Bairnsfathers’ : First World War Soldier-cartoonists Published in Blighty
  • Ephemera: The Notebook of Jeannie Clegg
  • Weekly Return of Recruits for Regular Army and the Territorial Force From 4th August,1914.

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  • The Wipers Times Exposé Addendum: Conclusive Proof, the Letters of Thomas Moore Emmanuel Ward, and Other Contributors Identified
  • AYIT Part 4: An overview of Infant Mortality in England and Wales: 1870-1910
  • Soldier-cartoonist: Private Richard Collins, 12th Battalion East Surrey
  • Solider-cartoonist: Corporal Gontran De Tournoüer, 11th Field Artillery Brigade, Australian Imperial Force.
  • The Wipers Times, Tatler, and the Identity of ‘Violet’ from Violet’s Chronicle of Fashion: An Exposé
  • Soldier-cartoonist: Lance Corporal Gilbert Tom Webster 26th Royal Fusiliers
  • Soldier-cartoonist: Private Charles "Chas" William Holt, 16th Sherwood Foresters [Unconfirmed]
  • Soldier-cartoonist: Corporal Robert Birrell, 17th Highland Light Infantry
  • The ‘Budding Bairnsfathers’ : First World War Soldier-cartoonists Published in Blighty
  • Ephemera: The Notebook of Jeannie Clegg
  • Looking for cartoons drawn by soldiers in the FWW
  • AYIT Part 3: Maternal Mortality in the Late Victorian and Early Edwardian period
  • Weekly Return of Recruits for Regular Army and the Territorial Force From 4th August,1914.
  • AYIT Part 2: A Brief Overview of the state of Midwifery in the 1800s
  • AYIT Appendix 1.1: Voluntary Maternity Hospitals 1860-1930
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