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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 ·
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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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Ephemera: Doris Edith May Orridge’s Autograph Book, Essex School Chums, and a Christmas Football Game at the Front (no, not that one)

Aug 20, 2023 · 13 min read · Autograph Book Essex Leigh-on-Sea School-chums 1912 1914 Cartoons Arthur Morland Thomas Oswell Bury Royal Welch Fusiliers 3rd Brigade 1st Division Wrexham Ernest Ronald Shuttleworth Doris Edith May Orridge Royal Warwickshire Regiment 143rd Brigade 4th Division 48th Division Sheffield Somme First day of the Somme George Meborn Hubbard Football at the Front Sergeants Dinner Bayencourt Western Front London Regiment Givenchy Neuve Chappelle ·
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For the third entry in the series, a very battered, missing its front cover — as well perhaps half of its original contents — autograph book which once belonged to a Doris Edith May Orridge (1896 -1988), who attended St Margaret School, a mixed aged and sex, boarding school in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. She attended with her …

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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 ·
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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 ·
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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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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 ·
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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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