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“‘Amongst all that mass of paper there must surely be one from a lovely maiden, James, at whose disposal I can place my rusty sword. Incidentally, what has become of the damned thing?’ ‘It’s in the lumber-room, sir—tied up with the old humbrella and the niblick you don’t like.’ 'Great heavens! Is it?’ Drummond helped himself to marmalade. 'And to think that I once pictured myself skewering Huns with it…’”

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from Bull-Dog Drummond by H.C. McNeile (via ivan-fyodorovich)

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“At present we are staying on a farm…” A humorous postcard home by British soldier and artist Bruce Bairnsfather.

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This afternoon I took out a library book of soldier’s songs and slang of the Great War. The stories and songs were accompanied by original cartoons satirising the terrible conditions of troops in the water-filled, rat- infested hell holes that were trenches.  Attached I’ve redrawn the original gouache painting by Bruce Bairnsfather in pen and ink.  The most difficult part of this drawing was substituting appropriate crosshatching tones for light and dark of the original. Note that I did not try to follow the original slavishly, indeed I added my own elements (barbed wire entanglements) As usual, no pencil construction lines, I just drew, and enjoyed it!

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Another work in progress. I’m gradually working my way through the many brilliant cartoons of Great War Officer and cartoonist, Bruce Bairnsfather. This time I’ve chosen a French infantryman as my start image. As usual I free draw with pen and ink, thinking carefully about light, shadow and texture. Drawing with pen and ink is a whole ‘nuther story when it comes to creating depth. I’m still not where I want to be, but sure as hell I can see the finishing post way in the distance. :-))

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“A Candid Communique,” Toronto Star. May 10, 1918. Page 05. — There Is Undoubtedly Some Enemy War News You Can Believe. Austrian Official: ‘We Firmly Held All The Ground We Took Yesterday.’ (By Capt. Bruce Bairnsfather. Published in The Star by special arrangement with Wm. Briggs.)

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This Comes of Having the Whole Tribe Do a Rain Dance Instead of Just One Girl, …, Bruce Bairnsfather, July 4, 1931, Brooklyn Museum: European Art

Size: Board: 19 15/16 x 15 in. (50.7 x 38.1 cm) Medium: India ink and Chinese white brush wash on gray cardboard paper

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/36281

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A funky little dude I saw at the WWI exhibit at the NMUSAF. This doll was a pilot's good luck charm that he carried on combat missions.

Old Bill is a fictional character created in 1914–15 by cartoonist Bruce Bairnsfather. Old Bill was depicted as an elderly, pipe-smoking British "tommy" with a walrus moustache. The character achieved a great deal of popularity during World War I where it was considered a major morale booster for the British troops

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2nd Lt. Bruce Bairnsfather, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, Christmas 1914. Top left, not exactly regulation, top right, asking for a German Officer's button during a Christmas Truce, and bottom, going back in the line slightly before Christmas.

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Bruce Bairnsfather "a hopeless dawn." 1916

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from the Canadian War Museum, I recall reading where Bairnsfather witnessed the inspiration for this cartoon. He wrote that it was a Jerry getting his hair cut amidst the shell fire!

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There was a device in the Cape Evans Hut which measured gusts of wind: this was officially a Dines Anemometer, but it was dubbed the Blizzometer by the men of the Terra Nova Expedition. Simpson, the meteorologist, eagerly informed the Hut on the wind velocity every time there was a particularly strong gust.

“Blizzards became so frequent, however, and the instrument was so infallible, that its novelty soon wore off. There came an inevitable day on which, when a more than usually fierce gust shook the Hut, and a chorus shouted 'Where did that one go?' (although in those days we had not yet heard of Bairnsfather), Sunny Jim lost his customary luminosity, and exhorted us to go and see for ourselves." (Ponting, The Great White South, p.127)

In case you missed it, that was a WWI pop culture reference:

Sometimes I think I needn't be in this deep, but then I catch something like this, and wonder how many others I've missed ...

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That 1944 hurts

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‘Old Bill’ images / Part 2

Bruce Bairnsfather (Artist) was a soldier during WW1 who produced cartoons as postcards narrating the misadventures of a central character called ‘old Bill’.

To find out more about the artist follow the link:

https://www.worldwar1postcards.com/bruce-bainsfather.php

Images were kindly submitted by Shawn Duckers:

Wirral Military Community Services Unit 7 Brandon Street, Birkenhead, Merseyside, CH41 5HN

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‘Old Bill’ images / Part 1

Bruce Bairnsfather (Artist) was a soldier during WW1 who produced cartoons as postcards narrating the misadventures of a central character called ‘old Bill’.

To find out more about the artist follow the link:

https://www.worldwar1postcards.com/bruce-bainsfather.php

Images were kindly submitted by Shawn Duckers:

Wirral Military Community Services Unit 7 Brandon Street, Birkenhead, Merseyside, CH41 5HN

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