This weeks Sabine’s battleffield guide Saturday
Captain Bruce Bairnsfather’s First World War cartoons
Captain Bruce Bairnsfather was a British humorist and cartoonist, witty at times ( now Joe will say so are you with your cat pictures) He developed a series of cartoons for ‘the bystander’ about the life in the trenches featuring “Old Bill”, a soldier with a walrus mustache , he became an icon and was known to boost the British moral, even ended up on postcards, pottery, play cards, a play even a film.
In my own collection I have two of the books that were published by the bystander, one is temporary missing,( happens once in a while) but I also have a decorative plate made by Grimwade,
I selected a few of his cartoons where he seems to make fun about the Germans, mind you he didn’t spare the British army either. It is sense of humor you need to survive if you ask me.
And to please Joe Robinson and A Gustaf Bryngelson you will find a cat too between the images.