Picture No | 10690423 |
Date | 1916 |
Description | Captain Bruce Bairnsfather |
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Captain Bruce Bairnsfather (1888-1959), British soldier and cartoonist, famous for his cartoons called Fragments from France, published in The Bystander magazine during World War One and featuring grumpy and curmudgeonly soldiers, including his creation, Old Bill. Bairnsfather is pictured at the Front, 'about a quarter of a mile from the German trenches' wearing a fur coat, a Balaclava helmet and gum boots. Immediately behind him is a shell hole made by a Jack Johnson shell. Photograph featured in The Bystander at the time the original paintings for Fragments from France were being exhibited at the Graphic Galleries in Strand, London.
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Source | Photograph in The Bystander, 24 May 1916 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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