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Old Bill & Alphie at Yeo Hall, Royal Military College of Canada. Bill & Alphie's, the Royal Military College of Canada on-campus cadet pub in Kingston, Ontario is named after Bruce Bairnsfather's Great War cartoon characters. Yeo Hall at the Royal Military College of Canada features sculptures of Bill and Alphie.
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Photo of the author, 1918, by Pirie MacDonald. Captain Charles Bruce Bairnsfather (9 July 1887 – 29 September 1959) was a prominent British humorist and cartoonist.His best-known cartoon character is Old Bill.
Described by Andrew Harrison as "the greatest British comic strip ever created", Charley's War tells the story of an underage British soldier called Charley Bourne. Charley joins the British Army during World War I at the age of 16, having lied about his age and told the recruiting officers that he was 18 (they conveniently overlook the fact that Charley gives his date of birth on his ...
The Blue Max (1966) - an ambitious German Army Air Service fighter pilot seeks the aerial engagements to earn the German Empire's top military award, based on Jack D. Hunter's novel; Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) - comedy with an all star British cast; Johnny Got His Gun (1971) - an American soldier is rendered immobile after being hit by an ...
Militarism is the belief or the desire of a government or a people that a state should maintain a strong military capability and to use it aggressively to expand ...
His message was clear: the Netherlands had to take sides for the Allies and abandon its neutral stance. His graphic cartoons depicted the rule of the German military in Belgium, portrayed the Germans as barbarians and Kaiser Wilhelm II as an ally of Satan. His work was confiscated on several occasions by the Dutch government and he was ...
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