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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.
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.
Gas, 1944. The film is set in a military camp, with a sign informing viewers that the camp is situated at a distance of 3642.5 miles (5862 kilometers) from Brooklyn. [1] An alarm alerts the soldiers to wear their gas masks and assemble at a predetermined area of the camp.
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Military dead: Over 5,525,000; Civilian dead: ... they hoped his death would free Bosnia from Austrian rule. ... 1917 political cartoon about the Zimmermann Telegram.
The First World War (2003) is a ten-part Channel 4 documentary television series surveying the history of World War I (1914-1918). It is based on the 2003 book of the same name by Oxford history professor Hew Strachan. [1]
The war is not now seen as a 'fight about nothing', but as a war of ideals, a struggle between aggressive militarism and more or less liberal democracy. It has been acknowledged that British generals were often capable men facing difficult challenges and that it was under their command that the British army played a major part in the defeat of ...
In most cartoons, they were shown in the rain, mud, and other dire conditions, while they contemplated the whole situation. [3] In the early cartoons, depicting stateside military life in barracks and training camps, Willie was a hook-nosed, smart-mouthed Chocktaw Indian, while Joe was his red-necked straight man. But over time, the two became ...