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Old Bill and Co. July 1940Old Bill prepares a shield wall of defences to protect the English coast from German invasion: " Thats enough about ow Arold did it at Astings. I m doing it now!" 1940
Old Bill and CoAs Old Bill looks ready to fend off a German invasion, an officious old woman asks, " Shouldn t a great, grown, hulking man like you be doing something towards the defence of his country
Old Bill and Co. September 1940" No, you were wrong, Bill! That wasn t another warnin you eard." Bruce Bairnsfathers cartoon makes light of the repeated air-raid warnings civilians were subjected to during the Battle of
The Better Ole, by Bairnsfather and Eliot, WW1The Better Ole, by Bruce Bairnsfather and Arthur Eliot. First produced by Charles B Cochran at the Oxford Music Hall, London, August 1917
Bruce Bairnsfather Fragments from France exhibition, 1916Advertisement in The Graphic for an exhibition of drawings by the popular soldier cartoonist Bruce Bairnsfather. The pictures were exhibited at the Graphic Galleries, 190 Strand
Bruce Bairnsfather, The Herald of the Dawn. 1914-1918
Photo of Carry on, Sergeant by Captain Bruce BairnsfatherBlack and white photographs in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News of 21st November 1925 showing cast members from Carry on, Sergeant
Beechams Pills advertisement by Bruce BairnsfatherTake Beechams Pills if you have the hump! Humorous cartoon of a boy on a camel. Unsigned by clearly by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather who seems to have secured a series of advertisements for Beechams
Canada For EverIllustration by Bruce Bairnsfather showing a Canadian soldier at Vimy. The original illustration was sold at auction from the stage of His Majestys Theatre in 1917 at the Canadian Matinee in aid of
Fragments magazine posterReproduction of a poster advertising a new magazine, Fragments, edited and contributed to by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather who found fame during the First World War with his cartoons and character
Fragments magazine poster by Bruce Bairnsfather, 1919Poster advertising Fragments magazine, published by The Bystander and edited and contributed to by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather whose cartoons in the Bystander during the First World War were hugely
Bruce Bairnsfather cartoon, So ObviousCaptain Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon, So obvious, published in the Bystander, 1916. Date: 1916
Bruce Bairnsfather cartoon, The thirst for reprisalsCaptain Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon, The Thirst for reprisals, published in the Bystander, 1916. Date: 1916
Bruce Bairnsfather cartoon, Where did that one go to?Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon, Where did that one go to?, published in the Bystander, 1916. Date: 1916
Bruce Bairnsfather cartoon, Old BillCaptain Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 Old Bill cartoon, pencil heightened with white, with signature. Date: 1917
Bruce Bairnsfather cartoon, Maxim MaximCaptain Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon, Maxim Maxim -- Fire should be withheld till a favourable target presents itself, published in the Bystander, 1916. Date: 1916
Bruce Bairnsfather cartoon, squeaking water pumpCaptain Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon, I m sure they ll ear this damn thing squeaking, published in the Bystander, 1916. Date: 1916
Bruce Bairnsfather, The Professional Instinct AgainCaptain Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon, The Professional Instinct Again, published in The Bystander, 1916. A juggler in civilian life practises with hand grenades. Date: 1916
Bruce Bairnsfather drawing on a farmhouse wall in France, WW1The birth of " Fragments" : Scribbles on the farmhouse walls. Picture illustrating how the famous wartime Bystander cartoonist, Bruce Bairnsfather, creator of Old Bill
Bullets and Billets by Bruce Bairnsfather, frontispieceFrontispiece of Bullet and Billets, an autobiographical work by the wartime Bystander cartoonist and creator of Old Bill, Bruce Bairnsfather telling of his experiences in France from the outbreak of
They ve evidently seen me by Bruce BairnsfatherThey ve evidently seen me. A British soldier, precariously peering out the top of a chimney pot, binoculars in hand, is narrowly missed by an enemy shell
Theres Still a War On, by BairnsfatherTheres Still a War On They haven t heard about the armistice in Limpoopoo Land yet, but the news may arrive any moment now; in which case, of course, this sort of friction will cease
A Bairnsfather typeAs part of a naval revue, put on by officers, one of the participants plays the part of one of Bairnsfathers Own, and Old Bill like caricature Date: 1917
Bystander masthead 1917The masthead illustration to the 10 January 1917 issue of The Bystander, drawn by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, showing officers reading the latest issue. Date: 10 January 1917
These War Sensations by Bruce BairnsfatherInsoluble A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander Christmas Number 1916, offering a competition to fill in the blanks of a sentence uttered when Old Bill realises that his rum jar
The Sort of Film We ll Have for Years, by BairnsfatherThe Sort of Film We ll Have for Years How Dick Manvers Got His Star Every familiar feature of the Film is happily caricatured by Captain Bairnsfather in his amusing page of pictures
Tribunal Tribulation at Gruyere Castle, by BairnsfatherTribunal Tribulation at Gruyere Castle " After to-night, Lady Barbara, you ll have to drag these chains about and groan in the east wing
Duty Before Pleasure, by BairnsfatherDuty Before Pleasure " Well, if yer thinks yer ought to, I ll lend yer this bit o mistletoe o mine" A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander Date: 1916
Bairnsfather cartoon modelsThree models based on cartoons by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, the work of Major Hale Edwards, a radiographer at the Sutton Convalescent Camp, where wounded soldiers were taught new trades. Date: 1916
Entanglements, by BairnsfatherEntanglements " Come on, Bert, its safer in the trenches" A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather (with apologies to Raphael Kirchner) in The Bystander
Flanders Nights Entertainments, by BairnsfatherFlanders Nights Entertainments Captain Bairnsfather, who is at present somewhere in France, sends us the above amusing take-off of his colleague Mr Norman Morrow, our theatrical artist
That Provost-Marshal Feeling, by BairnsfatherThat Provost-Marshal Feeling A sensation only to be had at a Base - in other words, a base sensation A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander Date: 1916
Things that Irritate, by BairnsfatherThings that Irritate Private Wm. Jones is not half so amused at accidentally falling down the mine crater as he is at hearing two friends murmuring the first verse of " Don t go down the mine
His Secret Sorrow, by BairnsfatherHis Secret Sorrow " I reckon this blike must ave caught is face against one of them forts at Verdun" A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, in The Bystander 1916
The Saint, by BairnsfatherThe Saint That indiscriminating orb, the moon, gives Private Scattergood a saintly appearance, sadly out of keeping with his thoughts
Con Moto Perpetuo, by BairnsfatherCon Moto Perpetuo Our Bert (going on leave - having asked a question, and having listened to three minutes unintelligible eloquence): " And ow does the chorus go
Chat on Change, by BairnsfatherChat on Change " You owes me two francs and I owes you one thats got into the lining of me coat; that makes it right, don t it
Leave, by BairnsfatherLeave A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather on the cover of The Bystander, 24 May 1916 1916
Those Tubular Trenches, by BairnsfatherThose Tubular Trenches " Is this right for eadquarters?" " Yes, change at Oxford Circus" A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander 1916
The Historical Touch, by BairnsfatherThe Historical Touch " Well, Alfred, ow are the cakes?" A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander 1916
We Look Before -, by BairnsfatherWe Look Before - - And after A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander 1916
A Fragment From - Germany, by BairnsfatherA Fragment From - Germany Hindenburg (home on weekend leave): " Look here, Frau H, if you want to stick nails into anything theres my statue outside" A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather
That Hat, by BairnsfatherThat Hat " Pop out and get it, Bert" " Pop out yerself" A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander, featuring Old Bill and Bert 1916
Valuable Fragments from Flanders, by BairnsfatherValuable Frangments from Flanders It All Comes to this in Time " This interesting fragment found near Ypres (known to the ancients as Wipers)
Letting Himself Down, by BairnsfatherLetting Himself Down Having omitted to remove the elastic band prior to descent, Herr Franz von Flopp feels that the trial exhibition of his new parachute is a failure
In Nineteen-Something, by BairnsfatherIn Nineteen-Something General Sir Ian Jelloid at Home Having picked up this cherished possession for a mere song at a sale near Verdun, the General has now let his country seat
Dawson Art Course advertisementA page from The Bystander, 15 March 1916, advertising a postal art course under the tutelage of Mr Charles Dawson, described as one of Londons most successful designers of Pictorial Publicity
His Initiation, by BairnsfatherHis Initiation No 99988 Private Blobs (on sentry-go) feels that he has at last stumbled across the true explanation of that somewhat cryptic expression
