Bruce Collection (page 9)

The Smoke of Battle, by Bairnsfather
The Smoke of Battle When rolling your Bull Durham, the most important thing is to keep the hands steady so that the tobacco lies evenly on the palm A cartoon by Bruce Bairnsfather in the Bystander

A Candid Communiqu鬠by Bairnsfather
A Candid Communiqu駠 There is undoubtedly some enemy war news you can believe AUSTRIAN OFFICIAL: " We firmly held all the ground we took yesterday" A cartoon by Captain Bruce

Here They Are, by Bairnsfather
Here They Are " This ere countrys a bit too - corrugated for me, Bert" A cartoon by Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander featuring his popular characters Old Bill

A Small Potato, by Bairnsfather
A Small Potato " Whats that hat doin floatin round down there, sergeant?" " I think thats Private Murphy sittin down

The New Tenants Are Not Pleased, by Bairnsfather
The New Tenants Are Not Pleased " Wal, I guess, of all the _ _ billets, this durn pigstye is about the toughest proposition we ve _ " " Snakes! and heres the pig

A Tidy Job, by Bairnsfather
A Tidy Job "s pose we ll ave to stop behind and tidy all this up when its over, Bert" A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather featuring his popular characters, Old Bill and Bert Date: 1917

Oxford Theatre - The Better Ole
Aptly, roadworks commissioned by the London County Council (LCC) are carried out in the road in front of the Oxford Theatre, on the corner of Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road, London

His Masters Voice, by Bairnsfather
His Masters Voice " What an ell of a mess you ve made of the name of William" A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather featuring his popular character Old Bill at the bedside of an ailing

The Growth of Democracy, by Bairnsfather
The Growth of Democracy Colonel Sir Valtravers Plantagenet gladly accepts a light, during a slight lull in a barrage, from a private in the Benin Rifles

If, by Bairnsfather
IF Old Bill Edited " The Bystander" " Ow the ell do ye spell Bairnsfather, Miss Clutterbuck?" A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather which appeared in an issue of The Bystander

IF, by H. M. Bateman
IF - Captain Bairnsfather had been in the Navy! In an issue of The Bystander themed on the word If, an H.M.Bateman cartoon imagines the type of characters that may have been created by Captain Bruce

In the Wings by Bruce Bairnsfather
Peace still waiting in the wings at the British Empire, whilst the famous crosstalk comedians Conference Brothers present their latest and greatest absurdity - Versailles

19 ? by Bruce Bairnsfather
19..? No! This isn t an air-raid bomb bother. Only his grandson Harold, aged eight, has just asked Old Bill what he did in the great war. Date: 1917

S Peace by Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon
Old Bill, the soldier character created by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander, finds himself, at long last, in civvies and contemplating, in astonishment, a world at peace. Date: 1919

Old Bill Presides at the International Preserves Commission
As Amsterdam cable states that " Old Bill" is Acting President of the International Commission which is sitting at the " Hotel Terrific" Paris

A Fair Knock Out by Bruce Bairnsfather
It is doubtful whether Old Bill really has the physique for a big contest. Last week, in the first of forty-five rounds, he was knocked out by a clerk in the Pay Department at Paris Plage

The Interior of a Bolshevist YMCA hut by Bruce Bairnsfather
(They are very much in need of funds). A YMCA hut, filled with drunken and rowdy Bolshevik Russians, as envisaged by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander. Date: 1919

Putting the Screw on by Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon
The above exclusive photograph (received via Amsterdam and Singapore) shows clearly the consternation in German official circles on receipt of the amended armistice terms for February, in which 1

C est la Guerre by Bruce Bairnsfather
There were times when I wished Prussian Militarism hadn t forced me to visit America. A young man on board an ocean liner suffers from sea sickness. Date: 1919

Demobilisation by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon
Owing to demobilisation not exactly synchronising with the taking back of the Hotel Terrific by the management, General Sir Claude Cumbersome has to deal with a lot of returns under most impossible

Bystander masthead featuring Old Bill by Bruce Bairnsfather
Masthead of The Bystander magazine featuring characters on a London tube train (or bus?) drawn by some of the magazines most regular artistic contributors

No Joke! by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather post- WW1 cartoon
The Censor has been most kind to me throughout the war. I have made the above drawing simply out of gratitude. I have also omitted the joke, thus ensuring complete approval

Arthur Bourchier as Old Bill, Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1
Arthur Bourchier in the role of Old Bill, the popular character created by Bruce Bairnsfather. Bourchier played the part in the original production of The Better Ole

Second-Lieut. Mabel, by Bairnsfather
Second-Lieut. Mabel Smells Powder (No novelty) " There you are Bert; I told you we d ave em ere before we d finished." Bairnsfathers popular characters, Old Bill and Bert

Fish and Chip, by Bairnsfather
" Now, then, you two, theres nothing more till 4.30" (Old Bill is not going to the zoo again). A cartoon by Bruce Bairnsfather featuring his popular character Old Bill

Old Bills War-Aim, by Bairnsfather
" To live to see a day like this" A cartoon by Bruce Bairnsfather featuring his popular character Old Bill. The cartoon appeared in a special War Aims issue of The Bystander

At the Brewery Baths by Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon
" You chuck another sardine at me, my lad, and you ll hear from my solicitors." High jinks in a brewery on the Western Front utilised as a baths for British soldiers

HMS Bruce, British flotilla leader and destroyers
HMS Bruce (D81), British Admiralty type (Scott class) flotilla leader, with W-class destroyers HMS Wild Swan (D62) and HMS Wishart (D67), at Wei Hai Wei, China. Date: circa 1920s

A Visit to the Alpini - 19? by Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1
The war was over some time ago, but this man hasn t heard about it yet, and nobody can get up to tell him. His sniping is therefore very annoying to that Austrian village in the valley

Old Bill in Mesopotamia, Nobodies Concert, WW1
A leading member of " The Nobodies" Concert Party for entertaining troops in Mesopotamia, impersonating Old Bill the lead character in the popular cartoons of Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in

Bairnsfather with the American Army, WW1 cartoon
" I know we re fightin for Democracy, but the next time the Colonel comes around, salute, you ______ son of a ______!" An American sergeant disciplines Date: 1918

A Visit to the Alpini by Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon
You might think the Austrians were safe on top of a place like this - but they re not. Cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander showing three Austrian soldiers staked out atop a

My Visit to the Italian Front by Bruce Bairnsfather
(Left picture): A Visit to the Alpini: " The chauffeur says a car fell over here last week" " Oh!" Autobiographical cartoon from Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander

Through Mud to Victory by Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon
Private 90045 Gerrard, after three-quarters of a mile of this, sincerely hopes it won t be a dud. A private British soldier struggles through the mud

Lead Kindly Light by Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon
" Yes, I know the roads rotten; but I m sure this habit of Sec.-Lieut. Smiths of finding his way back to billets with his private repeating Verey pistol (that his aunt sent him)

Romance - 1917 by Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon
" Darling, every potato that I have is yours" (Engaged). Cartoon in The Bystander by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather showing a couple locked in an embrace having agreed to get engaged

If Only They d Make Old Bill President of those Tribunals
" well, whats your job, me lad?" " Making spots for rocking-horses, sir" " Three months" " Exemption, sir

Out by Bruce Bairnsfather, 1919
And may he never be " called up" again! Father Christmas casts off the uniform and weapons of First World War soldiering

Makes you F(i)ume, doesn t it? by Bruce Bairnsfather
If only OUR National Poet would take Heligoland and refuse to leave it until its ours! Caricature of George Robey (1869-1954), music hall entertainer and comedian, pictured refusing Heligoland

Where Did That One Go by H. M. Bateman
(With innumerable apologies to Captain Bruce Bairnsfather) An irate golfer on the green struggling to make contact with the ball drawn by H. M

A Wetter Ole by Bruce Bairnsfather
" Well, we knows of a better olevitch, and we re blinkin well goin to it!" Old Bill and his comrade find themselves in a similar ole to the one they originally made famous in Captain Bruce

Why M. C. A. ? by Bruce Bairnsfather
Why M.C.A.? A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather showing a group of German soldiers in front of a Y.M.C.A. hut, with the caption... One of those unfortunate photographs

The Better Ole
A scene from the play The Better Ole, co-written by Bruce Bairnsfather and featuring his popular character, Old Bill, which opened at the Oxford Music Hall on 4 August 1917

Rumbles from the Rhine by Bruce Bairnsfather
" Yer know Bert, I reckon they ought to stop the sale of this ere Bolshevism and Cocaine? Old Bill, the comic creation of Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander magazine

Vive l Entente! by MacMichael
" Lumme, there wouldn t arf be a scandal if the Capting or Mr Kirchner knew that you an me come out of our frames for a smoke

Bruce Bairnsfather releases - WW1 film cartoon
The Military Cross a pulsating military drama in two reels. Humorous pictorial trailer for a possible war film imagined by Bystander cartoonist, Captain Bruce Bairnsfather. Date: 1917

Envy at the Chateau, by Bairnsfather
" Bit of alright, bein one of these ere dukes, Bert, and ave a bed like this to sleep in" A cartoon by Bruce Bairnsfather featuring the character of Old Bill

Dear -------- at present we are staying at a farm
While being surrounded by died cattle and a derelict barn, two soldiers decided to rest and write a letter home

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