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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. Bill and his pals Bert and Alf featured in Bairnsfather's weekly "Fragments from France" cartoons published weekly in The Bystander magazine during the First World War.

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Bruce Bairnsfather

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Captain Charles Bruce Bairnsfather (9 July 1887 – 29 September 1959) was a prominent British humorist and cartoonist. His best-known cartoon character...

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Old bill

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Kingdom Old Bill (comics), a cartoon character created in 1914–15 by Bruce Bairnsfather The Better 'Ole or The Romance of Old Bill, 1917 stage musical comedy...

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Gulmarg

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saw the wedding of the brother of Bruce Bairnsfather; Miss Eleanor Hardy Tipping married Capt. T. D. Bairnsfather, with newspapers describing the church...

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Murree

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the British Raj. Several prominent Britons were born here including Bruce Bairnsfather, Francis Younghusband, Reginald Dyer and Joanna Kelley. During the...

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The Illustrated London News

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Illustrators, artists, and photographers included Edward Duncan, Bruce Bairnsfather, H. M. Bateman, Edmund Blampied, Mabel Lucie Attwell, E. H. Shepherd...

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Hole

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World War cartoon Well, if you knows of a better 'ole, go to it by Bruce Bairnsfather, 1915. A hole in the Berlin wall, 2019. A handheld hole punch, used...

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Christmas truce

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he was reluctant to witness the truce for fear of German snipers. Bruce Bairnsfather, who fought throughout the war, wrote: I wouldn't have missed that...

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German Corpse Factory

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resolved into six million pounds of glycerine." A later cartoon by Bruce Bairnsfather also referred to the rumour, depicting a German munitions worker looking...

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Sydney Chaplin

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Bill, adapted from a World War I character created by cartoonist Bruce Bairnsfather. Also, this was the second Warner Bros. film to have a Vitaphone soundtrack...

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List of people educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College

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Blofeld, Taoist and Buddhist author Reginald Blomfield, architect Bruce Bairnsfather (attended United Services College), humourist Erskine Childers, author...

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Chief Little Wolf

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Thomas Duncan Bairnsfather MC (1897-1949) — brother of Bruce Bairnsfather, Leichhardt Stadium's ring announcer, and, as "Captain Tom Bairnsfather", the ring-side...

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List of World War I films

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daughter while on the lam. C, D, R 1928 Canada Carry on, Sergeant! Bruce Bairnsfather Canadian soldier and French waitress R 1928 UK Dawn Herbert Wilcox...

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Old Bill and Son

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early Phoney War of World War II and with that character's creator Bruce Bairnsfather as one of its screenwriters, it stars Morland Graham, John Mills,...

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September 29

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1896) 1958 – Aarre Merikanto, Finnish composer (b. 1893) 1959 – Bruce Bairnsfather, British humorist and cartoonist (b. 1887) 1960 – John Baillie, Scottish...

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Royal Military College of Canada

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after Bruce Bairnsfather's Great War cartoon characters. Old Bill & little Alphie, stone carvings based on two World War I cartoon characters by Bruce Bairnsfather...

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George Cukor

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British musical based on Old Bill, a cartoon character created by Bruce Bairnsfather. In 1920, he became the stage manager for the Knickerbocker Players...

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Cinema of Canada

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recently created subsidiary Canadian International Films, in 1926, and Bruce Bairnsfather was hired to direct with an expensive contract, but his inexperience...

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Hector Lachlan Stewart MacLean

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Lieutenant Viscount Fincastle were shot, as well as two troop horses. Bruce Bairnsfather was his maternal cousin. His nephew, Vice Admiral Sir Hector Charles...

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Clun

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Burrough (1875 in Clun – 1939) played first-class cricket for Somerset Bruce Bairnsfather (1887–1959) cartoonist, created Old Bill cartoons, resided at Cresswell...

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List of comics creators

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Attwell – (Wot A Life) Nigel Auchterlounie – (Comics in The Dandy) Bruce Bairnsfather – (Old Bill) Julius Stafford Baker II – (The Bruin Boys (aka Tiger...

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Carl Giles

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of Giles' career and relationships. Giles cited his influences as Bruce Bairnsfather and Graham Laidler ("Pont"), and he himself influenced the style of...

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Bristol Engineer Volunteers

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A dugout drawn by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather. Bairnsfather's first cartoons for The Bystander were drawn at a farm near 'Plugstreet' just before 48th (SM)...

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Illustrated Chips

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major role in the evolution of the British comic style, influencing Bruce Bairnsfather, Dudley D. Watkins and Leo Baxendale. Beginning in 1909 with Hounslow...

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Old Bill Through the Ages

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Cleave and Jack Denton. The film was based on a series of cartoons by Bruce Bairnsfather. The screenplay concerns a soldier serving in the trenches during...

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