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Captain Bruce Bairnsfather at work
Captain Bruce Bairnsfather (1888-1959), British soldier, artist and cartoonist, famous for his curmudgeonly creation, Ole Bill - a typical British Tommy - during the First World War for The Bystander magazine. Ole Bill can be seen in the one of the drawings above Bairnsfather on the mantlepiece. Such was Bairnsfathers popularity during the Great War, General Sir Ian Hamilton called him, The man who made the world laugh in its darkest hour. Date: 1939
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