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Tommy slang pronunciation of Ypres
- The paper itself was named after Tommy slang pronunciation of Ypres.
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The Wipers Times was a trench magazine that was published by British soldiers fighting in the Ypres Salient during the First World War. In early 1916, the 12th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters stationed in the front line at Ypres, Belgium, came across an abandoned printing press.
Jun 8, 2021 · Despite dismal conditions in the trenches of the Western Front in the First World War, an enterprising group of British soldiers decided to laugh in the face of danger with a mock “newspaper” popularly known as The Wipers Times.
The paper — with print runs of a hundred or so copies — changed its title as the battalion moved around, called variously The New Church Times (a reference to Neuve Chapelle, one of the bitterest battles of 1915), The Kemmel Times, Somme Times, and after the Armistice, Better Times.
'The Wipers Times' was the brainchild of Captain Fred Roberts and Lieutenant Jack Pearson of 12th Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters. They found a damaged but serviceable printing press among the ruins of the heavily shelled city of Ypres (pronounced 'Wipers' by the soldiers).
May 17, 2012 · Many literary experts say this form of satire was actually pioneered by soldiers in the trenches. The magazine was famous for its phoney ads, ironic personals, and bogus real estate listings. One such item was supposedly submitted from the Germans under the name “Bosch and Co Menin.”.
February 1916 - December 1918. On Saturday, February 12, 1916, something remarkable emerged from the rubble of Ypres. Holed up beneath the ramparts with an abandoned printing press, gramophone and a piano (which were played full blast to mask the sound of the German shells), Captain Frederick “Fred” Roberts and Lieutenant John “Jack ...
The trench newspaper underwent a few name changes during its life but is generally referred to as the Wipers Times and was published around Ypres, which the British Tommies had long referred to as Wipers.
