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The Wipers Times. Roberts was a larger-than-life adventurer and gambler. He was immensely loyal to his friends and his memoir is full of wry humour. But infuriatingly, whilst recording his first meeting with ‘Long’ Jack Pearson, he makes no mention whatsoever of . The Wipers Times. Perhaps he felt he had said all he wanted to on the matter.
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The first edition of The Wipers Times in February 1916, edited and printed by a couple of junior officers, was a light-hearted response to the darkest of times. Stand-up comedy in the Ypres trenches
The Wipers Times survived until the end of the war, as did Roberts and Pearson, who came through the Battle of the Somme and were both subsequently decorated for gallantry.
Written and published by soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force in the French front, the Wipers Times is only the first name of the publication (Wipers was the pidgin appellation given to Ypres by the British soldiers) but the paper changed denominations as the division was relocated between 1916 and 1918 ("New Church Times", "Kemmel Times ...
The Wipers Times. Content collapsed. Despite the limitations of a TV budget and scope, this is a well-acted account of a lesser-known story of World War I. Content collapsed. The Wipers Times ...
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Teaching ‘the lesson of satire': using The Wipers Times to build an enquiry on the First World War‘Blackadder for real' is how the British journalist and broadcaster, Ian Hislop, characterised The Wipers Time, the newspaper published on the front line by members of the 12th Battalion Sherwood, and recently brought to a new audience in Hislop's BBC dramatisation.
