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Jun 8, 2021 · Share This Article. 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. In 1916, Captain Fred Roberts and Lieutenant Jack Pearson of the 12th Battalion, The Sherwood ...
The Wipers Times: The soldiers’ paper. Soldiers have always used dark humour as a way of coping with the grim realities of war. A good example of this is 'The Wipers Times', one of the finest of many trench publications produced on the Western Front during the First World War (1914-18).
The co-writers Ian Hislop and Nick Newman talk about writing the Wipers Times together. I think what you’ll get as the audience is the authentic voice of the trenches. This is what they wrote ...
May 17, 2012 · The Wipers Times ran until 1918, but was often renamed as the 12 th moved to different locations along the front. For a time it became the Somme Times, the Kemmel Times and even just the BEF Times. Publishing was temporarily interrupted by the German spring offensive in 1918, but was resumed at war’s end publishing some final issues under the ...
The Wipers Times. 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.
Jul 5, 2013 · Before Private Eye there was The Wipers Times, a satirical newspaper which found comedy in the adversity of the First World War’s frontline. So who better than Ian Hislop to bring its ...
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With Fred Roberts as Editor, Lieutenant Jack Pearson as Sub-Editor, the first February 12th edition of ‘The Wipers Times’ was born in one of Vauban’s rampart casemates. A name which this paper thought more original than any Fleet Street ever thought of, it was taken from army slang for Ypres, the scene of bitter fighting since 1914.
