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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.
Jun 8, 2021 · The satirical paper—christened The “Wipers” Times to reflect British soldiers’ pronunciation of the name “Ypres”—satirized daily life on the frontlines. As the troops deployed to different areas around the Western Front, the paper assumed different titles, including The Somme Times , The B.E.F. Times and The Better Times .
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).
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.
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” Pearson published the first edition of the Wipers Times.
May 17, 2012 · An example of the sardonic humour that filled the pages of The Wiper’s Times. 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.
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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 ...
