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- As Hislop and Newman highlight, the insubordinate optimism of soldiers on the Western front, voiced in the content of the original Wipers Times, was a natural coping mechanism against the drudgery, muck, and futility of war. This made the paper itself a topic of controversy.
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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 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.”.
Jul 5, 2013 · The Wipers – named after the British soldiers’ habitual mispronunciation of the shell-blasted Belgian town where the printing press was discovered – was one of more than 100 ad hoc news sheets...
The Wipers Times is about drollery in the face of death, satire as a weapon of war. The 23 ‘numbers’ of the paper, produced from all over the Western Front, were a hit with soldiers, some...
NN: We’ve been very lucky because we’ve got the original facsimile of the original Wipers Times in their entirety. Also we’ve got a memoir that Fred Roberts wrote long after the war.
