WW1 - 1917 Air-Raid over Thanet recorded by The Illustrated London News
The Forgotten Frontline
Telling the story of 2000 years of conflict and invasion in the Frontline County of Kent
Monday, May 26, 2014
Role of the Boy Scouts in WW1 - Cartoon by George Loraine Stampa
Role of the Boy Scouts in WW1 - George Loraine Stampa (1875-1951). Stampa was
a regular contributor to Punch aka The London Charivari.
This cartoon from July 1916, shows a troop of Boy Scouts on coastguard patrol, challenging an elderly artist who is sketching a nearby harbour.
Boy Scout "Sketching the Harbour is not allowed."
Artist "Confound you! My name's Cadmium Brown, and..."
Boy scout "Carry on then. We've got orders that you are harmless."
This cartoon from July 1916, shows a troop of Boy Scouts on coastguard patrol, challenging an elderly artist who is sketching a nearby harbour.
Boy Scout "Sketching the Harbour is not allowed."
Artist "Confound you! My name's Cadmium Brown, and..."
Boy scout "Carry on then. We've got orders that you are harmless."
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Belfast City Tramways - Boy Scout Pass
A pass issued in 1915, by Belfast City Tramways enabling Boy Scouts - in uniform - to travel free of charge on the city's tram network.
Saturday, September 21, 2013
Scout Camp at Seasalter August 1912
Little did this group of Scouts and their leaders realise that within 2 years of this carefree camp at Seasalter, that the Country would be entering the First World War.
The Scouts and Leaders are from Number 3, Lady Harris' Own, Faversham.
Sunday, September 15, 2013
WW1 Postcard - Kent the Doorway to England
Postcard produced
by Voile and Roberson's of Faversham. The card appears to be a recruitment
advertisement for an early form of 'Home Guard' - "Kent The Doorway of England - I had rather be a doorkeeper in the County of Kent than dwell in the Tents of the Huns."
Thursday, September 05, 2013
Boy Scouts in WW1 - Wilmot Lunt
Superb Wilmot Lunt cartoon published
in 'Punch' on October 21st 1914. Lunt was a regular contributor to Punch and other periodicals throughout WW1.
Born as Samuel Wilmot Lunt in Warrington, Cheshire. Lunt attended the Académie Julian in Paris and showed at Paris Salon in 1901
This
scene depicts Boy Scouts who have been deployed in duties such
as guarding the Country's coastlines and railway network. This particular pair of Scouts are shown hunting Germans:
Boy Scout "Xcuse me Mum, 'ave yer seen any Germans about 'ere?"
Boy Scouts in WW1 - Cartoonist Bert Thomas (1883-1966)
Bert Thomas joined 'Punch' the British weekly magazine of humour and satire in 1905 and contributed until 1935. During the First World War he was in the Artist Rifles.
Thomas' political cartoons started to be included in gallery
exhibitions as artistic caricatures as early as 1913, in an exhibition
on the Strand by the Society of Humorous Art.
Thomas became famous for drawing also drew
the cartoon of a grinning soldier lighting a
pipe with the caption “’Arf a mo’ Kaiser!”. The cartoon appeared in the Weekly Dispatch
in aid of the paper’s 'Tobacco-for-Troops Fund' which raised around
£250,000. In
1936 his illustrations for a series of readers’ letters in the Evening News were labeled “Half a mo’ stories” and in the Second World War the cartoon reappeared with the caption “Half a mo’ Hitler”.
On October 2nd 1918, 'Punch' published a Bert Thomas cartoon depicting a boy speaking to his father, an Army officer. The boy is alluding that his Scoutmaster knows more about military tactics than his father:
Boy: "Here's my Scout-Master coming Dad. I'll introduce you. If you talk
about military subjects be careful won't you? Because he's awfully
clever."
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