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  • The humorous side of tunnelling is so pronounced that, could "Bairnsfather" view one such episode, our bookstalls would shortly be surrounded by eager crowds, clamouring for the first edition of "Fragments from Germany," depicting mud-bespattered "Old Bills" crawling for their very lives down narrow tunnels, closely pursued by the wily Hun!

    'Brother Bosch', an Airman's Escape from Germany Gerald Featherstone Knight

  • Bairnsfather; we were too busy exercising Christian Science on our

    Fanny Goes to War Pat Beauchamp Washington

  • He sleepily handed me the wire: "Lieutenant Bairnsfather to proceed to join his battalion as machine-gun officer ...."

    Bullets & Billets Bruce Bairnsfather

  • The difference is, however, that instead of turning his satire exclusively upon the enemy, as did Gillray, Captain Bairnsfather turns his -- good-humouredly always -- on his fellow-warriors.

    Fragments From France Bruce Bairnsfather

  • "Where are you living, Bairnsfather?" said the Colonel to me.

    Bullets & Billets Bruce Bairnsfather

  • Among other mural decorations were some rough sketches drawn by Captain Bairnsfather, which afterward became famous as

    The Emma Gees Herbert Wes McBride

  • Petit Douvre Farm during this attachment were much interested in finding some of the early drawings of Bairnsfather, as done for the

    The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion W. C. C. Weetman

  • "Why can't the Navy have a Bairnsfather?" asks _The Weekly Dispatch_.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 7, 1917 Various

  • Bairnsfather speaks of as the hotel at which one could live and go to war every day and I afterward did that very thing, for one day; leaving the front-line trenches in the morning, having a good dinner at the Fauçon and being back in the front line at night.

    The Emma Gees Herbert Wes McBride

  • "Where's that right-hand gun of yours, Bairnsfather?" he asked.

    Bullets & Billets Bruce Bairnsfather

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