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Bystander Postcards & Publications by Major Bruce Bairnsfather.

The Follies - 4th Division - "Will stop anyone hating anything" dated 12 July 1915 and post marked 13 July 1915, addressed to Mrs Hardy, from Lieutenant J H Hardy of the 1st Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Accession Number: KO1019/89

	Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘Coiffure in the trenches’ Accession Number: KO1114/076
	Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘The Historical Touch’ Accession Number: KO1114/077
	Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘The Dud Shell – or the Fuse – Top Collector’ Accession Number: KO1114/078
	Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘The Eternal Question – When the ‘ell is it goin’ to be strawberry’ Accession Number: KO1114/079
	Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘Our Democratic Army’ Accession Number: KO1114/080
	Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘My Dug-out, a Lay of the Trenches’ Accession Number: KO1114/081
	Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘Situation Shortly Vacant’ Accession Number: KO1114/082
	Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘Gott Strafe This Barbed Wire’ Accession Number: KO1114/083
	Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘A Maxim Maxim’ Accession Number: KO1114/084
	Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘A.D. Nineteen Fifty’ Accession Number: KO1114/085
	Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘The Push’ in Three Chapters Accession Number: KO1114/086
	Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘The Fatalist’ Accession Number: KO1114/087
	Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘Directing the Way At the Front’ Accession Number: KO1114/088
	Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘That Sword’ Accession Number: KO1114/089
	Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘Keeping His Hand In’ Accession Number: KO1114/090
	Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘ --- these --- rations.’ Accession Number: KO1114/091
	Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘The Ideal and The Real’ Accession Number: KO1114/092
	Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘The Thirst for Reprisals’ Accession Number: KO1114/093
	Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘No possible doubt whatever’ Accession Number: KO1114/094
	Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘The Things That Matter’ Accession Number: KO1114/095
	Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘That Evening Star-Shell’ Accession Number: KO1114/096
	Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘The Professional Touch’ Accession Number: KO1114/097
	Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘Happy Memories of the Zoo’ Accession Number: KO1114/098
	Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘The Innocent Abroad’ Accession Number: KO1114/099
	Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘Thoroughness’ Accession Number: KO1114/100
	Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘A proposal in Flanders’ Accession Number: KO1114/101
	Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘Trouble with one of the souvenirs’ Accession Number: KO1114/102
	Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘The Nest’ Accession Number: KO1114/103
	Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘At Present we are staying at a farm..’ Accession Number: KO1114/104
	Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘Watch me make a fire bucket of ‘is ‘elmet’. Accession Number: KO1114/105
	Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘In and Out (1)’ Accession Number: KO1114/106
	Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘In and Out (2)’ Accession Number: KO1114/107
	Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘Where did that one go to?’ Accession Number: KO1114/108
	Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘The Tactless Teuton’ Accession Number: KO1114/109

Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘Gott Strafe This Barbed Wire’
Accession Number: KO2090/01

Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘Frustrated Ingenuity’
Accession Number: KO2090/02

Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘The Same Old Moon’
Accession Number: KO2090/03

Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘Dear _____ At present we are staying on a farm..’
Accession Number: KO2090/04

Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘The Push in Three Chapters’
Accession Number: KO2090/05

Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘That 16 Inch Sensation’
Accession Number: KO2090/06

Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘Where did that one go to?’
Accession Number: KO2090/07

Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘Directing the way at the front’
Accession Number: KO2090/08

Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘A Maxim Maxim’
Accession Number: KO2090/09

Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘Keeping His Hand In’
Accession Number: KO2090/11

Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘The things that Matter’
Accession Number: KO2090/12

Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘The Ideal and the Real’
Accession Number: KO2090/13

Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘The Thirst for Reprisals’
Accession Number: KO2090/14

Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘They've Evidently Seen Me’
Accession Number: KO2090/15

Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘Our Democratic Army’
Accession Number: KO2090/16

Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘Rations’
Accession Number: KO2090/17

Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘Watch me make a fire bucket of 'is 'elmet’
Accession Number: KO2090/18

Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘That Evening Star Shell’
Accession Number: KO2090/19

Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘No Possible Doubt Whatever’
Accession Number: KO2090/20

Bystander (Major Bruce Bairnsfather) postcard: ‘The Eternal Question’
Accession Number: KO2090/21

Publications:

	The Bystander’s Fragments from France - by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather Accession Number: KO2463/01
	The Bystander’s More Fragments from France - by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather Accession Number: KO1017/051
	The Bystander’s More Fragments from France - by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather Accession Number: KO2463/02
	The Bystander’s Still More Fragments from France - by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather Accession Number: KO2463/03
	The Bystander’s Fragments from France - by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather Number Four Accession Number: KO2463/04
	The Bystander’s Fragments from France - by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather Number Five Accession Number: KO2463/05
	The Bystander’s Fragments from France - by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather Number Six Accession Number: KO2463/06
	The Bystander’s Fragments from France - by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather Number Seven Accession Number: KO2463/07
	The Bystander’s Fragments from France - by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather Number Eight Accession Number: KO2463/08

Colour Prints:

	Colour print by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather - ‘Well, if you knows of a better ‘ole, go to it!’ Accession Number: KO2463/09
	Colour print by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather - ‘Coiffure in the trenches’ Accession Number: KO2463/10
	Colour print by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather - ‘The Fatalist’ Accession Number: KO2463/11
	Colour print by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather - ‘Where did that one go to’ Accession Number: KO2463/12
	Colour print by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather - ‘So Obvious’ Accession Number: KO2463/13
	Colour print by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather - ‘No possible doubt whatever’ Accession Number: KO2463/14

Drawing:

Drawing of 'Old Bill' by Private Arthur Johnson, number 2890, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. ‘Old Bill’ was the character devised by Major Bruce Bairnsfather, the First World War cartoonist.
Accession Number: KO1926/09

Only a proportion of our collections are on display at anyone time. Certain items are on loan for display in other institutions. An appointment is required to consult any of our collections which are held in store.