The Riddles of Wipers
An Appreciation of the Trench Journal “The Wipers Times”
John Ivelaw-ChapmanFound in: World War I Books
World War I Books
Paperback 208 pages
ISBN: 9781848841918
Published: 21 January 2010
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The Wipers Times was the Private Eye of the Ypres Salient during WW1. Edited, while under bombardment, by a battalion commander in the Sherwood Foresters, written by soldiers actually in the trenches and distributed by ration-wagon and ammunition-mule. The paper bears vivid witness to the shocking realities of trench warfare. Yet for all the occasional horror of its content, The Wipers Times was a gentle, humour-filled and satirical paper which, once its codes are cracked and its riddles solved, tells an interested reader much about the characters and personalities of the men in the British Army. The Mud, the Gas, the Shells; the Fear, the Courage, the Humour and the Bitterness; much is revealed about these and many other things in this remarkable book.
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'Extracts and pictures from the original paper are featured and this fascinating insight is perhaps the closest we can be to understanding the minds and ideas of those courageous men to whom me owe so much.'
The Field, April 2010
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