Get a move on Bill
This picture hung in my great grandfather Tommy Smith's house and has been handed down through the family on my father's side. My family all hail from Baildon, Shipley & Bradford in West Yorkshire; as you see the signpost in the back ground points to Baildon, where the charicature of who we assume to be Kaiser Wilhelm II, with his trade mark moustache, is being marched by a 'Tommy'.
We know little of the drawing and have no one to ask as unfortunately my father is my only surviving relative on his side of the family. The drawing appears to be of fine pen and ink and has the initials J.T. in the bottom right hand corner.
We would love to know anything of the picture, can anyone help: is JT an artist so there may be more drawings about or was he a gifted amateur who may have drawn this in the trenches, who is the 'Tommy' in the picture as he has very distinctive features and some identifying items about him such as the Side Cap possibly a Scottish Glengarry and the crossed swords on the lower sleeve.
One pen and ink drawing 8 x 6. A British soldier with sloped arms marches Kaiser Bill off towards Baildon (small West Yorkshire town), small boy cheering on in the background, old man looking on.
Drawing
Kaiser Wilhelm II
CREATOR
Jeremy R Smith
DATE
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LANGUAGE
eng
ITEMS
1
INSTITUTION
Europeana 1914-1918
PROGRESS
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