12th Sherwood Foresters
The Wipers Times, 1916 - 1918, a near complete run of original editions, comprising;
The Wipers Times or Salient News, Vol 1, Nos 1, 2 & 3, Vol 2 No 4 Feb 1916 - March 1916, [Vol 2, no. 4 followed Vol. 1, no. 3], No 1 with the three signatures of F,J. Roberts (editor), J.H. Pearson (sub-editor) & R.?B.Woods (publisher);
The New Church Times .., Vol 1, Nos. 1, 2, 3 & 4, April 1916 - May 1916;
The Kemmel Times .., Vol 1, No 1, July 1916;
The Somme Times .., No 1, Vol 1, July 1916;
original printed wraps (some creasing), held in hand-made cloth binder, the upper cover embroidered '12th S.F., Wipers Times, LSP',
[LSP the initials of Lt. L.S. Pentecost, who ended the war as Captain, MC.]
together with a quantity of individual issues, comprising;
The Kemmel Times .., Vol 1, No 1, July 1916, (3 copies);
The Somme Times .., Vol 1, No 1, July 1916;
The B.E.F. Times .., Vol 1, Nos. 1, 2, 4, 5, Dec 1916 - April 1917 (2 copies of no. 5);
The B.E.F. Times .., Vol 2, Nos 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, Aug 1917 - Feb 1918 (2 copies of no. 6)
The Better Times .., Vol 1, No 1, Nov 1918
21 of the 23 issues, lacking only The B.E.F. Times, Vol 1, no 3 and The Better Times no. 2, original wraps, some worn and torn, 6 duplicates
[In early 1916, the 12th Sherwood Foresters found an abandoned printing press in the town of Ypres. A sergeant who had been a printer in peacetime brought the press to life, and The Wipers Times was born. Edited by Capt. Roberts, the paper provided a satirical view of life in the trenches. The title changed each time the battalion moved location. Only 100 copies of the first part were printed.] (27)