The Wipers Times
Satirical British trench magazine from the First World War / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Wipers Times was a trench magazine that was published by British soldiers fighting in the Ypres Salient during the First World War.
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In early 1916, the 12th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters stationed in the front line at Ypres, Belgium, came across an abandoned printing press. A sergeant who had been a printer in peacetime salvaged it and printed a sample page. The paper itself was named after Tommy slang pronunciation of Ypres.