THE TIMES Non-fiction * News * Opinion * Business * Money * Sport * Life * Arts * Puzzles * Papers * Irish news * List View * Site Map * RSS Feeds * Welcome to your preview of The Times Subscribe now Heath Robinson’s Great War: The Satirical Cartoons * * Print Share via * Facebook * Twitter * Google+ * 1 of 1 Robbie Millen Published at 12:06AM, June 27 2015 On March 21, 1915 an officer of the 87th Royal Irish Fusiliers wrote to the illustrator William Heath Robinson. It was a suggestion for a cartoon. “The scene is a battle front in Flanders . . . and a sporting British officer has got a large fishing rod & is casting for souvenirs in the shape of German helmets which can be seen popping up and down behind the German parapet. 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