. . . . "Old Bill \u00E8 personaggio immaginario creato fra il 1914 e il 1915 dal fumettista . Il personaggio veniva raffigurato come un vecchio \"Tommy\", nome gergale con il quale ci si riferiva ai soldati inglesi, con pipa fumante e baffi da tricheco. Raggiunse grande popolarit\u00E0 durante la prima guerra mondiale fra le truppe britanniche insieme al suo commilitone Alphie erano truppe private della British Expeditionary Force. Al personaggio venne ispirato un musical di successo nel 1917 e a due lungometraggi."@it . . . "Old Bill"@en . . . "13848364"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . "Fragments from France"@en . . . . . . . . "Comic strip"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Old Bill"@en . "1124582806"^^ . "Old Bill is a fictional character created in 1914\u201315 by cartoonist Bruce Bairnsfather. Old Bill was depicted as an elderly, pipe-smoking British \"tommy\" with a walrus moustache. The character achieved a great deal of popularity during World War I where it was considered a major morale booster for the British troops. Old Bill and his younger troopmate little Alphie were private infantrymen in the British Expeditionary Force."@en . . . . "Old Bill"@en . . . . . "Old Bill"@it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "1914\u20131915" . . . "1914"^^ . . . . . . . . "Old Bill \u00E8 personaggio immaginario creato fra il 1914 e il 1915 dal fumettista . Il personaggio veniva raffigurato come un vecchio \"Tommy\", nome gergale con il quale ci si riferiva ai soldati inglesi, con pipa fumante e baffi da tricheco. Raggiunse grande popolarit\u00E0 durante la prima guerra mondiale fra le truppe britanniche insieme al suo commilitone Alphie erano truppe private della British Expeditionary Force. Al personaggio venne ispirato un musical di successo nel 1917 e a due lungometraggi."@it . . . . "6594"^^ . . . . . . . "Old Bill is a fictional character created in 1914\u201315 by cartoonist Bruce Bairnsfather. Old Bill was depicted as an elderly, pipe-smoking British \"tommy\" with a walrus moustache. The character achieved a great deal of popularity during World War I where it was considered a major morale booster for the British troops. Old Bill and his younger troopmate little Alphie were private infantrymen in the British Expeditionary Force. Many claims have been put forth as being the model for \"Old Bill\" but the most likely appears to be Thomas Henry Rafferty, a lance corporal from Birmingham in Bairnsfather's regiment, the Royal Warwickshires, who was killed in the same action that invalided Bairnsfather in April 1915. Rafferty was featured in the Weekly Dispatch in 1917, referred to as \"Old Bill,\" along with a photograph taken by Bairnsfather."@en . . . . . . . . . "Old Bill (comics)"@en . .