20mm Shell Casings, GILES Daily Express and Sunday Express Cartoons (Wartime Series)
Today we take a look at two types of 20mm Cartridge cases. We also discuss the comic books of probably the greatest Social Cartoonist Carl Giles https://tjsmilitaria.co.uk/products/giles-daily-express-and-sunday-express-cartoons-1st-series-3 How and why did the Giles Family first come about? During the war, Giles had great fun with his mocking depictions of the Nazi and Fascist leaders. However, by the end of that conflict, Giles realised that most of his favorite wartime characters were now dead. ‘I sure hated to see old Musso go”, Giles later admitted: “He was half my bloody stock-in-trade.” So out of necessity, he needed a new cast of characters who would represent post-war Britain. The initial focus of the new family was George, one of Giles’s wartime soldier characters, who, having demobbed and returned to civilian life, became simply known as ‘Dad’. The first recognisable appearance of the Giles Family was in the Sunday Express on 5 August 1945. From then on in, they were shown reacting to the post-war difficulties of exhausted cash-strapped war-torn Britain