Cyril McNeile English Sapper Author Bulldog Drummond 1930s Ad Trade Card

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Cyril McNeile English Sapper Author Bulldog Drummond 1930s Ad Trade Card
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4 '' x 2 3/8 ''  or  8.0 cm. x 6.5 cm.
ORIGINAL 1930s TRADE - ADVERTISING CARD
FAMOUS BRITISH AUTHORS
"SAPPER"
LT. COL CYRIL MCNEILE
Herman Cyril McNeile, MC (28 September 1888  14 August 1937), commonly known as Cyril
McNeile and publishing under the name H. C. McNeile or the pseudonym Sapper, was a British
soldier and author. Drawing on his experiences in the trenches during the First World War, he
started writing short stories and getting them published in the Daily Mail. As serving officers in the
British Army were not permitted to publish under their own names, he was given the pen name
"Sapper" by Lord Northcliffe, the owner of the Daily Mail; the nickname was based on that of his
corps, the Royal Engineers.
After the war McNeile left the army and continued writing, although he changed from war stories
to thrillers. In 1920 he published Bulldog Drummond, whose eponymous hero became his
best-known creation. The character was based on McNeile himself, on his friend Gerard Fairlie
and on English gentlemen generally. McNeile wrote ten Bulldog Drummond novels, as well as three
plays and a screenplay.
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ON THE BACK OF THE CARD IS TEXT ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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