Trevor Lloyd’s War
Trevor Lloyd
was a New Zealand artist, illustrator and cartoonist who lived from 1863 to
1937. He was largely self-taught
although he might have had some lessons from the artist Louis John Steele. He started doing sketches and caricatures but
soon moved on to oil paintings based on his sketches.
Lloyd first exhibited his work at the Auckland Society of
Arts in 1883. He re-exhibited at the
society in 1896, 1898 and 1899. By the
1900s he had moved to Auckland and was making a living from his art. He began illustrating stories and articles in
the New
Zealand Illustrated Magazine and the New
Zealand Graphic. In 1903 he
joined the Auckland
Weekly News as an illustrator, graphic artist and cartoonist. From 1904 his cartoons also appeared in
Wilson and Horton’s other publication, the New
Zealand Herald. He retired from the Herald and Weekly News in November 1936. The
Angela Morton collection, housed at Takapuna Library, holds a collection of
original Trevor Lloyd cartoons that were donated to Auckland Libraries.
20 August 1914: ‘Where he goes, we go’.
27 August 1914: Big resistance from
little Belgium.
24 September 1914: The British bulldog
and the French poodle (that’s what we think of them) come to Belgium’s aid and soon have the mangy German
dachshund on the run. In the distance the Russian bear wrings the Austrian
eagle’s neck, helped by the Serbian mastiff.
22 October 1914; The Kaiser’s gramophone
commands his mangy dachshund to turn and fight the contemptible British bulldog.
17 December 1914: Here are the British
and German ideas of using airships at Christmas. The British Father Christmas drops presents
down the chimney, while the Kaiser uses his zeppelin to bomb a cathedral.
But here’s what the Allies really want for
Christmas. The British lion and Russian bear prepare to carve up Turkey, with
France and the other allies looking on.
22 April 1915: The Russian bear drives another nail into the
Austrian eagle’s coffin with the Carpathian offensive.
29 April 1915: Meanwhile on the eastern
and western fronts, the Russian bear, British bulldog and French poodle have
the German porcupine (the Kaiser) surrounded. The Kaiser’s only hope is his
zeppelin air-raid campaign.
6 May 1915: Kaiser Wilhelm is now shown
as a polecat voiding his poisonous gases on his enemies when he is surrounded.
Author: Chris Paxton, Sir George Grey Special Collections
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