Roles was not conscripted during the war because his employment, making engines for torpedo boats at Parsons on the Town Quay, was a reserved occupation.
Albie Hecht | Philippa Roles | Richard F Outcault's last ''Hogan's Alley'' cartoon for ''Truth'' magazine, ''Fourth Ward Brownies'', was published on 9 February 1895 and reprinted in the ''New York World'' newspaper on 17 February 1895, beginning one of the first comic strips in an American newspaper. The character later known as the Yellow Kid had minor supporting roles in the strip's early panels. This one refers to ''The Brownies | Albie Reisz |