Will Dyson, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Will Dyson

Australian illustrator

Date of Birth: 03-Sep-1880

Date of Death: 21-Jan-1938

Profession: cartoonist

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

William Henry Dyson (3 September 1880 – 21 January 1938) was an Australian illustrator and political cartoonist. It was shortly after his wife's death that he drew what was to become one of the most celebrated and widely reproduced of all cartoons, entitled "Peace and Future Cannon Fodder" and astonishing in its uncanny foresight.
Published in the British Daily Herald on 13 May 1919, it showed David Lloyd George, Vittorio Orlando and Georges Clemenceau (the Prime Ministers of Britain, Italy and France respectively), together with Woodrow Wilson, the President of the United States, emerging after a meeting at Versailles to discuss the Peace Treaty.
Clemenceau, who was identified by his nickname "The Tiger", is saying to the others: "Curious! I seem to hear a child weeping!".
And there, behind a pillar, is a child in tears; it is labelled "1940 Class".



Alternative names	William Henry Dyson; Will; Emu
Description	Australian cartoonist
Date of birth/death	3 September 1880	21 January 1938
Location of birth/death		Chelsea
Authority control	: Q8002794 VIAF: 28638181 ISNI: 0000 0000 8436 2471 ULAN: 500113030 LCCN: n88253604 Open Library: OL2316251A WorldCat