sentences:  He died in 1959 of complications of bladder cancer, in Worcester.A commemorative blue plaque appears outside one of his old studios, 1 Sterling Street, Knightsbridge London ().The blue plaque was initiated by Tonie and Valmai Holt who later wrote Bairnsfather's biography ("In Search of the Better Ole – the Life, the Works and the Collectables of Bruce Bairnsfather") and also sponsored a memorial plaque to Bairnsfather on the cottage at St Yvon in Belgium at the edge of Plugstreet Wood where Bairnsfather drew his first 'trench' cartoons.