When Charles Granville backer of "The Eye-Witness" went bankrupt in 1912 Chesterton's father would finance the magazine under the title "The New Witness". The style and contents remained essentially the same. Gilbert Chesterton took over as editor in 1916 when his brother left to serve in the British Army during the Great War. Chesterton spent seven years (1916–1923) continuing at the helm of "The New Witness", enduring the loss of his brother in 1918. Taking advice to fundamentally change the publication, on 21 March 1925, Chesterton unveiled "G.K.'s Weekly".