WESTERN FRONT Gomez Carrillo FLANDERS Belgium WAR DOGS FRANCE Rheims Stretcher Bearers PTE. WILLIAM DEVLIN Map Romania Balkans
A magazine detailing events in the First World War
12 pages (24 sides)
DATE 1916
Searchlights From Ships of the Navy - full front page
Gomez Carrillo - The Spanish Author and Traveller
At The Front: .
A Refractory Mule on the British Front - Repairing Its Shoes
A Signpost on the West Front - The Way to Pozieres, Bepaume and The Rhine
A Bomber Adjusting His Stock of Grenades
A Bombed Tree Forms the Support of a Little Outpost Hut
GPO - Letters and Parcels Being Sorted
German Naval battery in Position near Westned on the Coast of Belgium
Rumanian Cavalry on Parade
Rumanian Infantry and A Type of Rumanian Cavalryman
Rumanian Cavalry in Action with a MaximGun
Rumanian Infantry with a Maxim in the Snow
Russians Marching Along the New Quay at Salonika
British Bank Playing the Russian Ashore at Salonika
Russian Regimental Colours in Silk and Embroidered Motto
General Sarrail the Commander in Chief
The CinC Saluting His Troops
Lombardy - Soldiers Going Back to Billets
Bersagliere watching a Point Past Which His transport Must Move
The Italian Army in Thick Summer Foilage on the Hillside
Barbed Wire Entanglements Alongside the Lombard Vine
Type of Rocket Used by Italians to Illuminate the Austrian Positions by Night
A Despatch Rider in East Africa - Up a Tree To Get Away From a Lion - full page drawing
The New French Guns in Action:
The Monster Gun Being Run into Position on Rails
A Modern Trench Howitzer
Battery of Lighter Guns in Action on the French Front inset
King Georg V with King Albert Describing an Incident in captured German Trences
George V - General Joffre - President Poincare - General Foch - General Haig
George V in Captured German Trenches Watching Progress on the Batttle, The Reive Attack on Pozieres
Australian Solders Going Through a Course of trench Drill Under Royal Supervision
The King with Sir Henry Rawlinson and General Congreve Studying a Military Plan
King George About to Inspect a German Dug Out Captured in the Advance
The King and The Prince Inspecting German Trenches at Fricourt
HM Decorating Officers of the RNAS in Flanders
HM Being Greeted by His Soldiers in a Village
King George Stroking a Tiny Mascot Puppy Attached to a Field Hospital
King Meeting Local Peasants
Women on war Service:
Member of the Women Signallers Territorial Corps
British Nurses on the Steps of an Officers Hospital
Queen Elizabeth Visits the Belgian Trenches
Queen of the Belgians Crossing a River on a Tour of Inspection
Lady Muriel Paget Working for the Red Cross
The Scottish Highland Regiments at Longueval - Pipers Leading the Men to the Tune of "The Campbells Are Coming".. full page drawn by R. Caton Woodville - shows the soldiers advancing from the trences with bayonets fixed, shells landing, barbed wire, being led by Scottish pipers
War Dogs in the Trenches: Sleekburnc.
Dogs as Messengers, Scouts etc - Column of Dogs with Handlers of the French Lines Going to the Front
Collie Dog Wearing a Respirator - It Journeys To and From the Trenches with Tobacco
Dog with Its Master Watching the Effect of a Revolver Shot
Dogs as Trench Guards
Mister Julius Mendes Price - The War Artist and Correspondent for the Illustrated London News
The Ruins of the Cathedral at Rheims the Grave of German Kulture - full page
A Hospital Train Near The Front on a Light Railway Line the truck pulled by a donkey or horse
The Stretcher Bearers Supreme Self Sacrifice:
Homage to the Stretcher Bearers, Heroes Whom Fame Pases By! - two drawings - artists unknown
Hero Aviators and Victims of Hun Spite:
Lieutenant R. G. Gould Awarded DSO For Bringing Down Enemy Plane
Temp. Captain W.A. G. Bellew RFC Awarded MC for Attacking Enemy Planes
Champion Pilot Second Lieutenant Guynemer Brought Down Fourteen German Aeroplanes
Lieutenant Savage RFC Killed in a Fight With Immelmann
Temp Second Lieutenant A. L. Gordon-Kidd RFC
Special Parade of No.1 convalescent Camp, Sutton Park - Lance Corporal Hazell - Sgt P. Allbutt - Lance Cpl. Dennis holmes - Private J. E. Kelly - Cpl Nolan - Who received Medals from Lieutenant Col. Diver
Captain R. Brickwood Decorated by the King with the DSO
Irishman Private William Devlin Royal Fusiliers Shot by the huns at Limburg for Refusing Casements Offer
Private Deal of the East Surreys Sentenced to Eighteen Months Imprisonment for Having an Altercation with a German NCO in Charge at the Prison Camp
Private Kemp East Surreys Outrageousley Sentenced to One Years Imprisonment for Refusing to Dig Trenches for His German Captors
Corporal Smith Norfolk Regt. Receives Three Years for Speaking His Mind About the Kaiser
The Army hauling Lewis Guns at the Front
A Network of Light Railways in the Countryside at the Front
An Aeroplane Leaving the Aviatio Park o a Raid Over Enemy Lines
Map - The Latest Extension of the World-War Area - full page; also shows inset of The Balkan States - main map shows from Varna - Plevna - Sistova Shimla - in the South - up to Czernowitz - Oliviopol in the north - also Odessa - Sulina Kustendji down the Black sea coast - over to Belgrade in the west
A Spaniard's Impression of the Britith Front - by E. Gomez Carrillo
With the Berkshires in the Big Push
How I Got into Rheims During the Bombardment - by Julius M. Price
Plus many caption articles to accompany the images. Sleekburnc.0909

An original used issue, not printed on the best of quality paper, but it more than makes up for this in terms of written content with many images. The four digit number in brackets in title is for my ref only.
It measures 285mmx220mm (11.25 x 8.5") approx. Spine is loose with binding witness marks. There is age yellowing/toning and some marking. Some creases etc to corners and handling marks to edges. Images, photos sketches etc. vary in size.
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