WW1 Russian Deserters MUSLIM BURIAL GROUND WOKING Monte Santo Italy CARSO FRONT Bombardment Pola or Pula Austrian Naval Base CAPRONI BOMBER PLANE Julius M. Price
DATED 1917
An Original Weekly Newspaper: 17 pages (34 sides).
Remarkable Photographs of the Russian Debacle; Soldiers Deserting:
Panic Stricken Troops in Flight - - - Russian Soldier Who Remained Steadfast Using His Rifle on Runaways - full front page
Double page (dp) showing six photographs:
British Officers and Russian Officers Attached to the British Armoured Cars.
Holding Up of a Motor Lorry and Removal of Men - Captain Gerrard of the Russian Army.
Giving Orders with Drawn Sword - Russian Officer Organising Picked Riflemen to Line the Road.
A Russian Soldier Assisting Some British Officers to Stop Men Running Away.
800 Russian Soldiers Selected to Guard a Road Against Advancing German Cavalry.
Chief of the British Armoured Cars Division: Commander Locker-Lampson Hearing a Report From his Staff.
Russian Soldiers Lining a Road - near hp
Russian Soldiers Stricken with Panic: A Mad Rush Through a Village on the News of German Cavalry Approaching - hp.
Watching a March Past: King Ferdinand With the Crown Prince and General Averescu - fp photograph
A Special Burial Place at Woking for Indian Moslem Heroes Who Died in the Service of this Country, and Who Have Died of Wounds in England. Info. Muslim Burial Ground, Horsell Common, Woking, Surrey.
The Russian Debacle: Russian Soldiers Holding a Trench Meeting With a British Officer Who Questioned Them, and One or Two British Soldiers - full page
Anarchy on the Russian Front - fp showing six photographs:
Demoralised Russian Troops Leaving the Front by Rail.
Leaving a Train full of Wounded Without Food ...
Lenninst Agitators in the Train, Brought From the Front by Cossasck to Kiev Where Many Were Summarily Dealt With.
Some of 3000 Russian "Walking Wounded " from a Hospital Base.
Effects of the Army's Disorder on the civilian Population: Refugees From their Homes Who Lay Exhausted for Many Hours.
News of the Russian Debacle Reaches a British Red Cross Hospital Behind the Lines: Transport nurses and Patients Sent by Our Armoured Cars Division.
British Cars Drawn Up, Awaiting Order to Attack.
Patrolling Wheatfields in Galicia Searching for Enemy Snipers: One of the British Cars.
British Officers and Cars Awaiting Orders.
British Armoured Cars Being Repaired on the Road After a Successful Engagement with Enemy Forces
Officers of the Machine Gun Section of the British Armoured Cars Division - Where Most of Our Casualties Occurred.
The Great Italian Offensive: Engineers Bridging the ISonzo by Night Under Cover of Searchlights - a double page (dp) Drawn by H. W. Koekkoek from a Sketch by Julius M. Price the Official Artist with the Italian Army.
Italy's night Bombardment of Pola By Aircraft: One of the Caproni Bombing Aeroplanes Dropping Bombs by Parachute Light - a double page drawing - Facsimile Sketch by Julius M. Price with the Italian Army.
General Cadorna's Master Stroke on the Northern Carso Front - dp:
A Panoramic View of the Mountainous Country on the Northern Carso Front Looking Across the Upper Isonzo Valley; The Approach Along the Ridge to Monte Santo and Monte Gabriele - half double page. A magnificent view with various mountains and heights marked out.
The Northern Carso Front: British Bombarding Gun Awaiting for Orders to Open Fire on the Eve of the Battle.
Reinforcements Sheltering Under the Arches of a Partially Destroyed Building at the Foot of Monte Santo.
In an Italian Battery Fronting Monte Santo: A Long Range 152mm Gun on a Gun Pit Mounting.
Woman as a Gas Mechanic with an Arrol Foulis Charger in the Works of the South Metropolitan Gas company.
Women in The Gas Works: A Woman Discharging Coke with a Co-Partnership Pusher, at the South Metropolitan Gas Company Works - info. Greenwich
ON the Summit of Monte Santo: The Bombarded Ruins of the Famous Convent - nr hp. Sleekburnc.
A German Prisoner Questioned by French Staff Officers in a Dug Out at Verdun - hp'
The New Ruler In Greece - King Alexander Taking the Oath - dp:
The Royal Procession at the Gates of Parliament House.
Member of M. Venizelos Cretan Bodyguard Standing at the Salute as King Alexander Ascended the Steps.
The New King of Greece Reading his Speech From the Throne in the Chamber of Deputies - fp with text.
The Roll of Honour - Officers Killed in Action or In The Service of Their Country Directly Incidental to the Great War:
2nd Lieutenant W. Stuart Hunter - Lincolnshire Regiment - Of The Park Grimsby.
Lieutenant Leslie H. Hillman - Rifle Brigade - First Avenue Hove.
Lieutenant Howard S. Tindall - Royal Berks Regiment - Of Ashleigh Grange, Hayward's Heath.
Lieutenant A.Fisher Smith - Coldstream Guards 0 of Barnt Green, Worcs.
Captain Y. L. Strain - Royal Garrison Artllery.
Major E. B. Hickox MC - Essex Regiment - Of Tollington park.
Colonel Russell - Of Wollaton Rectory Notingham .
Lieutenant Colonel E. B. Greer - IrishGuards.
Major Owen Mostyn Conran - Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Major Stephen J. Burton - Coldstream Guards - Ofr Manson Place, Queen's Gate SW.
Colonel J. Valentine DSO - RFC - photograph of him sitting in his aicraft
2nd Lieutenant Guy H. Munro - RFC - Of Surbiton and A Member of Kingston rowing Club.
Lieutenant Basil Head - Hertfordshire Regt - Of Brilley, Herforshire.
2nd Lieutenant Harold Charles Brufton - Rifle Brigade and RFC - Of "Croftdown", Wanstead.
2nd Lt H. P. Robinson - Kings Liverpool Regt. Of Rio Segundo, Argentine Republic
Captain Ian G. Fleming MC - Gordon Highlanders.
Lieutenant and Adjt. H. L. Slingsby MC - KOYLI - Of Milnthorpe.
Fashion Sketches: Pretty Frocks for the Coming Season.
Full page of adverts incl. Hand Mad Cigarettes J. G. TImins ofoncaster - - Smiths Allies Watch - - Cerrebos Salt - - Wwitht's Coal Tar Soap - Allenburrys Diet For Adults - etc
Working Party Draining Low and Flooded Ground Newly Captured from the Germans on the Western Front.
Jubol and URodonal - advert
Turf Derby Cigarettes - advert
Mr H. T. Vane - Created a Commander of the British Empire Order.
S.O.S. Beecham's Pills - full page advert showing a naval radio officer
Clincher Motor Tyres - hp advert
Charles Baker and Co. 271-274 High Holborn WC - shows a school boy in his school uniform; Eton.
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The Russian Debacle
Note Book Page by G. K. Chesterton (info. Gilbert Keith Chesterton).
The Italian Bombardment of Pola - caption article with report from Julius M. Price.
Science Page by W. P. Pycraft
Ladies Page by Filomena.
Motoring Column.
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