A magazine detailing events in the First World War
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French Trench which is Nearest to the German Trenches: Two Soldiers, One With His Rifle Pointed Through a Loophole - full front page
The Wreckage of a German Taube Brought Down by the French Aviator, Roland Garros - Belgian Soldier Pouring Water Over the Burning Machine; The Dead Pilot Lying in the Centre.
Paris: The New Governor of Paris, General Galopin, Reviewing Troops with Bayonets Fixed - half page from a photograph
Crystal Palace London: Soldiers Marching with A Royal Naval Division Detachment at a Review
Map to Illustrate the Landing Battles of the Dardanelles - shows Gallipoli, Imbros, Tenedos, Chanak etc
Alexandria:
French Soldiers Leaving Their Camp by Tram Car for Alexandria to Embark for the Dardanelles
Captured German Locomotives at Alexandria
The Red Cross Train at Alexandria Railway Station Bringing in Wounded from the Dardanelles
An Arab Lemonade Seller at the Station
French Cavalrymen with Their Horses on the Quayside Prior to Embarking for the Dardanelles
Constantinople: Turkish Troops Drilling at Taxim Barracks
Band of Turks Officered by Germans on the Gallipoli Peninsula
Turkish Infantry Resting By the Wayside En-route to Gallipoli Peninsula
Number of French Senegalese Soldiers at Alexandria Enroute to the Dardenelles
British Marines and a Sailor With a Landing Party in the Dardaneles Returning to Their Ship With a Keg of Fresh Water
French and Australian Troops Resting On Board a Ship at The Dardanelles
South West Africa - Double page:
British Guns Drawn by Oxen Stuck in the Sand
Network of Soldiers Footprints in the Sand as They Advance Against the Germans
Mule Transport in SW Africa Carrying Water, Fodder and Food etc.
Advancing Under Fire Over the Desert: A Man in the Foreground Shot in the Leg
Trench Warfare in the Heat: King's African Rifles in the Trenches at a Post on the Tsaro River, German East Africa, a British Officer in the Foreground
A Soudanese Sergeant Shaving At a British Camp
A British Gun is Manoeuvred Across a River on an Improvised Bridge
France:
German Cyclist Patrol Receiving Orders to Go Forward in Advance of the Battalion
The Market Place at Vouziers in the Champagne District: The Kaiser with Chief General von Einem
Shelters Built by German Soldiers in a Wood in France
Stabling that Testifies to German Thoroughness: Horse in Hidden Shelters Built in the Argonne Forests, The Men in the Foreground
A Company of Uhlans riding Out of Cover in the Champagne District to Charge a Body of French Infantry
A Group of German Officers on the Highway Leading to the French City of Reims
A British Staff Officer on Horse Back Warning Reserve Soldiers in a Village near Ypres to Stand at Arms - full page from a drawing by A. W.
A Dying Officer's Pride in his Regiment: A Battlefield Scene at Neuve Chapelle Being Propped Up to Watch His Regiment Go Forward - full page from a drawing by Charles Mills Sheldon
Members of the Honourable Artillery Company Enjoying a Swim in a Crater Made by German Shell, Flooded After a Heavy Downpour - man swimming another watching on
Men of the HAC Having A Siesta in a Sand Bag Trench in a Lull in the Fighting
Men of the HAC Resting In a Trench
Men in An HAC Gun Position
Some of the New Fleet of Belgian Armoured Cars and Crew
A Belgian Soldier Automoblist, Constant Le Marins, on a Motor Ambulance
Belgian Mitrailleuse GunnerKeenlyside
General Clergerie, Etat Major of the Gobernor of Paris, With Major Colomb, Reviewing the Auto Mitrailleuse Section Reive
A Russian Church In Paris: A Blessing Ceremony Taken by a Russian Priest
A British Heavy Gun Pulled by Horses and Passing Houses of a French Village Towards the Fighting Line
French Country Folk Crowding Around a British Aeroplane Which Descended Near Their Village: A British Soldier Wearing the Military Police Armlet in the Foreground
British Gun Drawn by Eight Horses Passing Through the Street of a Small Belgian Town En-route to the Front
Work for Blinded Soldiers:
The Hostel, St Dunstan's, Regents Park, London: A Soldier Receiving Instruction in Boot Making
The Blinded Soldiers and Sailors Institution Regent's Park: A Private Learning to Make Mats
Blinded Soldiers Scull onthe Lake in Regents Park
An Apprentice at Work in the Joinery Workshop
Secretarial Work For Those Who Have ost Thie Sight: A Soldier Learns to Type
A Soldier Demonstrating the Use of a Cotton Gauze From a Respirator Used Against Poisonous Gas
Austrain Prisoners Capture by Serbians Engaged n Transport Work
German Prisoners at Work as Scavengers in French Towns
Russian Prisoners of War Cleaning The Streets of Kassel in Prussia
Captured Russians Formed into a Fire Brigade at Cassel
British Bluejackets (sailors) Hauling a Big Gun Ashore at the Dardanelles
Women Workers in the War:
Serbian Women Helping Wounded Soldier Husband Home From a Military Hospital Sleekburnc.
Women War Workers Making Ammunition Pouches in a Well Known Cricket Bat Factory
Group of Women Taking a Driving Lesson from a Motorist
Daughters of Country Clergyman Delivering Letters Cycling Forty Miles a Day
A Parisienne Qualified Lady Dentist Taking Care of the Soldiers Teeth, Afterwards Given A Large Box of Cigarettes Mady by This Lady Dentist and Her Daughter
Grocers Assistants Taking The Place of Men Behind the Counter
The Funeral of a British Soldier in a Little Town In France
The Roll of Honour - Officers Killed in Action or In The Service of Their Country Directly Incidental to the Great War (Info. in the description below is my research):
Major Viscount Crichton - Royal Horse Guards - info. Henry William Crichton
Brigadier General Julian Hasler - The Buffs - Info. son of William Wyndham Hasler of Addingbourne House, Chichester; wife Edith Gwendolin Orr-Ewing
Lieutenant Colonel R. L. Boyle - 10th Canadian Contingent - info. Russell Lambert Boyle
Lieutenant Colonel E. W. Rokeby Stephenson - 3rd Battalion Middlesex Regiment - info. Ernest William Rokeby Stephenson
Brevet Major J. H. D. Costeker - Royal Warwickshire Regiment - info. John Henry Dives Costeker of 6, Mallord St., Church St., Chelsea
Major G. H. Walford - Suffolk Regiment - Info. George Henry Walford of Foxborough Hall, Woodbridge, Suffolk. and of Link Hill Cottage, Sandhurst, Kent.
Major G. W. Bennett - 2nd Battalion Canadian Infantry - Info. George W. Bennett of Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Major T. P. Lees - Queen Victoria's Rifles - Info. Thomas Prior Lees of The Pines, Bedford
Lieutenant Colonel W. Hart-McHarg - 7th Canadian Infantry Battalion - Info. William Frederick Richard Hart-McHarg of 113 Clifton Hill, St Johns' Wood, London.
Major E. E. Edlmann - Royal Garrison Artillery - Info. Ernest Elliott Edlmann
Major F. A. Dickinson - Duke of Cornwall Light Infantry - Info. Francis Arthur Dickinson of Somerton
Captain Wyndham Halswelle - highland Light Infantry - Info. Olympian and British Athlete
Captain G. C. Binsteed - Essex Regiment - Gerald Charles Binsteed of Hanover Square, London
Captain Reginald Gilliat - 5th Battalion Leinster Regiment Royal Canadians - Info. Reginald Horace Crosby Gilliat of New Club, Cheltenham, Glos.
Captain W. C. Kennedy Megaw - Norfolk Regiment - Info. William Cecil Kennedy Megaw of Farnborough, Hants
Lieutenant C. C. Egerton - 1st Duke of Wellington's Regiment - Info. Charles Caledon Egerton husband of Madeleine Egerton, of The Staithe, Mudeford, Christchurch, Hants.
Second Lieutenant J. A. C. Croft - 4th Royal Warwickshire Regiment - Info. John Arthur Christopher Croft of Sussex Square, Brighton.
Second Lieutenant J. Craston - Royal West Kent Regiment - Info. John Craston of Chiswick
Second Lieutenant J. O. G. Becker - East Surrey Regiment - info. Jonathan Otto Gustavus Becker
Second Lieutenant B. C. K. Job - Royal West Kent Regiment - Info. Bernard Craig Keble Job of Lower Gornal Vicarage, Dudley, Worcestershire
Second Lieutenant F. M. Wookey - Royal Irish Regiment - Info. Frederick Maurice Wookey of Leixlip, Co. Dublin Ireland
Photographs by Lafayette, Elliott and Fry, Swaine, Speight, Barnett amongst others.
Four photographs - The Huge Cunard Liner Lusitania Torpedoed and Sunk off Ireland: SS Lusitania - - Views of the Drawing Room x2 - - A Bed Room in the Royal Suite
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Article by Carlyon Bellairs RN on the war at sea, the Navy etc
An article on Air Warfare, RFC (RAF) etc by C. G .Grey
Article on the events etc in the war by F. A. McKenzie a Daily Mail War Correspondent
Donington Hall and Nelson's Last Prayer by Edward Wright
The Great Landing Battles of the Dardanelles - article with mention of Sir Ralph Abercrombie - Sir Ian Hamilton - General Birdwood of the New Zealand Contingent - General Hunter Weston of 29th Division - General D'Amade of the French Colonial DIvision - Gaba Tepe - Sedul Bahr - Kum Kale - Miel - Admiral de Robeck - Plain of Troy - Dardanelles - Village of Krithia - Australian and New Zealanders - Turkish Snipers - HMS Queen Elizabeth - etc
Chronological Events of the War for the Week
Work for Blinded Soldiers with mention of St Dunstan's Regent's Park - the Prince of Wale's Fund - Order of St John - National Institute for the Blind (now RNIB) approx. 190 words.
If there is a particular date you require in regards to this item eg. for a birthday or anniversary etc please ask. This publication is an original and 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 inches) approx. The spine has been repaired/reinforced at some time with like paper. There is age yellowing and spotting, and the edges are fragile. There are binding witness marks throughout. There are a few minor handling marks to the edges. The photographic images, sketches etc. vary in size.
PLEASE NOTE: I cannot guarantee that the issue is complete 'as published' - but what I have described above IS present. As far as I can tell there are no pages missing, but if you are looking for something in particular in this issue PLEASE ASK. If you require information on size of articles (i.e. number of words), sizes of images, please ask before bidding or buying. This item will be packaged in a board backed envelope. The descriptive text in my listing, details the content in my words and not necessarily what is written on the original page. "Info." in the description is my research, although relevant to the accompanying image or article, is not necessarily in the text.
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