Illustrated London News 1915 - February 27th

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February 27th - Cover Heading = O'LEARY WINNING THE V.C.

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• Front cover picture= A "Blockader" of Great Britain: A German submarine

• Front cover adverts = State Express Cigarettes 6d for 10- 1/3 for 25, Australia by Orient Line S.S. Omrah (tw.sc.) 8130 tons from London March 12 - S.S. Osterley (tw.sc.) 12129 tons from london April 9 - S.S. Orsova 12036 tons from London May 7, Isle of Madeira - A haven of rest in wartime - an ideal spot for invalided officers and their families, Donegals for ever - Hamilton & Co. "The White House" Portrush Ireland, Peter Dawson - Oldest and best Scotch Whisky - "P.D." Scotch, Ronuk Polish - entirely British invented made and owned, Avon Tyres be patriotic and practical in tyre equipment

  

• adverts inside front cover = A good "Maxim" (machine gun) to remember Beecham's Pills keep you up to the mark, Anturic bath salts, Watson's "Sunica" best british prism binoculars 6 x mag £6.10s, Important to Canadians "The Illustrated London News" can be forwarded to Canada 52 weeks including Christmas and Summer £1 13. 8d, Carters self propelling bath-chairs and hand tricycles, Benson & Co Cigars - Caballo extra 11/6 per box of 50, London Electrotype Agency Ltd, Marich cigarettes 7/- for a 100 post free, The best way to buy bacon 45lb side 9¼ d per lb - E. Miles and company bristol, discarded clothes bought Child & Co Birmingham, Bissell Carpet Sweeper from 10/6d, Bailey's Turnstiles -Salford,

  

• Frontispiece - 1 x photograph - "Egyptian defences which surprised the Germanised Turks : trenches on the banks of the Suez Canal

  

• Our Notebook (was not produced this week owing to the continued illness of Mr. G.K. Chesterton - articles on Parliament -The Great War by Charles Lowe and The River of Doubt (Amazon) and the list of popular books of the week ................................ The camera as a recorder: News by photography 4 x photographs 1. Late Brigadier General J.E.Gough V.C. 2. Mr Gopal Krishna Gokhale C.I.E. 3. and 4. Where a German bomb fell on the house of Sergeant Radjohn at Colchester

  

• double page = 1 x drawing by R. Caton Woodville -Capturing the position "Prractically by himself": The exploit of Micheal O'Leary. V.C. of the Irish Guards - A deed of valour which probably saved a whole British company: Sergeant O'Leary well ahead of his comrades, shoots the whole crew of a German machine-gun before advancing to attack their next Barricade beyond, in the La Bassée Brickfield

  

• double page = 7 x photographs - Guaranteeing efficiency and comfort: What the British soldier bears to the firing-line - In the haversack : Knife fork spoon and mug, grocery rations, bully beef, biscuits and meat lozenges. In pockets Gloves, purse, penknife, pencil, compass, nail scissors, roll book, tinder lighter, cigarettes, tobacco, handkerchief, pipes. In Knapsack: housewife(sewing repair kit) balaclava helmet, towel, mess tins, socks and holdall. Equipment: braces, right ammunition pouches, entrenching tool, rifle, bayonet, water bottle, straps, pull-through, left ammunition pouches On Person: Braces , belt, socks, vest, shirt, tunic, trousers, cardigan, puttees, service cap, muffler, underpants, bodybelt, boots, overcoat and identity disc

  

• 12 x photographs - "For valour": Officers and men awarded the Victoria Cross- Late Pte J.Mackenzie 2nd Battalion Scots Guards - Late Lieut. J.A.O. Brooke 2nd Battalion Gordon Highlanders - Lieut. Philip Neame Royal Engineers - Private H.H. Robson 2nd Battalion Royal Scots (Lothian Reg) - Private A. Acton 2nd Battalion Border Regiment - Lance-Corpl Micheal O'Leary 1st Battalion Irish Guards - Drummer W. Kenny 2nd Battalion Gordon Highlanders - Late Lieut F.A. de Pass 34th Prince Albert Victors Own Poona Horse - Lieut-Col E.W. Alexander 119th Battery R.F.A. - Private J. Smith 3rd Battalion Border Regiment - Late Capt. J.F. Vallentin 1st Battalion South Staffordshire Regt - Lieut A. Martin-Leake R.A.M.C............................................. A gun whose shell weighs 1000 lb: The enemy 12-inch Howitzer 3 x photographs 1. A projectile which weighs 1000 lb: A shell being wheeled to one of the Austrian 30.5 cm (12 inch) siege howitzers 2. The great siege howitzer used by Austria and Germany when seeking to reduce fortresses: preparing the huge gun for action 3. Not yet as the Austrians had hoped within striking distance of Warsaw: A 12 inch siege-howitzer from the Austrian "Woolwich" which fires a 1000 lb shell with a 1.3 cwt bursting charge
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• double page = drawn by A. Forestier " They sent us in front with a fuse an' a mine": sapping and mining under the enemy's trenches - gaining about one foot of ground per hour: sapping towards the enemy's lines and blowing up a section of his trenches, to prepare for an infantry advance
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• Progress in seiges by sapping and mining by Colonel F.N. Maude C.B Late R.E. 2 x illustrations ............................................... full page drawing by R. Caton Woodville - A false forest: A most ingenious mask for German guns - A "Wood" made of a few growing trees and many bare trunks transported from other places: an imitation forest behind an enemy trench
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• Showing Forts bombarded at the entrance: The Dardanelles (a section of a map prepared by the Hydrographic office and published by the Admiralty) - Where the Forts at Cape Helles and Kum Kaleh were recently bombarded by a British and French fleet: The Western end of the Dardenelles and part of the Gallipoli peninsula .................................................................. full page photograph = Knockers at the gate: ships engaged in the Dardanelles action - Including units of the force which may free corn and oil and munitions of war: British war-ships steaming line ahead - The "Triumph" in the foreground
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• double page photograph = A lurking place of the German high seas fleet: Kiel Harbour - At the beginning of the canal whose deepening gave Germany confidence, and led her to believe that, Britain being passive, she could crush the fleets of France and Russia in turn: German men-of-war in Kiel harbour
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• double page drawing by Frederic Villiers = Changing guard under fire in flooded Flanders: work which is possible only during the night.- Gaining an advanced position almost surrounded by water: French crossing a narrow bridge set on mud_and_débris_filled fascines, to relieve a little garrison
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• full page drawing by Frederic Villiers = Wine bottles in place of crosses: preserving the records - ensuring the identification of the fallen: names and particulars of French dead corked in bottles embedded in their graves, that they may not be obliterated by snow and rain ...................................................... Dead on the field of honour: Officers killed in action - Capt. AP Knocker Hampshire Regt, Lieut. RG Milburn East Surrey Regt, Capt. Reinfred T Arundell 2nd Rajputs, 2nd Lieut. DHL Barnard Royal Field Artillery, Capt. James Pyman Border Regt, Lieut. Geoffrey Sichel 3rd Middlesex Regt, Lieut. Tom Musgrave Irish Guards, Lieut. Philip A Christy 2nd Essex Regt, Lieut. HJ Snowden 1st Herts Regt, Lieut. Geoffrey Mark Penn Rifle Brigade, Lt. Alastair G Menzies Scots Guards, 2nd Lieut. WG Hewitt Royal Scots, Lieut. PD Kendall Liverpool Scottish Regt, Lieut. FF Turner Liverpool Scottish Regt, Major Vincent R Hoare The Rangers, Capt. Lionel F Studd The Rangers, Capt. Robert C Orr Somerset Light Infantry, Capt. WJ Maunsell Scottish Rifles
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• British and German treatment of prisoners: Camp occupations - 1. written illustrated and edited by German prisoners in the Isle of Man: A "Camp Echo" page 2. For British civilian prisoners: The "Ruhleben Camp News" 3. Amateur German journalism in the concentration camp at Douglas (Isle of Man) The cover of the "Camp Echo" 4. Russian prisoners employed by the Germans as snow-sweepers A "Broom Brigade" at Döberitz 5. controlling the prisoners correspondence: A German non-commissioned officer in the Döberitz camp post office 6. showing in the foreground, the Russian chapel: The prison camp laid out by the Germans at Guben 7. Russian prisoners at fire-drill in the Guben camp: an old fashioned hand-engine and primitive water-carrying methods ...................................................... From khaki to goatskin: the evolution of our soldiers' dress
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• Science Jottings - The case for inoculation + a picture and explanation of a Photo Kaleidograph an instrument which makes it possible to fix the patterns of a Kaleidescope photographically for the use of textile and wall-paper designers ................................ full page advert = Buchanan's Scotch Whiskies A cruiser capturing an enemy liner - "Red Seal" 48/- per dozen - "Black & White" 54/- per dozen - "Royal Household" 60/- per dozen
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• article on more about The Photo Kaleidograph + a photograph of With name and nationality readable enough! The Norwegian Oil-tank steamer "Belridge" the first neutral victim of germany's "Sink-at-sight" policy + adverts Robinson & Cleaver's (40D Donegal Place Belfast) Damask table linen, Hall's Distemper from Sisson's Brothers & Co Hull ........................................................... full page advert "The Marseillaise" is the greatest war-song ever written - The "Pianola" Piano enables you to play the National Anthems of the Allied Nations as well as all the marching tunes of our "Tommies" from the Orchestrelle Co.
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• Wills and Bequests - Lieutentant Harry Llanover Davies - Royal horse Artillery - of 9 York gate Regents Park £70,954 , Captain the Hon. William Reginald Wyndham of 12 Great Stanhope Street Mayfair £325,341 , Mr Keith Fraser Arbuthnot of Summers Place Billinghurst Sussex £208,647 , Lord Belper of Kingston Hall Nottingham £218,976 + 2 x photos on this page 1. Tomahawk and scalping knife a memory of the past: The 107 years veteran (Chee-poos-te-tin) of the File Hill indians with the elders of the tribe - 2. Redskin braves who are raising money for the great war: The concert band of the File Hill Indian Agency of South Saskatchewan in Canada - Advert on this page = Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Company Regent Street London ..................................................... adverts = Allenbury's Foods next to human milk the best substitute , Roches's Herbal Embrocation for Hooping Cough and Croup also good for Lumbago, Bronchitis and Rheumatism, Armourial Stained Glass and Memorial Brasses - Leo Culleton, C. Brandauer & Co.'s Ltd. Circular pointed pens, Lemco - A valuable adjuvant to Invalid diet, New Spring Blouses 21/9 & in Fancy Radium 29/6 from Debenham and Peabody
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• The Chronicle of the Car - No Differential - Fighting Astern!- Technical Inaccuracies + 2 x Photographs 1. The 1915 - 16HP Sunbeam 2. The 1915 Maxwell 25, Adverts = Cuticura Soap, The Mexican Hair Renewer, The all British Adair Ganesh Establishment for the treatment of lined puffy eyes - double chins removed 10/- per treatment, - Remarkable offer to investors 8½% if 55 years of age upto 20% if 79 years of age "Sun Life of Canada",Smart Spring Shoes The Delta 12/9 from Lotus Ltd Stafford,.................................................... Adverts = Crème Tokalon complexion cream 1/3 at all chemists, Dr. J Collis Browne's Chlorodyne for coughs and colds, Rowland's Odonto for the accumulation of tartar 2/9, Bedford Buick cars, Goodrich Tyres, 12 HP Rover £350, Turkish baths at home from J. Foot and Son, Fox's frame umbrella's, Benger's Food for invalids, Mr Heinemann's new Books - The Home of the Blizzard ( The story of the Australian antarctic Expedition 1911 to 1914) - Biography of Marie Tarnowska by A Vivanti Chartres 6/- - The Man of iron by Richard Dehan 6/-
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• Chess Problem 3692 by AM Sparke and coverage of Chess in London and the moves in a game Sergeant v Germann, The Playhouses "Florodora" at the Lyric + photo for miniature rifle shooting : The Lord Roberts Memorial Cup, adverts = Mellins Baby Food , Antexema Cream 1/1½ jar, No more ugly ears get a Claxton Ear Cap made in 21 sizes ........................................................ inside back page adverts = read 'The Sketch' every Wednesday 6d, Read ' Illustrated War news' published every Wednesday 6d, read Lady Brassey interviewed about Womans service in time of war in this week's "Lady's Pictorial"
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• outside back full page advert = Pears Soap