The Illustrated London News 1940

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The Illustrated London News "Inside Knowledge" 1 of a series published at the beginning of 1940s

COLLECTION OF PICTORIAL DIAGRAMS

The cover below measures 21x15ins

This book contains the following drawings

A centre page feature measuring a 41in long x 15ins long

and features the

CUNARD LINE

R.M.S QUEEN MARY

This is a superb sectional plan of the Queen Mary and give details like no other has ever done which includes all the usual passenger details but also, ales and stout store,milk,butter & ice cream store,fruit ripening room! fruit stores,vegetable/salad store, fresh/frozen fish,poultry & game,bacon and eggs, hospital,dispensary, printers shop,oil filling station, species room ,beer stores, wines & minerals, registered mails, mail space, general cargo, tanks, baggage, double bottom to name but a few areas that are displayed.

January 20th


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' Captain De Grineaus are The First Authentic Drawings Made in the Maginot Line ...One of the Strong Forts Surrounded by Concealed Anti Tank Traps and Machine Gun Emplacements ... ' wonderful double page drawn by Captain Bryan De Grineau

' Floating Balloon Barrage Units in the Thames Estuary - A Speed Boat Checking on the Barges in Heavy Weather '

' RAF Personnel Attached to the Floating Balloon Barrage in the Thames Estuary Photographed in their Floating HQ ...'

' Aircraftmen of the Balloon Barrage at Sea Being Inspected i nTheir Oilskins and Lifebelts by Air Vice Marshal O. T.Boyd ...'

'Guarding against Aerial Minelayers - A Balloon Anchored to a Barge Watched by RAF Officers From a patrol Boat '

' A Photograph Taken From the Thames Estuary from the Hold of a Balloon Barge ...'

' The ARP Vigil at St Pauls - Their Job to Combat Fire in the Building Caused by Bombs etc ' a wonderful full page drawing by "Sir Muirhead Bone Appointed Official Artist to the Admiralty..."


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Fish

' Short Snouted Sturgeon Acipenser Guldenstadtii ' - - - ' A Cornish Fish - The Pilchard ...' - - - ' The Cod Gadus Morrhua ' - - - ' A Young Nurse Hound Scyllium Catulus '


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' The Bombardier Gun Layer Has Just Fired This Gun Howitzer - The Latest Artillery Development ' full page drawn by C. E.Turner from a sketch made at the Front


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Victors in The River Plate

' Interned By the Uruguayans for Assisting the Admiral Graf Spee - The Tacoma ...'

' The" Achilles " Steaming Slowly into Buenos Aires on 3 Januuary ....'

' The " Ajax " Berthed in Montevideo Showing Four of Her Eight 6inch Guns ...' ' Mister Millington Drake and Sir Henry Harwood Shaking Hands in Montevideo '

' Enjoying Their First Shore Leave Since The Defeat f the Admiral Graf Sppee: Men of the Ajax on Horseback Outside Montevideo '

' Montevideo's Welcome To The Ajax - An Enormous Crowd Watching With Sir Henry Harwood - Mr Millington Drake (British Minister in Montevideo) - and Uruguayan Army and Navy Officers '

' Sunk After Being Mined off the South East Coast - Two Views of the Union Castle Steamship " Dunbar Castle " Lying partly Submerged ... ' full page - article makes reference to Captain H. A. Causton who died from his wounds and Chief Officer Mr H. H. Robinson who Witnessed the disaster

' TheSpitfire - Loading up the long Belt of Ammunition '

' The Spitfire - Cartridge Cases Dropping from the Fixed Browings to the Ground - The Spitifires Eight Machine Guns in Action From a Stationary Plane ...'


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The Effect of Frost on Hollands Defences

' Dutch Soldiers "Attacking" a Farm on Skates During Manoeuvres on the Frozen Water ']

' A Tank Sticking Fast Where the Ice has Thawed ...'

' Infantry with Light Machine Guns and Rifles Practising on a Frozen Waterway ...'

'Another Example of the Help of Semi Thawed Ice: An Armoured Car Makes No Headway Once the Ice Breaks '

' A Section Advancing Rapidly on Skates During Recent Manoeuvres '

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The War in Finland

' One of the Russian Tanks Captured by the Finns - An Anonymous Hero Climbed on it and shot the Crew Through the Sight Holes '

' Burning, Before Retreating, All Shelter in the Path of the Invader '

' A Bareheaded Finnish Detachment raying Before Going into Action '

' Russian Prisoners Entering a Bath House ...'

' Prisoners Verminous Clothing Being Burned in the Snow at a Finnish Police Outpost ...'

' Soviet Dead Frozen Where they Fell, Caught by the Finns in the Snow Covered Forests'

' A Pile of Bolshevik War Booty Captured by the Finns ...'

' Finnish Medical Staff Dressing a Soldiers Wound at A Field Dressing Station in a Wooden Shelter in teh Salla Sector ...'

' Placing a Casualty in an Ambulance, Screened with Saplings in the Salla Sector '

' A Finnish Encampment in a Snow Covered Tract on the Northern Front ...'

' A Motor Cycle with Skis Drawing a Trailer Fitted With Runners '

Double page with article making reference to the destruction of the Russian 44th Division - - Lake Kianta - Salla And Petsamo Regions


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A Tigress About To Chase Crows Away From Her Kill - Taken By Mr Champion the Famous Big Game Photographer ' double page


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' the Earthquakes and Sisasters in Turkey

' Erzindjan - a Family huddled Round a Fire Outside a Make Shift Hut '

' Erzindjan - Showing An Emergency Tent for a Homeless Family Amongst the Ruins ...'

' A Woman Shivering Outside Her Rough Shelter - In a Region Where Hundreds Died from Exposure ...'

' Homeless Survivors Watching Rescue Operations Beneath a Collapsed Building ...'

' TheTurkish President Consoling a Peasant Woman in a Stricken Village '

' Household Belongings Retrieved From Ruins Assembled in a Camp Formed for Survivors '

' A pathetic Picture of an Anatolian peasant Woman Nursing Her Child Beneath a Hastily Erected Shelter amid The Wreckage of Her Home '

' The Desperate Atempts to Bring Supplies to Survivors - A Relief Train Held Up BySevere Weather ...'

' A Soldier on Guard Outside a Collapsed Building in One of theONce Prosperous Towns Now a Heap of Ruins '

' Mounted Turkish Troops at Erzindjan ...'

' The Ruins of the Grand Mosque at Erzindjan ...'

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' The Author of "From 1900 Onward" Admiral Sir Reginald Bacon '

' Winston Churchill '


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Evacuated to Blackpool - Ministry of Health Staff from London

' Work Going on in a Ballroom of a Luxury Hotel '

' Working in the Solarium with its Coloured Glass Walls '

Plus photographs of three other locations in the luxury hotel

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' The Wreckage Caused by a Hit on a Trinity Light Vessel ...'

' The Wrecked Bridge of the Trinity House Vessel After The Attack ...'

' A View from the Galley of the Trihnity House Vessel ...'

' Women Pilots to Deliver Planes to the RAF From the Factories - Teh Womens Section of the Air Transport Auxiliary - Eight Lady Pilots '

' The Beatty and Jellicoe Memorials in Trafalgar Square Left unfinished Until Peace ...'

' Special Khaki Uniform for Salvation Army Women Officers Going to France: Photograph Showing Two ladies, Comparing the Old and the Wartime Head Dresses '

' A Crowd in an East Coast Town Watching Anti Aircraft Shells Bursting Round an Enemy Raider .....'


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Personalities of the Week

' Captain F. P. Barclay Awarded TheMilitary Cross by Lord Gort ...'

' Lord Gort Talking With Air Marshal A. S.Barratt .....'

' M. Paul Reynaud French Minister of Finance ...'

' Count Csaky the Hungarian Foreign Minister And CountCiano in Venice ...'

' Queen Mary Visiting Middlesex Hospital - Welcomed by the Nurses ...'

' French Newspaper Owners in London - Guests of the British Council - Mr. H. N. Hall (Brtsh Embassy in Paris) - M.Marsillac of Le Journal - - M. Houssaye of Havas Agency - - M. Chastenet of Le Temps - - M. Gaubert Vice Pres. of French Newspapapers Federation - - M. Miel - - M. Brisson of Le Figaro - - M. Dupuy of Le Petit Parisien '

' An American Christmas Scene at the White House Party - Mrs Franklin D. Roosevelt - Mrs Sarah Delano Roosevelt - Mrs Franklyn D. Roosevelt Junior with Young Franklin on her lap - - President Roosevelt - - Mrs John Boettiger - - Franklin Roosevelt Jnr - - John Roosevelt - - Anna Eleanor Dall - - Diana Hopkins andCurtis Dall Jnr - - Plus a little child toddler crawling away from the main group '


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' The " Undine " One of Three British Submarines Believed Lost ...'

' The " Starfish " One of the Three Submarines Lost ' the other being " Seahorse "

' The Danube Covered With Ice at Budapest - One of Germany Few Remaining Trade Routes Blocked ...'

' 'After Bombs Had Fallen on Roemoe theDanish Island Which Adjoins Sylt A Nazi Minelaying Base - The Local Postmaster Standing in One of the Craters....'

' A Power Operated Multiple @Gun Turret in a British Fighter ...'

' The " Witussi " a German Liner Caught By South African Flying Boats ans Scuttled When it Became Clear She Would Habe to Go into Simonstown - On Fire and Sinking '

' One of the Hallstatt Period Grave Mounds Near the Hili of Sag in Hungary - Three Diagrams ' --Plu a Map Showing the Position of the Hill of Sag near Celldomolk in Hungary

' Pottery - Childrens Toys - Swords - Dishes - Vases etc From the Iron Age Discoveries in Teh Settlement on the Hill of Sag in Hungary ' Double page

' A Tigress Reclining Beside Her Kill - Photograph By Mr F. W. Champion of the Indian Forest Service ...' Plus Two other photographs by Mr Champion

' Dr Antonio de Oliveira Salazar - Prime Minister of Portugal ' a wonderfull full page from a painting by Henrique Medina


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Cinema

' On the Set During the Screening of A. J. Cronins "The Stars Look Down" - Michael Redgrave - Margaret Lockwood - Carol Reed (Director ) - Emlyn Williams '

' A Mine Scene from "The Stars Look Down" - Emlyn Williams and Michael Redgrave '

' Scene from "The Light That Failed" - Ronald Coleman - Muriel Angelus '

' Scene from "The Light That Failed" - Ida Lupino '


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' Print Promoting the War Effort by Arthur J. W. Burgess - Advert for Northern Aluminium Company ' it looks like a short s30 empire aeroplane maybe Sunderland Mark I or some kind of Sunderland Flying Boat, not sure, but its about to rescue the crew of a sinking ship (Im not getting into which ship!)

' Moss Bros of Covent Garden - Officers Greatcoats '

' 28 Palace Street Canterbury - The Old Dutch House ' in the Notable Numbers Series of Adverts for Number 3 Cigarettes


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Postage Stamps

' Belgium - Bruges Cathedral '- Belgique

' Luxemburg - the GrandDuchess Charlotte ' - Luxumbourg

' Denmark - Queen Alexandrine ' - Danmark

' Newfoundland - TheFirst War Provisional 4 cents '

' A Little Bovril promoted Energy ' a full page colour advert of a man chasing a young bull

GEC Electric Kettle ' advert < P>



This second part of the description features items of news articles etc but have no images associated with the subject matter unless listed above. They include :-
Our Note Book by Arthuyr Bryant

The World of Science - Teh Varied Uses of Fish Oils by W. P. Pycraft

Books of the Day by Charles E. Byles

The War With Nazi Germany: The War in the Air by Cyril Falls

Submarines, Armaments and The Dover Patrol "From 1900 Onward" by Admiral Sir Reginald Bacon KCB KCVO DSO - An Appreciation by Sir John Squire

On The Threshold of History in Central Europe: The Tombs of Rulers of Settlement at Hill of Sag Western Hungary by Eugen Lazar - info - possibly pron. Saghegy or Sag-hegy

The World of the Kinema by Ivor Brown

Unique Photographs of a Tigress at Home - A Temperamental Jungle Lady ... By F. W. Champion MA FZS Indian Forest Service - info. A pioneer of wildlife photography

Books of the Day By charles E. Byles

The Art of th ePostage Stamp

 

January 27th

Heligoland From the Air - Three Examples ...Heligoland at the End of the Last War (1914-18) - - - Heligoland as it Appeared WHen Germany Began Refortification (1937-38) - - - A Photograph Secured by The RAF ' front page

' The Only Bitish War Artist on the Western Front - Captai Bryan De Grineau MC ' SleekburnC.

' Capt. De Grineau A War Artist on the Western Front in Two Wars: A Drqwing Mady the Captain De Grineau When He Was Serving as a Gunner at Beaumont Hamel in 1917 ...'

' An Impressionistic Drawing ....French Artillery Forward observation Post Showing a British Officer With French Observer and A Signaller Behind Telephoning ORders ....' drawn by Captain Bryan De Grineau

' The Famous Soixante Quinze Still in Action - A French 75 Gun on the British Sector of the Maginot Line ' by Bryan de Grineau

' Going to Work by Bicycle and Tramway in the Undergournd of the Maginot Line - The Closely Guarded Tunnels Showing Troops on small trams and a soldier on a bicycle ' a wonderful double page "Drawn by Our Special War Artist in France Bryan de Grineau

' A Seaweed Used in the West of Ireland for Human Food as Well as For Feeding Cattle - The Carragheen or Irish Moss ( Chondrus Crispus )...'

' The Channelled Wrack - Pelvetia Canaliculata '

' A Brown Seaweed Used for Glandular Swellings and Anti Fat Preparations - The Bladder Wrack Fucus Vesiculosus '

"Nazi Propaganda Boasts - That Betrays ..." - Three sketches from a German War Artist SleekburnC.

' A U Boat Captures a Freighter '

' German Airmen Attack an English Patrol Ship '

' Not Even Safe in Convoy - A Merchant Ship Being Torpedoed '

' On Leave in Paris - French Equivalent of a Sight Common in London ' a frenchman back from the front met by his fiancee - Drawing by J. Simont

RAF Aerial Photography

' An RAF Air Photograph of a German Aerodrome Near Hanover Showing Bombers Taking Off ...' Full page aerial photograph

' RAF Photograph of the German Naval Base At Wilhelmshaven ' aerial photograph

' Munster ' aerial photograph with a Key showing - Gas Holders - Motor Transport Sheds - Barracks - Railway Sidings - Allotment Gardens - Aerodrome - etc

' Seaplane Base on Sylt ' with a key showing various buildings etc

' Town of Osnaburck on the River Hase in Hanover ' key showing various areas adn buildings

' Oldengburg ' with key

' The Docks At Harburg near Hanover ' full page aerial photograph

Personalities of the Week

' Acting Wing Commander Richard Kellett DFC '

' Aircraftman C. R. Driver DFM Aged Nineteen ...' - info Charles Ronald

' Pilot Officer G. W. F. Carey DFC '

' Mister R. A. Smithe Keeper at the British Museum Dies aged sixty seven ...'

' Mister R. J. Sykes Chairman of London Press Exchange Dies aged 77'

' Senator William E. Borah Dies Aged 74 '

' General Smuts Back at Groote Schuur - South African Prime Minister With Mrs Smuts and Their Grandaughter '

' The Queen at ALdershot Command - Chatting with a Sergeant '

' Princess Alice with the Commander Miss Mary Runciman of A British Ambulance Unit for the Womens Transport Service (F.A.N.Y.) to work with The Finnish Red Cross '

' The King and Queens Visit to Aldershot Command - Bonnets Off, The King Receiving Three Cheers from Scottish Troops - the Queen Looking on with others '

Zuyder Zee Holland - ' Men of An Ice Breaker Cought by th eFloes, Call for Assitance by Writing "Hulp Spoedig" (Immediate Assistance) in Coal on the Ice and the Ice Breaker Friesland Which Was Damaged ' two photographs

' Holland - A Circular Ice Saw 'Cutting Across a Frozen stretch '

' At Staten Island New York - A Huge Fleet of Lorries Awaiting Shipment, in the Foreign Trade Area, For France '

' TheWaltham Abbey Gunpowder Factory Explosion - One of Many MArke tGardeners Glass Houses Wrecked '

' Rome - Ski-ers on the Montagna del Duce Looking like a Swiss Ski Slope '

' Australia - Six Thousand "Diggers" of the Australian Expeditionary Force Swinging Down Martin place in Sydney On Their Last Parade Before Sailing Overseas ' a wonderful full page photograph with the General Post Office and TheNational Bank of Australia with Pitt Street Beyond '

Life in the Sunderland Flying Boats

'In The Cockpit - Sergeant Navigator Checking His Position with a Bubble Sextant '

' The "Chart Room" on Board a Sunderland Flying Boat Working Out a Position with His Complex Instruments '

' One of the Big Short Sunderlands on Coastal Patrol Duty .....'

' The Side Gunners at Their Positions ....'

' A Photograph Conveys the Immense Size of the Sunderland with the Four Gun Turret in the Tail ' also shows two crew in the water and others on the top of the plane

Double page

' Drill on a New British 25 Pounder gun Howitzer Mounted on a Ground Wheel .....'

' The Destroyer " Grenville " Which Was Sunk by Mine or Torpedo in the North Sea '

' A British Destroyer Sunk, It Was Feared, With the Loss of All Hands - Flotilla Leader HMS " Exmouth " Commanded by R. S Benson .....'

' AnElectrically Propelled Vehicle's Chassis Showing How the Batteries Are Carried '

' Hauling on Board Fish Killed by a Depth Charge Explosion .....'

Finnish Ski Troops Bringing in Soviet prisoners After The Battle of Suomussalmi ...'

' Taisto Maki the Finnish Holder of Five Running Records, Reported to be Wounded By a Shell Splinter '

' The Equipment for W.T's Ambulance Drivers for Finland .....'

' Finnish Soldiers Gathereid in teh Lamplight for Hot Refreshment .....'

' Finnish Troops Rushing into the Cover Provided by Pinewoods During a Low Flying Bombing Raid by Russian Planes ......'

' Swedish Aid for Finnish Wounded - An Injured Man Being Treated by Nurses Belonging to the Swedish Red Cross .....'

Lake Kianta and Suomusalmi

' A Soviet Amphibian Tank '

' Part of a Vast Quantity of War Material Abaandoned by the Reds '

' Finnish Soldiers Removing a Russian Feield Gun Left by the Fleeing Soviet Forces after Suomussalmi '

' Russian Tank Which over Ran Its Own Anti Tank Gunds at Suomusalmi .....'

' Finnish Soldiers with a Soviet Quadruple Barrelled Anti Aircraft Machine Gun on the Suomusalmi Front .....'

' An Appalling Scene Marking the Place where a russian Column Was Caught in a Clearing, During the Defeat of the Soviet 44th Division ......'

' A Captured Coach Used as a Soviet Army Wireless Wagon ' - A Relic of the Crimea?

' Dead and Unidentifiable Russians of the Routed 44th Division Lying Where They Fell after Suomusalmi ......'

' Prisoners from the 44th Division Awaiting Transport to a Prison Camp '

' A Soviet Soldier Lying Frozen as He Fell, Shot in the Very Act of Trying to Connect Field Telephone Wires .....'

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' The ARP SEvices - Reinforcements from the London Region Together With Units of the SE Region .....'

' ARP Equipment from the London Region at Chatham During the Large Scale Demonstration .....'

' ARP Practice at Paddington .....'

' The Duke of Windsor at the Sandbagged Entrance of His London Hotel .....'

' King Faruk Being Greeted by General Macreedy the Miel Commandant of the British Military Mission in egypt - At Abbasieh near Cairo '

' Mary The Princess Royal Serves Tea to Soldiers in the Station Canteen at York Run By The WVS, wearing The Uniform Of the ATS ' - Auxiliary Territorial Service (later renamed the Women's Royal Army Corps )

IMperial Airways Flying Boat " Corsair " in the Belgian Congo

' Lying Half Submerged in the River Dangu After Striking a Hidden Rock When Taking Off From a Specially Constructed Dam .....'

' Being Manoeuvred Down The Narrow Channel For Turning Into the Artifickal Lake .....'

' Natives Fetching Stone Quarried Near by For Constructing The Dam ....'

' The Damaged Plane Lying Half submerged in the River Dangu with One Wing Jacked Up by Pontoons .....'

' The Dam Constructed by Native Labour From Local Materials '

' TheHole Made in the Hull of the Airliner by The Forced Landing '

Full page

Strategy of the Finnish War and the Chief Sectors and Events - Six Maps

' A General Map of Finland .....'

' The Petsamo Front Where the Russians Have Been Held Up .....'

' TheSuomosalmi Sector .....'

' TheSalla Sector .....'

' The Front North of Lake Ladoga ...'

' The Finnish Sector .....'

Foreign Correspondents at the Ministry of Information - M.O.I.

' News of Wartime Britain for Buenos Aires - Mr Spearman of " La Nacion " at Work with Refreshments Being Brought Him By His Wife '

' M. Gunner Henriksen Reading Over a Copy in the Press room - London Correspondent of the Danish Paper " Politiken " ...'  SleekburnC.

' Making Notes From an Official Press Report is Dr H. W. Egli of the Swiss Papers " Neue Zuricher Zeitung " and " Der Bund " .....'

' Mr T. A. Raman of the " Hindustani Times " Delhi, Discussing the Days News with Miss Palmer of the " National Tidende " Copenhagen ....'

' Miss Molly McGee The London Correspondent of the " Toronto Mail and Globe " Canada - Looking at Her Type Script ......'

' M. Stefan Litauer TheWellKnown polish Journalist and president of the Foreign Press Association, Talks to Sir John Cameron The Chief of Foreigh Affairs ...'

' A Foreign Correspondent Booking His Telephone Call .....'

' Mr Rea of " La Stampa " Talking With His Editor in Turin Italy .....'

' The Censor CanInstantly Cut Off the Call '

' M. Stefan Litauer - M. Juho Timonen The Finnish Journalist of " Uusi Suomi " of Helsinki - and Miss Palmer of " Nationale Tidende "...' or National Tidende

Double Page

Excavations in Cyprus

' The Remains of a Great Neolithic Settlement at Khirokitia Between Nicosia and Limassol in Cyprus '

' Stone Shallow Rectangular Bowl '

' Rare Clay Bowl Uneathed During The 1939 Excavations '

' A Lifelike Male Head - A Chthonic Deity ...'

' A Model of a Circular Enclosure with a Sacrifice to the Chthonic Earth Deities Discovered at Vounous ...'

' IN TheHouse o fSacrifice Showing Infant Remains on Adult Skeletons with Other Infant Skeletons in Holes ...'

' Lower Floor in the House, Where Infants Were Sacrificed, Showing The Throne .....'

' TheEnd of th e " Colombus " The German Liner Scuttled When Her Attempt to Run The Allied Blockade Failed - In The North Atlantic ' three photographs showing "the outbreak of fire near the Liners mainmast - The Ship ablaze - and the US cruiser which Picked up the Crew"

The World Through Animals Eyes

' How a Room Appears to A Dog - A Monochrome Scene .....'

' How a Barnyard Apears to a Fly - The Mosaic Effect .....'

' TheFisherman as a Fish Sees Him .....'

' How a Barnyard Appears to a Hen .....'

Full page

'.... "All Clear " at the Queens Theatre - Beatrice Lillie as TheCountess, Gathering Information from All in the Noel Coward Skit n Spy Stories "Secret Service" ...' SleekburnC.

' Beatrice Lillie as Master Ernest in "Sic Transit Gloria" Teh Diverting Duet Betwwen the Two Choirboys ...'

' Bobby Howes Waring as A Choirboy Master Reggie ...'

' ..."Lullaby Balloon" sung By Bobby Howes and Fred Emney in "All Clear"...'

' Margaret Lockwood Affects the Heart - Howards Aspirin Does Not ' advert

' The Thresher Trench Coat - Thresher and Glenny Ltd ' advert

' Midland Bank Limited Statement of Accounts '

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This second part of the description features items of news articles etc but have no images associated with the subject matter unless listed above. They include :-

Our Note Book by Arthuyr Bryant

The World of Science - Edible and Medicinal Seaweeds by W. P. Pycraft FZS

Sickle And Swastika - "Hitler Speaks" By Hermann Rausching "...I Was Stalins Agent..." by W. G. Krivitsky - An Appreciation by Sir John Squire '

The War with Nazi Germany: The Western Front in the Picture by Cyril Falls

Cypriot Ingant Sacrifices to the Earth Gods, in the 4th Millennium, At Khirokitia - By P. Dikaios The Curator of the Cyprus Museum and Director of the Excavations at Khirokitia ( Porphyros Dikaios )

Books of the Day - The World under The Sea by r. Webster Smith - - - Celluloid Safari By Stirling Gillespie FRGS - - - Columnby Charles E. Byles

The World of theatre by Ivor Brown

 

 

 

April 6th

May 18th

' During a Recent Defence Test - Driving a Field Gun with Horses in a Flooded Area ... '

' A Flooded Field in a Dutch Village Next to a Canal ...'

' Dutch Soldiers Wearing Waterproof Thigh Boots in the Flooded Country ..'

' A Machine Gun Carrier Being Man Handles in a Flooded Zone ...'

' A Light Tank Ditched in a Flooded Area ...'

Full page

Winston Churchill 's Cabinet

' Sir Archibald Sinclair '

' Mr Anthony Eden '

' Mr Clement R. Atlee '

' The Right Hon. A. V. Alexander '

' Mr Churchill '

' The Rt. Hon. Arthur Greenwood '

' Lord Lloyd '

' Right Hon. Herbert Morrison '

' Mr Bevin '

' Mr. L. S. Amery '

' Mr Duff Cooper '

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Holland From the Air

' Rotterdam - An Air View of the Maas '

' Rotterdam - The Norder Island With Bridges in the Centre of the City Where Nazi parachutists Were Rounded Up ...'

' Rotterdam and The Country to the South - The Norderisland - Waalhaven Airport - Marine Maas ' etc

' Rotterdam Town Hall and Post Office with Th eBeurs a Few Steets Away Seized By Parachutists ...'

' The Oostplein For a Time the Principal Nazi Vantage point on the North Bank '

' The Bridges Over The Hollandsches Diep Near Moerdyk .....'

' Amsterdam Seen from the East - Ymuiden in the Distance ....'


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The Belgian Army

' The Chasseurs Ardennais ...'

' Belgian Infantry Accompnying Guns ...'

' Belgian Chasseurs Ardennais with a Trench Mortar and Light Howitzer ...'

' Belgian Chasseurs ...'

A Belgian Motor Cyclist ...'

' A Casemate and Asparagus Anti Tank Rails in a Belgian Defensive Position ...'

' A Belgium Aritllery Position ...'


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' Nazi Air Attack During the British Advance - Passing Over a Level Crossing - "The Germans Bombed the Railway but with Little Effect" ...' a full page drawing by Bryan De Grineau signed and dated Belgium May 10 1940


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' 1914 - Repeated with a Difference

The BEF ( British Expeditionary Force ) Advances into Belgium - While Refugees Depart

' French and British Troops Advancin Along the Road to Liege ...'

' The Belgium Refugees Again Flee From Germany Hordes - Women and Children on Open Lorries ...'

' The Local People Gesturing Thumbs Up and Throwing Lilac to the British Troops in a Belgium Town '

' the Barrier is Raised on the French Belgian Border to Admit British Troops ...'

Double page of sketches by "Our Special War Artist on the Western Front Captain Bryan De Grineau " with hand written notes within the drawings


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British and German Troop Carriers

' the Junkers JU 52 Aircraft - the Standard Troop Carrier of the Luftwaffe ... '

' The Latest British Troop Carrying Aircraft The Bristol Bombay ...'

' Junkers Ju 89-90 The Famous Large passenger Machine as Adapted for Troop Carrying ...'

Three diagrammatical drawings by Mister G. H. Davis on a full page


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Invasion by Parachute Armies

' Three Sectional Drawings Illustrate Different Methods of Troop Landings by German Parachutists '

Plus four other diagrammatical drawings by G. H. davis showing German Troop Carrying Ability


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' Invasion by Parachute - The Technique Miel Originated by russia Put into Large Scale Operation by the Nazis ' a wonderful double page of illustrations by C. E. Turner in sepia style

' Map Showing Aerodromes and Inundation Areas (floods) ' a maps showing the " Low Countries " Holland Belgium Luxemburg N. France etc - a large double page map

' The Scene of the German Break Through The Belgium Lines ... A Map of the Country Between Brussels and Liege and South of the Albert Canal with Vital Communications '

RAF Bomb NAzi Troops at Katwijk and Waalhaven

' Planes on the Beach at Katwijk North of the Hague Photographed by RAF Bombers ...'

' After The Bombing One of the Junkers can Be Seen Flung up The Beach ...'

' Waalhaven Aerodrome Near Rotterdam - Buildings Completely Demolished and Still Burning ...' aerial view from the RAF bombers


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Precautions Taken in Britain Against Nazi Invasion

' Police and Troops Stopping Cars to Check ID ...'

' Halting Cars - Another Method of Stopping and Checking Id ...'

' Sandbags and An Old Farm Wagon Slow Down Traffic Along a Coastal Road ...'

' Rehearsing - Troops Erecting Sandbag Walls Agcross pavements ...'

' A Lorry Conveyting Aliens Arriving at an Internment Camp ...'

' A Trestle and Barbed Wire Barricade Across a Road ...'


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People in the Public Eye

' Sir Terence O'Connor Died ..'

' the Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxemburg Arriving in Paris with Her Husband, Eldest Son and Mother After Escaping the German Invasion ..'

' the Dutch Royal Family Escape the Nazi Gansters: Princess Juliana with Her Children Crossing the Road in to the Gardens of Eaton Square '

' Prince Bernhard Helping to Carry His Youngest Daughter in a Gas Proof Cot on Arrival In England '

' The Prince and Princess of Piedmont Leaving the Vatican After a Visit to the Pope '

' Princess Marie Jose of Piedmont Arriving at the Papal Mass iin the Dress of a Red Cross Nurse ...'

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' The Royal Canadian Mounted Police Training in England - Riding Motor Cycles ...'

A Long Line of Riders of the Royal Canadian Mounted police and Their Machines ...'


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Homes Wrecked by Nazi Bombs in Belgium Holland And France

' Homes on Fire in the Vicinity of Schiphol Aerodrome after it was Bombed ...'

' A Street Near Schiphol Airport - Houses on Fire Caused by Incendiary Bombs - ARP workers arriving ...'

' A Ruined Street in Nancy ...'

' Smoke Pouring from the Ruins of a Wrecked House After a Bombardment of Brussels ...'

' A Scene of Destruction in Belgium by German Bombs ...'

' The Interior of a House Destroyed by Bombs in a Town in the Paris Region...'

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British Warships and A Convoy Bombed ...

' One of The Long Series of Futile Air Attacks on British Warships in the North Sea and off Norway - A Salvo Falling Astern a Britsh Destroyer '

' The " Rodney " Which is Hit by a Bomb The Same Evening ...'

' The Multi Pom Poms Used By the Royal Navy ...'

' Another Miss ...'

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' During a Bombing Raid on a Convoy off Norway ....'

' Two Warships in Station Ahead of the Aircraft Carrier ...' photographed from the aircraft carrier

' Bombs Falling 100 Yards Away fromn ther Aircraft Carrier ...'

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The Bombing of Namsos and Aandalsnes

' Smoke and Flames Rising from the Small Norwegian Port of Aandalsnes were British Troops Were Landed ....'

' The Bombing of a Street in Namsos - Mr B. M. Powell a US Camera Man Describing the Incessant Attacks, Stated ....'

' Stretcher Bearers Hurrying Along a Road in Namsos .....'

' A French Sailor on Duty Before the Ruins of a Church After Systematic Bombing in Namsos ....'

' Namsos Harbour - British Escort Vessel HMS Bittern On Fire After an Epic Fight off the Norway Coast .....'

' A Remarkable Photograph Taken on Board The " Bittern " After A Heavy Bomb Had Hit Her ... Her Guns Pointing Skywards Still in Action ..'

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' British and Allied Troops Marching Alongside the Quayside on theeir Arrival at A North Scottish Prot From Norway ...'

' On Board a British Warship Just After Re-Embarkation at Namsos - A Frenchman Englishman and Norwegian ...'

' The Blud Devils Disembark: The Scene on the Quayside as th eFamous French Troops The Chasseurs Alpins Arrived on British Soil ...'

' A Chasseur Alpin Mounts Guard over His Comrades Equipment After Eisembarkation ...'

' General Carton De Wiart VC Who Commanded the Troops at Namsos Photographed on His Retur with Members of the Friends Ambulanc Unit ...'

' Smiling Blue Devils With a Bundle of The Skis ...'

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' The Great Spotted Woodpecker '

' The Wryneck '

' TYhe Rare Ivory Billed Woodpecker Campophilus Principalis of Mexico and S. US ...'

' Burberrys Uniforms ' advert

' The Latest Hillman Minx Saloon Model in Surrey ...'

' Mappin And Webb - A Sterling Silver Dressing Table Service for Ladies ...' advert

' Steradent ' advert

' Horlicks ' Advert

' Lieut. E. Grahame Johnstone DSC RNVR - by Doris Zinkeisen ' small portrait

' The Eclipse Red Ring Razor ' advert

' The North British Rubber Co Ltd ' - An advert with a comical poem about golf and a golf club etc - Colour

' Swan Pens ' advert

' KLG Sparking Plugs ' advert


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This second part of the description features items of news articles etc but have no images associated with the subject matter unless listed above. They include :-
Our Note Book by Arthuyr Bryant

Books of the Day by Charles E. Byles - reviews include Independent Egypt by Amine Youssef Bey - - - Cities and Men By Inman Barnard

The War With Nazi Germany by Cyril Falls

The World of Science - World Varieties of theWoodpecker by W. P. Pycraft FZS

The Chronicle of the Car by Harold Nockolds

 

 

June 22nd

June 29 th

July 6th

July 13th

 

 

August 10th

The Home Guards at Osterley Park Middlesex - Blowing Up Tanks, A Demonstrtion at the School for Guerilla Warfare ' Full Front page

'...." Alcantara " The British Armed Liner Which Hit the Disguised German Auxiliary in Action off Briazil ' with reference to Captain J. G. P. Ingham DSO RN

' The Clean Lines and Absence of Excrescences on The Hurrican Fighter Compared with The Numerous Excrescences on the German Messerschmitt ME 109 Fighter ' Full page with explanation - Diagrammatical drawing by G. H. Davis

Gibraltar and How a Secret Weapon Failed Against It in 1782

' A British Inventors Improvement ...A Section Drawing of a Bomb Proof Floating Battery Miel Reproduced From an Unpublished Manuscript - By Sir William Congreve ....'

' The Repulse of the Floating Batteries .. Painting By Sir Thomas Whitcomb ...'

' Gibraltar From the Mediterranean Side Showintg the Rain Catchments...' photograph

' Aerial View of Gibraltar ....'

' The Approach from Spanish Road Showing Galleries Blasted From the Rock ...'

' Aerial View From Spain - The Township of La Linea and its Bull Ring, No Mans Land and The Only Road into Gibraltar Town ...'

' Aerial Vie Taken From the Rock Looking into Spain ...'

' A Mid 18c Plan of Gibraltar Showing Spanish Batteries and British Defences in the Siege of 1727 .. "Plan of the Peninsula and Part of the Isthmus of Gibraltar ..." ..'

' An Aerial View of the Rock ...'

' A Modern Map of Gibraltar ...In Comparason with the 18c Plan ...'

Double page with photographs by Messrs Thomas Cook and Son, Ocean Pictures and Flandrin, Gibraltar

Drawings for the Illustrated London News by The Official Polish War Artist Feliks Topolski

' A Volunteer From Argentina - A Polish Soldier '

' An English Lesson in The Open Air for the Poles at One of Their Camps in Scotland ' with handwritten notes by the artist within the drawing

' A Polish Infantry Officer ' - handwritten notes by the artist within the drawing

' Polish Infantryman in an International Mixture of Uniform ...' - handwritten notes by the artist within the drawing

' A chaplain in the Polish Army ...' handwritten notes within the drawing

' Officer of The Mountain Brigade Which Fought in Norway and France ...' - handwritten notes within the drawing

' Oflficers and Men Listening to a Comrade Playing Chopin at a Concert they Gave to Scottish People .....' - handwritten notes within the drawing

' Lady Warrender President of the "Polish Armed Forces Comforts Fund" at a Camp .....'

' General Dreszer Taking Over the Command of the Mechanised Cavalry, Under General Maczek, Now Missing, Fought Bravely in France .....' handwritten notes within the drawing

' A Touching Message ... Displayed Behind An Accordion Player at a Concert in Scotland '

' Information About Lost Families Being Read by aSoldier ....'

A Wonderful double page

' The Ankara School of Civil Aviation in Turkey...'

' Ankara Turkey - Ataturk Boulevard

' Caterpillar Lorry with Searchlight Tender of The Turkish Army ..'

' General Ismet Inonu TheTurkish President Addressing the Peoples Party Conference ...'

' Body Armour and Protective Visors for The Army etc ' with an explanation and comparison with protective items of 1914-18 and earlier year - Diagrammatical Drawings on a Full page by "Our Special Artist G. H. Davis "

' A German Military Ceremony in "Paris Place" Berlin ...'

' A Berlin Divison of Infantry on Its Return From France Marching Through the Streets ...'

' German Troops Marching Through Brandenburger Tor into Unter Den Linden - Swastikas Hanging from the Gate ' Brandenburg

' German Schnellboote or Schnellboot - Motor Torpedo Boats ....'

' A German MTB at Speed .....'

'On Board a Motor Torpedo Boat - Loading a Torpedo ....'

' The Crew of an S-Boot (or S-Boote ) Crew Sight Their objective .....'

' A German Sailor Hand Poised Awaiting to Fire a Torpedo .....' the sailors cap has Schnellboot-Flottillen on the cap tally or band

France - The French National Assembly in the Theatre of TheCasino De Vichy .....'

' Pierre Laval Deputy Prime Minister in the petain Government Arriving at the Casino de vichy .....' two other men also in the photograph

' King George VI Knighting Air Marshal Barratt CinC RAF in France '

' Captain Ervine-Andrews at Buckingham Palace Awaiting the VC ' with another man seated next to him

' Miss Bertha Herring Awarded an MBE by The King at Buckingham Palace ...' for help in arresting Udham Singh

' Londons Defences - Queen Elizabeth Watching an Anti Aircrart Gun Being Trained '

' Hull - the King and Queen Speaking with VIctims of Air Raids in a Bombed Street ...'

' The King Presenting the OBE to Mrs Cardwell Who Captured a German Airman Single Handed '

' Norwich - A Police at The Entrance to a Shelter Which Withstood the Blast of a Bomb '

' Hull - The Queen Talking to the Mother of a Boy ....' in a row with other women

The article makes reference to Mrs Florence Goutrey of Hull talking to the King and also a boy of thirteen in a bombed street

' Britains Defence Exercise - A Mobile Reserve Division of Northern Command Attacking an Aerodrome "Captured" by the Enemy ...' a fascinating scene showing the troop movements, Vehicles, Bicycles, Armoured tanks or Beaverettes and Buses etc with the village in the background and a hovering Lysander in the distance - A double page drawing "Specially Drawn ...by Captain Bryan De Grineau "...

' Philadelphia - USA's Huge Reserve of Old Destroyers - " Flushdeckers " Laid up in the Docks ' an amazing aerial photograph of the docks crammed full of these ships at Philadelphia

South African Troops

' Africa - Acting Sergeant J. Lind Leading a Section of South African Dispatch Riders on Active Service - Mr Lind is a Well Known Racing Motor Cyclist '

' Bren Gun Camouflaged by South African Troops ...'

' A Wireless Van ...'

' A South African Highway - a Column of Camouflaged Armoured Cars ...'

' Pipe Major of A Scottish South African Unit ...'

' An Observation Post Well Camouflaged ... '

' Rastus the Goat and Beryl The Sprinbok - South African Regimental Mascots with Their Keeper ...'

' Field Batter GunCrew in Actio

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' Bruce Mitchell the Well Known Member of the Springboks Cricket Team Now a Private in the Army'

' Field Artillery in Action '

' South African Officers In a Tactical Discussion with Their Brigadier .....'

' Practising With Trench Mortars in Bush Country ...'

Double Page

' Wreckage from One of Two Nazi Planes Shot Down by the Steamer "Highlander" ...'

' The Flying Boat " Clare " Leaving A British Port on a Transatlantic Flight by British Overseas Airways ...' BOA or BOAC

' An Appeal to Reason by th e"Homicidal Lunatic" of Berchtesgaden - Hitlers Leaflets Being Examined with Amusement by ARP Wardens '

' A French Poster " A Tous Les Francais " from General De Gaulle ...'

' The Canadian Active Service Force, Including Many American CItizens, Reaches Britain - "Cancucks" Answering Cheers from the QUay ...'

' The Second Canadian Division MArching to their Cam ...'

Personalities of the Week

' Pilot Officer B. H. Black The International Rugby Player - Killed on Active Service ..'

' Captain J. G. P. Ingham - Commander of the Alcantara ...'

' Dr Frederick Cook Who Claimed to have Discovered the North Pole Dies in New York ...'

' Mr M. Shigemitsu Japanese Ambassador in London ...'

' Mr. S. Makihara One of the Japanese Subjects Arrested in London ...'

' The Crew of the British Overseas Airways Flying Boat Clare- Which Crossed from Foynes to Botwood in ... - Mr J. L. Burgess (Radio Officer) - Captain E. Rotheram (2nd Capt) - Captain Kelly Rogers (Commdr.) - Captain E. R. B. White (Navigator) - Mr C. E. Wilcockson (Radio Officer) ...'

' Signing of the Military Agreement Between Poland and Britain at 10 Downing Street - Mr Churchill - General Sikorski - Lord Halifax - Sir Archibald Sinclair - Sir John Anderson ' and others

' The Prince Consort of Luxemburg and His Children - the Royal Refugees Who Lunched with the president of the United States - The Prince Consort (Felix of Bourbon, Prince of Parma ) - Princess Gabrielle - Princess Alix - Princess Adelaide - Prince Charles - Princess Elisabeth (or Elizabeth ) - Prince Juan ' family of Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg

' House of Hapsburg - Ex Empress Zita of Austria-Hungary at Lunch With Her Sons and Daughter On Their Way To New York ..'

' Major General V. W. Odlum Commanding Canadian Troops - On Board Ship ...'

' The Maharaja of Mysore Dies aged 56 ...'

' Lord Beaverbrook - A New Cabinet Minister '

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Mr Churchill " We Shall Fight on the Beaches .." - On a Surprise Visit to the North East

' Winston Churchill at a Gun Emplacement on The Coast ...'

' Climbing an Emplacement to Speak to the Infantry ...'

' At A Field Gun Emplacement ...'

' Leaving a Camouflaged Tunnel Leading Down to a Cliff Top on the Coast ...'

' Mr Churchill Holding a Tommy Gun ...'

' Inspecting a Guard on Honour of the North Stafford Regiment ...'

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' On Shore Coastal Defences - A Battery OP ' Full page photograph of the men at work inside the Observation Post showing various instruments used to gauge distances and range finding on targets at sea, plus aircraft identification charts covering the walls

' Japanese Blockade Lifted Round The British and French concessions at Tientsin - Road Barrier being Removed by Japanese Soldiers '

' The Princess Royal's Visit to Navy League HQ in London - Viewing the Comforts with Lady Lloyd ...' - The Princess Mary Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood

' A Destroyers Height finder in the North Sea, Manned by Two Sailors ...'

' Chevrons on the Funnel - A Minesweepers Score Card for the Recording of Destroyed Mines ...'

' A German Propagnada Photograph Showing the Capture of Jersey - Control Tower at the Airport ...'

The Bicentenary of "Rule Britannia "

'Dr Thomas Augustine Arne Composer of teh Music ' and ' Bartolozzi's Cricature of Him Playing the Song ...'

' James Thomson To Whom the Authorship is Ascribed ' with the words to the song - six verses

' A Page of the Composers Original Score of Rule Britannia ...'

' 18c Print of Cliveden House Near Maidenhead Where Rule Britannia Was First Sung .....'

' The Amphitheatre at Cliveden House, Now The Seat of Lord Astor , Where Rule Britannia Was First Sung ...'

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The Army Chaplains Depot for Training Padres

' Canon R. S. B. Sinclair MC Lecturing with The Commandant of the College ...'

' A Group Listening To A Lecture ... Five Padres '

' The Rev. Stanley Astbury MC Commandant and Canon R. S. B. Sinclair Talking on the Tennis Court at The Chester Depot - the Only School for Padres in the Country ...'

' Padres in the Gymnasium at the Depot ...'

Full page

' Mussolini and The Armoured Train Given to Mussolinei by Hitler '

' German And Italian Troops Mounting Guard over The Two Coach Train at TheTime of the Presentation ...'

' The First Three VC.s of the War - Captain B. Warburton Lee - Posthumous - - - Flying Officer D. Garland - - - Sergeant T. Gray RAF '

' Captain H. M. Ervine Andrews VC Lancs Regt '

' Lance Corporal Harry Nicholls VC Grenadier Guards Awarded Posthumously in the Defence of the River Scheldt - Seen Here at Bayonet Practise '

' Burberry Service Weatherproofs - Fashion sketch drawn by J. Scott ' advert

' National War Bonds ' advert

Theatre

' Scene from "A Cottage To Let" at Wyndhams Theatre - Alastair Sim - Gillian Lind - C. Jervis-Walter - Leslie Banks - and a very young George Cole '

Another scene from Cottage to Let - ' Alastair Sim - George Cole - George Butler - and others

Scene from "Thunder Rock" at the Globe - Michael Redgrave - Mister Bernard Miles - Frederick Valk - Percy Parsons '

Another scene from Thunder Rock - Rosalind Atkinson - Selma Vaz Dias - Fredda Brilliant '

Three examples of Bladder Wort

' Salute To Achievement - Three Battleships in Convoy ' a full page colour advert in a series to promote The North British Rubber Co Ltd and The North British Golf Ball

' 52 The Cartway at Bridgnorth ' advert promoting Number 3 Cigarettes

' KLG Spark Plugs ' advert

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This second part of the description features items of news articles etc but have no images associated with the subject matter unless listed above. They include :-

Our Note Book by Arthur Bryant

The War With Nazi Germany: Looking Forward to the Offensive by Cyril Falls

The Phoenix of Our Century - "Modern Turkey" by John Parker MP and Charles Smith - An Appreciation by Sir John Squire

Books of the Day by Charles E. Byles include - Christian Verse Edited by Lord David Cecil - - Fifty Years Work in London by Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram - - The Pope Speaks by Charles Rankin - - The Greater English Church by Harry Batsford and Charles Fry

The World of the Theatre by Ivor Brown

The World of Science by W. P. Pycraft FZS - The Living Tombs of the Bladder Worts

September 7th

September 14th

' Metropolitan Firemen Fighting a Dockland Blaze '

' The Pool of London Vividly Illuminated Showing Shipping Standing Out in the Glow From the East End Fires ..'


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Devasted Churches

' Goering Claimed He Personally Directed the Raid in Which This London CHurch Was ruined ..'

Seven photographs of bombed churches in the London Air Raids - Full page


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' Training for the Home Guard - Riflemen Being Trained to Meet Dive Bombing Attacks ' a full page sketch "Specially Drawn by Terence T Cuneo

' An Italian Field Gun With Barrel Holed Captured in the Libyan Desert '

' A Battlefield Scene on The Libyan Frontier with Italian Equipment Totally Destroyed '

' A Royal Jewel Commemorating Englands Delivery From The Armada - Portraits of Queen Elizabeth and of Drake ' Full page colour

' ....." With All Speed " A Fine Study of Light Craft Operating in a Choppy Sea By Arthur J. Burgess ' beautiful colour print

'...." The Challenge " A Pastel of Battle Cruisers Executing a Sweep in Northern Waters by Arthur J. Burgess ' colour print

' Smoke and Steam Issueing From the Bartolomeo Colleoni Before She Sank '


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Nazi Air Savagery - The King Sees Goerings Work for Himself

'A Damaged Office Building and Shops '

' The Omibus in the First Floor Front ' of a blcok of houses or offices


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' The King on Tour of the Stricken Districts in the East End and Elephant and Castle Areas '

' The King Shaking Hands With Little Joan Miles The Daughter of the School Caretaker - While Her Mother and Siste Looked On..'

' The King Visiting Districts in East and South East London and Talking to Sufferers ' Full page

Fifteen photographs showing bomb damage in London including hospitals, flats, stables, nursing home and more - Full page


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Goerings Savagery

' A Place of Entertainment - A Cinema in London Hit by a Heavy Nazi Bomb '

' Debris From Smashed Living Quarters in East London '

' Wanton Destruction - Wooden Paving Blocks Thrown Up By A Random Bomb '

' aBroken Mains and Sewers Near Elephant and Castle '

' In the East End - Mr Churchill sees Goerings Work for Himself '

' A School - A Classroom With Desks Overturned and Burned Rafters '


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Dock Fires and Street Damage

' Tower Bridge in Silhouette Caused By the Fires from Bombs in Populous Riverside Districts on September 7 '

' Damage in a London Street Where Fires Were Started and Buildings Demolished '

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' The Fires in the Docks Started by Nazi Bombs: Londons Skyline Silhouetted Against The Blaze ' a wonderful double page sketch "Specially Drawn by Captain Bryan de Grineau "


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' A Map Showing the Bases in british Territory and Islands Leased to the USA by a Momentous Agreement ' showing- The Avalon Peninsula Newfoundland - The East Coast - Bermuda - Bahamas - Jamaica - St Lucia - Trinidad - Antigua - British Guiana

'....." The London Area " - The Zone Covered By a Circle (on the map) of Ten Miles Radius From Oxford Circus in the Usual Connotiation of This Phrase When Used To Describe Air Raids ' map of London and outlying areas


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London GHQ in the Fight Against Nazi Bomb Fires: The Control Room of the Fire Brigade and AFS

' London Regional Fire Control Room - The Slotted Pins Represent Pump Crews ...'

' Telephonists Taking Calls From Stations of the London Fire Region '

' The Control Room Switchboard At The London Regional Fire Control '

' On Duty in the Watch Room '

' Cheerful Girl Telephonists of the WAFS on the Night Shift at the Control Room '

' Girls Plotting the Fires and The Number of Engines at Work on Each, On the Regional Maps at The London Regional Fire Control Room '

' Map Showing The Whole of London and The Location of Fire Stations Used for Mobilising Fire Appliances When LArge Conflagrations are In Progress - The Control Room '

' The Underground Fire Control Room '

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The End of the " Colleoni " - The Sydney Sinks Italys Crack Cruiser

' Shows How Her Bow Was Blown Completely Off ' two photographs

' A Photograph Stated to Show the Opening Phase of the Action With The Colleoni - A Heavy Black Cloud of Smoke Hangs in the Sky '

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Rescuing Italian Sailors from the Sea - The End of the Colleoni

' Several Sailors on a Rubber Boat Others Holding on to the Spars and Floating Supports, Struggling Towards Their British Rescuers '

' Showing Seamen from the Sunk Italian Cruiser Swimming Alongside The British Destroyer Which Saved Them '

' Italian Survivors of the Adction being Helped on Board a British Destroyer and Another Being Dragged Through The Water on a Life Line '

' Safe and Sound on the Deck of the British Rescue Ship - Swarthy Italian Sailors with British Officers Being Brought into Alexandria - Practially The Entires Ships Company Was Saved '

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' Lord Horne Died Aged Sixty Nine '

' Lance Corporal Harry Nicholls VC '

' Leading Seaman J. F. Mantle VC - Posthumously Awarded '

' Professor P. S. Gerbrandy Minister of Justice in the Netherlands '

' King Carol of Rumania Who on Sept 6 Abdicated in Favour of His Son '

' General Antonescu The New Prime Minister of Rumania '

' Prince Michael of Rumania Who Has Succeeded His Father for the Second Time '

' The Members of the Canadian American Joint Defence Board - Dr Keenleyside - Mr Hickerson - Brigadier Stewart - Captain Murray RCN - Commander Sherman USN - Air Commodore Cuffe RCAF - Major Gailey - Lieut General Dembick - Mr Bigger - Mr Moffatt - Mr Mackenzie King - Mr La Guardia - Mr Ralston - Captain Hill USN '

' The US Ambassador With American Military Observers in Britain - Colonels Scanlon and Lee - Generals Strong and Emmons - Mr Kennedy - Admiral Ghormley - Captain Kirk - Commanders Stevens and Hitcock - Major Greenwell - Colonel Loucks - Colonel Hunter - Colonel Spaatz - Commander Bailey - Lieut Commander Ammon - Lt Cdr Austin - Lieut Forest - Major Conrad - Major Macdonald - Major Studler - M. Miel - Lieut Macdonald - Lieit. Campbell - Ensign Mailliard '

' The Crown Princess of Norway and Her Children Reach America ' in the Amnerican steamer " American Legion "

' The Crown Princess of Norway and Her Children '

' To Guard Americas Front Door - The Great Bay or Sound of Bermuda Where the US Is Being Granted Facilities for Naval and Air Bases '

' Hamilton Capital of the Bermuds - An Aerial View Looking Roughly NE Showing Land Locked Harrington Sound in the Distance '

Moths - ' The Tongue of Ophideres fullonica - - - The Spiny Tongued Moth Ophideres fullonica - - - The Lingual Ribbon or Rasp of the Common Whelk Buccinus radatum '

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TheStory in Paintings of Food Production Essential in War - From the Mural paintings by Julius Moessel in the Field Museum of Natural History Chicago

' Papuan Planting Taro '

' Primitive Man as a Food Gatherer '

' ANgola Women Preparing Their Crops, Africa '

' Preparations for Potato Planting in Peru '

' Threshing Grain with Flails in Europe '

' Rice Growing on a Terraced Fields in the Philippines '

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The Weeks Food Facts - A New Salad - The Blackberry Crop - How to Dry Plums - Chief Protective Foods ' advert from the Ministry of Food

' The Name of Burberry ' advert

' Swan Pens ' advert

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Also articles (no pictures unless listed above) including :
'Our Note Book by Arthuyr Bryant'

Books of the Day by Charles E. Byles'

'The War With Nazi Germany: Northern Ireland and The War by Cyril Falls'

The Unique Power That Confronts Hitler - Our British Empire by Stephen Leacock. An Appreciation by Sir John Squire'

'The World of Science - The Rasping Tongues of Fruit Eating Moths by W. P. Pycraft FZS'

' The World of the Kinema by Ivor Brown - Old Bullies and New Wars '

December 7th

'British Mechanised Forces on Their Way To The Front: A Column of Bren Gun Carriers Passing Through a Greek Town Watched by The Natives'

'A Glimpse of Elbasan, With ITs Old Mosque: Italians From Pogradets Retreated to This Town'

'The Bishop of Canea Blessing Bren Carriers and Light Tanks as They Passed Through a Town of Greece'

'First Contingent of RAF Personnel With their Full Kit at a Greek Port Just After Disembarking From a British Warship'

'The Gateway into Elbasan: It Lies Directly on the Road to Tirana, Albanias Capital and The Port of Durazzo'

'Captured Italian Airmen in a Greek Camp'

'Pogradets, A Picturesaque Township on the Shores of Lake Ochrida, Which Fell to the Greeks on Dec 1 after Fierce Fighting and Greek Bayonet Charges'

'Greek Soldiers on Their To The Front'

'The Balloon Barrage: Death Dealing Cables for AA Defence' - - - An Operator of the Balloon Barrage Scanning The Skies' - - - 'Instruction in Fabric Sewing' - - - 'Balloons Leaving The Hangar for Handling Practice. The Pigs as They Are Nicknamed'

The Balloon Barrage - 'A Balloon Being Inflated ont he Traing Ground' - - - 'Preparing to Send The Balloon Aloft' - - - A Balloon Parade Before a Practice Flight' - - - 'A Filling Station: The Balloon Operator Manipulating The Gas Bottle Cocks When Inflating The Bag' - - - 'A Lesson in Bedding Down: Instructor Demonstrates with a Scale Model'

'Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles F. A. Portal, Chief of Air Staff'..."A Striking Portrait in Pastels by Mr Kennington". Wonderful colour full page

'Portrait of a Flying VC - Flight Leiutenant R. A. B. Learoyd VC., The Hero of the Dortmund EMS Canal Raid on August 12. By Eric Kennington' Another great colour full page portrait

Nazi Tactics in the Channel - 'A German Patrol Outpost Boat, Skilfully Camouflaged' - - - 'Nazi Minesweeper Supposedly Under the Cliffs of Dover. The Berliner Ilustrirte Zeitung' - - - 'Schnellbooten, Germany Much Vaunted E Motor Torpedo Boats. Armed With automatic 1.5 inch Guns'

'A Map Demonstrating The Increased Vulnerability of the Heel of Italy AsThe Result of the Establishment of Advanced Allied Air Bases in Albania - Showing The Ports of Brindisi, Otreanto and Taranto, Bombed by The RAF Fleet Air Arm'

'The Battle of Greece: Archbishop Chrysanthos, Head of the Greek Orthodox Church, With Rear Admiral C. E. Turle and Air Commodore J. H. D'Albiac, After a Service at The Cathedral in Athens'

'General Metaxas, The Greek Prime Minister, Photographed with Major General M. S. Gambier Parry and a High Staff Officer of the Greek Army'

'Strategic RAF Bases in Greece: A Map Illustrating Principal Airports and Seaplane Bases' Full page

'A Peacetime View oon The Roafd From Santi Quaranta, The Southern Albanian Port'

'A Picture Received From Athens Showing Ammunition Being Replenished i a Greek Fighter Aircraft'

'Greek Soldiers in Action Against Italian Troops on Albanian Soil'

'The First Briton to Die For Greece: The Funeral Procession of an RAF Sergeant Killed in Action on the Epirus Front After The Outbreak of War Between Italy and Greece, Passing Along the Rue Des Philhellenes in Athens'

US Army Flying Fortresses For Britain. Two photographs of the Flying Fortress and one of a formation of six

British GOC's in Greece, Mauritians in Egypt - 'The Arrival in Egypt of the 1st Mauritius Contingent of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps: Volunteers Being INspected by Lieut General Sir Henry M. Wilson'

'The Arrival on Greek Soil of the General Officer Commanding British Troops in Greece: Air Commodor J. H. D'Albiac Being Greeted at Candia, Crete, By The British Vice Consul'

'an Historic Photograph,m Showing General Sir Archibald Wavell, Commander In Chief of the British Forces in the Middle East,Stepping Ashore During His Recent Visit by air To Crete'

African (Imperial Forces in Kenya: Training Abyssinian Troops - 'Abyssinian Warriors: A Sharp Shooting Squad Instructed by south African Officers' - - - 'A German Junker in Kenya Being Loaded with Bombs Preparatory to a Raid on Italian Territory. The South African Government Have Converted These Passenger Carrying Planes into Heavy Bombers' - - - 'Close up View of Abyssinian Soldiers on the March' Three soldiers - - - 'A South African Unit in the Arid Turkana area, on the Borders of Abyssinia' - - - 'A South African Mortar Detachmenton Guard in a Sandbagged Emplacement in the Turkana Border Area'

'Tanks in the Desert'

'An Alert in the Western Desert: Pilots Hurriedly Donning Parachutes and Helmets, Whil an Officer Chalks up Those to Take the Air'

'RAF Armoured Cars in the Middle East'

'IN The Western Desert: An Itlaian Bomb Bursting Near Indian Infantrymen takin gCover Behind Rocks' An RAF Airman Placing a Cross Made From Their Planes Wreckage Over The Grave of Five Italians Shot Down in the Desert'

Further Severe Damage Sustaine dby The Italaian Fleet in Eluding Battle off Sardinia on VNovember 27 - 'HMS Renown The Flagship of Vice Admiral Somerville, The First British Capital SHip to go into Action , Off Narvik Against Another Capital Ship, the Scharnhorst in the Present War'

'The 35000 Ton " Littorio " on Her Trials'

'The Italian Destroyer " Grecale " Carrying Four 4.7 Omcj Gims'

'The British Cruiser HMS Berwick, The Only British Unit to Sustain Damage in the Mediterranean Action of Nov . One Officer and Six Ratings Were Killed'

'A Map by Reference to Which The Mediterranean Acton of Nov 27 Between British and Italian Fleets May Be Followed Chronologically'

'The 10000 Ton Italian Cruiser " Fiume "..'

'The FDestroyer " Lanciere " , The Rome Radio Admitted That She Was Seriously Hit'

Nazi Bombers Latest Havoc - 'The Shell of the Handsome Museum at Brtistol, Wrecked by The Mass Bombin of Objectives of Non Military Value' - - - The Ruined Interior of the Great Hall of Bristol University, Bombed by The Nazis' - - - 'A Beautiful and Ancient Church of Bristol Today an Utter Ruin' - - - 'The Savoy Hotel, London, Damaged by Blast and Flying Fragments When A Nazi Bomb Recently Fell on It' - - - 'The Carlton Another Famous London Hotel Damaged in a Recent Air Raid. The Bomb Passing Through the Roof Above the Main Staircase, Fell into The Well, Wrecking the Restaurant and Palm Court Lounge' - - - Another Hospital Bombed, A Recent Sufferer by The Nazi Blitzkreig, a Wrecked Maternity Ward in a Well Known London Hospital, Showing Nurses Clearing Away Debris'

'How the Flash Light Bomb Takes a Night Photograph: After Being Dropped From the Aeroplane, The Bomb, with Its Parachute, Falls Until the Moment of Ignition - A Phot Electric Cell, Which Actuates a Control Box and Causes the Camera Shutter to Expose the Film' the flashlight bomb illuminating the ground below. Sketch

'A Photograph Taken on a Dark Night by Artificial Light Produced by a Flashlight Bomb'

'An Area Five Miles Square Photographed From the Air on a Pitch Black Night With Light from a Flashlight Bomb: A View of Rochester, New York'

'Britains Retort to The German Panzer Ironclad Division: The Dingo, Latest Type of Fast Scout Armoured Car' Double page sketch by Bryan de Grineau "Our Special Artist"

'The King Visits RAFR Bomber Crew Room, Where Last Minute Instructions Are Given to Assist Them in Finding Their Targets'

'HMS Javelin Damaged in a Channel Mouth Engagement'

'Pilot Lands Two Locked Planes: Amazing Aerial Feat by a Member of the Royal Australian Air Force' a flight between Forest Hill, near Waggta, To Corowa and Narrandera

'HM Submarine Triton, Sister Ship of the Triad: The Admiralty Announces That Triad is Overdue and Must Be Presumed Lost'

'Another Nazi Ruse Calculated To Worry Our Defences: The Swastika on The German Planes Painted Over For Night Bombing

'Revealing The Blacked Out Swastika on the Tail of a German Bomber'

'Italian Aircraft Raid The Corinth Canal: Bombs Bursting on the Canal During an air Attack By Mussolini's Bombers'

'With The Polish Army in Scotland: Men of the Polish Tank Regiment Standing by French Tanks Brought Ovefr To Britain By Them'

'Known To The RAF as Lobster Pots: A Diagrammjatic Drawing of One of the New German Rescue Buoys Anchored Ten Miles off The French Coast for Use By Nazi Crews Forced Down By RAF Action in the Channel - Rettungsboje ' Full page

' Professor N. Joprga, Former Prime Minister of Rumania, Whose Murder By The Nazi Inspired Iron Guard was Reported on Nov 29'

'Major Helmut Wieck Commander of the Richthofen Squadron, Reported Missing'

'The Late Lord Rothermere, Who Died in Bermuda on Nov 26 - Newspaper Owner, Financier and Politician died at Bermuda'

'Lieut Gen. C. J. E. Auchinleck, Appointed Commander In Chief in India'

'M. Jean Chiappe, Killed on the First Stage of his Flight Out To Beirut to Take up the Appointment of High Comissioner for Syria'

'Returning Members of the Spanish Air Mission To England - Captain Sarios - Colonel Ansaldo - Captain Llorens '

'King Michael In Bucharest with His Mother, Princess Helen, After Reascending The Throne'

'M. Molotov in Conference With Hitler '

'The Funeral of the Late Viscount Craigavon at Stormont, Co Down'

'An Armoured Car Leading The Funeral Cortege of the Late Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Seen Leaving Belmont Presbyterian Church, Belfast'

'Guinness is Good For You - Opened by Censor - Passed By Censor' Full page colour Guinness advert, number GE 986

'Johnnie Walker Whiskey' Full page colour advert

'The Apar - Tolypeutes Tricinctus, The Only Armadillo able to Roll Up Its Armou Clad Body' - - - 'An Extinct Giant of The Armadillo Tribe: The Glyptodon Clavipes' - - - 'The Peba Armadillo - Tatusia Novemcincta'

'The Queens Gift to New York in Aid of a Way chirity: A Gold Cigarette Case and Bomb Splinter sold For £1250'

'Ronson - The Lighter That Lights' advert

'The Nuffield Organization - Morris - Wolseley - MG - Riley - Morris Commercial' Full page advert

'Wrecked By a Nazi Bomb: A Corner of One of the Wards of the Great Ormond Street Hospital For Children From Which The Little Ones Were Rescued'

'Rolly Royce The Best Car in The World - 25-30 hp Wraith' Advert 'The Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Company Ltd' Advert

'The Greek Government Just Issued Drachma Gold and Silver CoinsBearing the Effigty of King George II - Shown in Facsimile Size in Their Order'

'The Salvation Army' advert

'Destined For the Mercantile Marine: Boys From The Barnardo Nautical School Undergoing Training'

'Waifs & Strays Society' advert

'Dr Barnardo's Homes' Advert

'Harris Tweed' Advert

'Lloyds Pennsylvania Motor Mower' small advert

'Keep Warmer on Bovril - Model in Mink 400 Guineas' Full page advertNorth British Golf Balls - The North British Rubber Company Ltd' Full page advert with black highlander terrier

'Warm Dressing Gowns - Debenham & Freebody, Wigmore Street London W1' Advert

'Watermans Ink and Pens' advert

'Dunlopillo Sleeping Bag' advert


Also articles (no pictures unless listed above) including :
'Our Note Book by Arthuyr Bryant'

'Some English Dictators by Milton Waldman. An Appreciation by sir John Squire'

'The War With Nazi Germany: The Mediterranean Situation by Cyril Falls'

'Books of the Day by Charles E. Byles '

'Issue of New Greek Gold and Silver Coins by H. Pirie Gordon '

'Philanthropic War Services Rothy of Support'

 

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