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Ephemera: Winnie Mary Knight’s Autograph Book: A Glimpse of Bromley in the First World War
Jul 1, 2024 · 16 min read · VAD Red Cross KENT COUNTY TERRITORIAL ASSOCIATION The 7th London Regiment Honourable Artillery Company Welsh Guards Auxiliary Hospitals Ontario Military Hospital ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY COUNTY OF LONDON TERRITORIALS ARMY SERVICE CORPS QUEENS OWN (ROYAL WEST KENT REGIMENT) WEST KENT YEOMANRY LONDON AIR DEFENCES SCOUTS BBC IVOR NOVELLO AYLESBURY ROAD SCHOOL MOSS BROS ADVERTS SCRAPBOOKING ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART LAMBETH SCHOOL OF ART BROMLEY BOROUGH LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY Royal Scots Fusiliers Sunday School Shortlands Bromley Parish Church BROMLEY KENT LONDON LONDON REGIMENT HOME FRONT AUTOGRAPH BOOK ·For the fifth entry in this series, while this autograph book is a modest affair, with just 26 entries, it is one of the more interesting and insightful, books I have come across and was beneficial during my Master's research. The book belonged to a Winifred Mary Knight (1899-1981), a 1914 Christmas present from her …
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Soldier-Cartoonist: Sapper Charles Albert Kennett, Royal Engineers
Jun 27, 2024 · 10 min read · Royal Engineers Sapper Labour Battalion Queens Own (Royal West Kent) Regiment 706th Labour Corps 2nd Army 4th Army IX Corps Charlton Dover Kent The Out-of-Work-Donation Postcard Dole George William Macey Imperial War Museum Blighty Postcard Series SOLDIER CARTOONS BLIGHTY A BUDGET HUMOUR FROM HOME ·Sapper Charles Albert Barlow Kennett, Royal Engineers 7th Labour Company (later 706th Labour Company) Service Number: 59312 Born: 7 March 1898, Crewe, Cheshire. Died: 16 May 1979, Waterloo, Liverpool (aged 81) Figure 1. Charles "Chas" Albert Kennett, picture courtesy of Craig Williams, reproduced here with permission …
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An Overview of British Propaganda Efforts in the First World War
Apr 18, 2024 · 49 min read · Propaganda Parliamentary Recruiting Committee National War Aims Committee Ministry of Information Wellington House The Bryce Report Atrocity Propaganda Propaganda Techniques Government and Media Relationships Press Bureau Mi7 Northcliffe DORA Censorship Propaganda Bureau Charles Masterman Lloyd George Lusitania Atrocity Propaganda Raemaekers NWAC John Buchan MOI Crewe House War Weariness Beaverbrook Daily Mail MI7A PATRIOTISMN PUBLIC POLICY RUSH TO THE COLOURS ·This was originally one of my essays written as part of my master's degree at the University of Wolverhampton, and I am posting it here for two reasons: First, the subject of propaganda during the First World War has arisen in previous articles on this site, and I have several future articles in the pipeline that will …
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Soldier-Cartoonist: Private Louis Ollier, 8th Cheshire Regiment
Private Louis William Ollier, 8th (Service) Battalion Cheshire Regiment (later 12th Combined Depot) Service Number: 59312 Born: 7 March 1898, Crewe, Cheshire. Died: 16 May 1979, Waterloo, Liverpool (aged 81) Ollier was born in 1898 in Crewe, Cheshire, the son of Richard Ollier, a Railway Clerk, and Nellie.1 He attended …
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Ephemera: An Autograph Book Belonging to an Unknown Arthur, and Postcard Propaganda
Nov 13, 2023 · 14 min read · Henry Newbolt Propaganda Postcard Propaganda Raphael Tuck and Sons Trench Journals The Pow-Wow War Propaganda Bureau Vigil England What Thou Wert Valentine & Sons Autograph Book Edwardian Profanity Patriotism Jingoism Monthly Review Julian Corbett John Fisher Newbolt Report ·I mentioned in the last entry in this series that I had been experimenting with a photography set-up. I chose this book from my collection next, which is considerably larger than a typical autograph book, to see if the set-up would still work. The result was so-so, with a bit of rejigging needed. I have been unable to …
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The Wipers Times Exposé: The Actor, Avesnes, and the Forgotten Evening Edition of the Wipers Times
Oct 15, 2023 · 22 min read · Sherwood Foresters Avesnes-Lez-Aubert Sommerset Light Infantry The Wipers Times Trench Journals The Wipers Times The Better Times The Avesnes Advertiser Wipers Staff Cassell's Magazine J.O. Twiss Fred Roberts Josiah Oliver Twiss Barrow-in-Furness London Theatre Bandmann Circuit Bandmann Comedy Company Violet Blyth Pratt Heritage Play Jessie Belmore Belmore Theatre Family Eugenics Education Society Worm's Eye View Winston Churchill Alfred Balfour Actor Galatic Central 1918 Shell Scandal Lost Generation ·In my last piece, about the Printer and the Presses , I mentioned that I had come across a signpost in the second to last issue of the Wipers,now named the Better Times, in relation to the printing of the final two issues. This was the signpost: Our new paper is born in very different circumstances to the old Wipers …
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Soldier-cartoonist: Private Alfred Edmeades Bestall, Army Service Corps
Sep 25, 2023 · 6 min read · Blighty A Budget Humour from Home Soldier Cartoons Army Service Corps Alfred Bestall Western Front Wales Mandalay Punch Tatler Daily Express Grove Park Rupert the Bear Sphere London Opinion Passing Show 35th Division Bantam Flanders B-Type Bus Mechanical Transport Learners ·Private Alfred Edmeades Bestall, Army Service Corps Service Number: DM2/112832 Born: 14 December 1892, Mandalay, Burma Died: 15 January 1986, Porthmadog, Wales (Aged 93) I am the type of person, who when visiting an art gallery, bowls past the information desk, brushes off the tour guide, and boots the audio-headset …
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The Wipers Times Exposé: The Printer and the Presses
Sep 2, 2023 · 12 min read · The Wipers Times Wipers Staff Wipers Printers Sherwood Foresters Sergeant George Turner Sergeants Dinner Lieutenant Colonel Morgan Dr Alfred Caenepeel Flanders Museum Last Post Ypres Railway Wood Hooge John Ivelaw-Chapman Riddle of Wipers Turner & Caepeneel map Sint-Jacobsstraat Ypres Ramparts Dickebusch Dr Katheryn White ·In my post on the Wipers Times Staff, Suspects, and Witnesses, I mentioned that there was ambiguity around who the printer on the paper was. One of the names associated with the role was that of Sergeant Leslie Tyler — found in a letter he sent in 1916 to his local paper. However, research has uncovered that these were …
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Ephemera: Doris Edith May Orridge’s Autograph Book, Essex School Chums, and a Christmas Football Game at the Front (no, not that one)
Aug 20, 2023 · 13 min read · Autograph Book Essex Leigh-on-Sea School-chums 1912 1914 Cartoons Arthur Morland Thomas Oswell Bury Royal Welch Fusiliers 3rd Brigade 1st Division Wrexham Ernest Ronald Shuttleworth Doris Edith May Orridge Royal Warwickshire Regiment 143rd Brigade 4th Division 48th Division Sheffield Somme First day of the Somme George Meborn Hubbard Football at the Front Sergeants Dinner Bayencourt Western Front London Regiment Givenchy Neuve Chappelle ·For the third entry in the series, a very battered, missing its front cover — as well perhaps half of its original contents — autograph book which once belonged to a Doris Edith May Orridge (1896 -1988), who attended St Margaret School, a mixed aged and sex, boarding school in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. She attended with her …
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Blighty Mystery File No.1
This is the first 'Mystery File' relating to the soldier-cartoonists who had their contributions published in Blighty but, at this moment in time, the trail has gone cold as I have been unable to find any further information about them — though I am not ready to give up. First, getting published in Blighty brought more …
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