The War Illustrated
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xenithHave some pictures from "The War Illustrated" to post this week, because you are not getting enough war stuff I know. It's a magazine of pictures that was published regularly during both world wars and Wikipedia describes it quite well.
This issue is 4 Septeber 1915. The front cover has a full page image captioned "'Bravo, Lloyd George !' British Soldiers cheering the splendid work of the new shells. The back is a full page ad, I mean editorial, showing "back numbers of 'The War Illustrated' converted into handsome volumes" and an opening paragraph that goes....
I have just had a striking example of what maybe be called the personal interest of "The War Illustrated". I received a letter, in which the writer, a lady, says: "You will be interested to know that the other day my children were looking over a bounded volume of 'The War Illustrated', lent to them by a friend, when suddenly one of them said 'There's father !' I looked also, and sure enough, in a photograph of a small column of troops marching somewhere in France, was husband was to be seen as plain as could be. I am now taking in 'The War Illustrated' every week. Perhaps we may see my husband again in its pages, and anyway, it will be a splendid storehouse of war pictures for him when he returns to fight his battles over again in the peace of his own home."
"German 'Flammenwerfer' (flame-projector) in action. The diabolical invention that
caused a temporary British set-back at Hooge by spraying liquid fire over our trenches."
This issue is 4 Septeber 1915. The front cover has a full page image captioned "'Bravo, Lloyd George !' British Soldiers cheering the splendid work of the new shells. The back is a full page ad, I mean editorial, showing "back numbers of 'The War Illustrated' converted into handsome volumes" and an opening paragraph that goes....
I have just had a striking example of what maybe be called the personal interest of "The War Illustrated". I received a letter, in which the writer, a lady, says: "You will be interested to know that the other day my children were looking over a bounded volume of 'The War Illustrated', lent to them by a friend, when suddenly one of them said 'There's father !' I looked also, and sure enough, in a photograph of a small column of troops marching somewhere in France, was husband was to be seen as plain as could be. I am now taking in 'The War Illustrated' every week. Perhaps we may see my husband again in its pages, and anyway, it will be a splendid storehouse of war pictures for him when he returns to fight his battles over again in the peace of his own home."
"German 'Flammenwerfer' (flame-projector) in action. The diabolical invention that
caused a temporary British set-back at Hooge by spraying liquid fire over our trenches."
