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Adelaide, Hussey & Gillingham Limited, Printers (for The College), 1918. 'First Speech Day. HRA' is written in pencil at the head of the front cover; we presume this is a later inscription by the H.R. Adamson who was awarded third prize in Junior A at the Preparatory School that year..... More
Images include a row of rough graves; heavily damaged buildings; numerous Army camp scenes, including interiors of tents and huts (one captioned 'Church Army Hut Etaples ? 1918/19'), and a priest celebrating mass; a large mural of 41 General Hospital; Greek soldiers; routine peasant life, including laden camels, Muslim women..... More
Supporting documentation includes a lengthy extract from 'Flying Fury' (1918) by James Thomas Byford McCudden, VC, DSO and bar, MC and bar, MM and Croix de Guerre (1895-1918), describing his attack on an LVG C.VI, a two-seater German reconnaissance and artillery-spotting aircraft, on 17 October 1917 over Vlamertinghe ... the..... More
The photographs are numbered and captioned in the space between the two images; this collection comprises an unbroken run of 100 from '2597. Sentinelles avancées derrière un talus' to '2696. Pêche à la ligne'. There are numerous scenes depicting the misery of life in the trenches (especially when flooded); other..... More
Ballarat, [The Author, circa 1920s] (printed by S.L. Vale). The photographer, 319 Private William Edwin Leslie Clapham, was at Gallipoli at the time of the landings, in which he almost certainly took part. Evacuated to Malta with a gunshot wound to his hand on 14 May 1915, he served there..... More
Two of the portraits are dated (France, July 1917 and [London], October 1918); one of the others is credited to an English photographer; the fourth one was almost certainly taken while Dixon was on active service. They give a graphic portrayal of the impact the war has had on him..... More