1917 ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS WW1 Western Front MENIN Salonika RUHLEBEN POW (3904

Description: Original Antique Newspaper WW1 THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, a weekly issue Dated 1917: Battle of Menin Road SALONIKA Ruhleben Prisons POWs GENERAL VON LUDENDORFF Gen Von Hindenburg PORTUGUESE TROOPS Plus much more; see main description Antique Newspaper WW1 THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS Date 1917 WESTERN FRONT Battle of Menin Road SALONIKA Ruhleben Prisons POWs GENERAL VON LUDENDORFF Gen Von Hindenburg PORTUGUESE TROOPS Original Weekly Issue This first part of the description features a list of images i.e. photos, diagrams, drawings etc (these sometimes have descriptive articles but not always). They include: Americans in Training on the Western Front: Practising Bomb Throwing - small photo on front advertising wrap within the adverts. This page is loose from the main magazine. The Battle of Menin Road: A British Observer Entangled in a Tree During his Descent by Parachute, After Dropping from His Balloon During the Fight - full front page. The British Commander in Chief in The Battle of Menin Road - Sir Douglas Haig Visiting a French Aviation Camp - full page showing six photographs of various aspects of his visit. German Prisoners Being Marched Through the Ruins of Ypres - half page photograph. Stretcher Bearers on the Battlefield Carrying Off Wounded Men Under Fire, A German Shell Bursts Near By - half page. A Stretcher Party Carrying Wounded in Full View of German Trenches 600 Yards Away on the Battlefield. British Soldiers from a Northern County Taking Up Rations for Men in the Front Line. A British Land SHip Advancing in the Battle to Destroy German Machine Gun Positions - an early tank in action. Some of the 3243 German Prisoners Taken by British Troops in the Battle Queuing up to Be Vaccinated. A Scene on a Road on the Captured Ground After the Victorious British Advance. Placing in Position a Front Line Lamp Which Throws a Small Beam of Light For Guiding Infantry in the Dark. A Smoke Screen Between Attacked Merchantman and a U-Boat - a double page from a drawing by Charles Pears ROI. Braving the U-Boats and The Bridge of a Merchant Ship at Sea - from a drawing by Muirhead Bone. Countering the U-Boats: Standard Ships to Replace Losses - four photographs:. Busy on a Tramp Cargo Steamer in The Course of Construction - men working on the ship. Lowering a Ventilating Shaft into a New Cargo Steamer. A View of the "Tramp" Steamer Before the Launch. The Launch of a Standard "Tramp" ... Accelerated Work on Ship Building to Counter U-Boats - Double page with six photographs showing "Standard Ships": Laying Keel Plates Within Fifteen Minutes onthe Slips Being Vacated. One of the New British Standard Ships in the Water after the Launch. Working on an Engine Room - View from Above. Seamen in a Two Bunked Cabin, the Improved Quarters for Crews in Standard Ships. Men mielWorking on the Stern of a Vessel - A Ship Ready for Launching in the Background. The Captain and First Officer Putting To Sea. A Ship Yard Where Standard Cargo Steamers Are under Construction - Men Preparing a Hawse Pipe. A New Standard Ship Ready for Sea. Cutting a Port Hole for a New British Standard Ship. View Between Decks with Work in Progress. Ruhleben Internment Camp Germany - full page showing seven photographs of the gardens etc: The Ruhleben Horticultural Society's Flower Show Showing Sweet Peas. Grown From Seeds Given by Members of the RHS, London - Vegetables. A View of the Nursery Garden. Members of the Ruhleben Horticultural Society miel - five men in the garden. Another View of the Nurseries. Another Section of the Horticultural Society's Show. One of the Melon Frames with "Sutton's Ringleaders" ... Info: A POW camp, a former Vorwerk manor (agricultural area/farm), located spanning the districts of Spandau and Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf nr Berlin. The Fire at Salonika - An Aerial of The Fire Spreading Along the Sea Front with the English Quay in the Foreground - plus a view of the fire from Kalamaria - full page. The Surrender of a German Pill Box to the British - Garrison of a Machine Gun Blockhouse Surrendering to British Soldiers - a double page "Drawn by R. Caton Woodville from Material Supplied by an Eye Witness". Portuguese Soldiers in England Training fo rthe Western Front - full page showing five photographs:Portuguese Troops in ONe of the The Barrack Rooms. A Battalion Falling in by the Roadside ALong a Village LAne. Soldiers in the Barrack Room Hut. A Column on a March Back To Camp After a Field Exercise. General Von Ludendorff and Field Marshal Von Hindenburgh Leaving Their Quarters - full page photograph entitled "Economy in Men and Munition". A French Army Theatre - French Officers and Men With Some Villagers Watch a Performance of the Theatre Aux Armees - full page "Drawn by Frederic de Haenen After a French Official Photograph". The Lord Roberts Memorial Workshops Appeal - full page appeal advert. United States (USA) Soldiers in a Communications Trench Whilst Training in France. Pigeons - Birds in Flight Above Their Travelling Cot. Ammunition Going Through Old German Lines on the Western Front. The Battle of the Menin Road - A Padre Giving Water to a Wounded Man. Battle of Menin Road: A Dressing Station near Zonnebeke Treating British and German Wounded. Burberrys War Time Kit - advert. Piccadilly Virginia Cigarettes - advert. Tatcho The Hair Grower - half page advert. Hurculaces The Ideal LAces for Boots or Shoes - advert. Manfield Shoes - advert. Bell's Three Nuns Tobacco - advert. Harrods Kit Bag - advert. Birds Nutritious Custard - advert. Cavanders Army Club Cigarettes - advert. Cameron Safety Self Fillers - half page pen advert for MacNiven and Cameron of the Waverley Pen Works Birmingham. Seegerol Hair Tint - advert. c.keenlyside. Turf Derby Cigarettes - advert. Wolsey Pure Wool Underwear - advert. Harrods Footwear - Service Boot and Gaiters - advert. Lea and Perrins Sauce - advert. J. C. Vickery Improved Luminous Half Hunter Wrist Watch and Band - advert. Only Mud Pies!! - appeal advert for "Sailors and Soldiers tired wives and their children". The Super Six: The Langham Steel Company - car advert. War Women at Work with the ASC. New Toilet Specialities by D and W. Gibbs - Soap and Shaving Cream. Urodonal and Globeol - advert. Little Girls Coat - fashion advert for Marshall and Snelgrove of 352-54 Oxford St. Freeman, hardy and Willis Shoes - The Burlington and The Miranda - shoe advert. The Wilkinson Sword Steel Razor - advert for cut throat or straight razor. Fox's Frames Umbrellas - small advert. Chess Problem. The Claxton Ear Cap - small advert for a helmet type cap for children to counteract "outstanding ears". Vitafer Tonic - advert. Mazda Electric Lamps - small advert for light bulb. Colleen Soap - full page advert with red outlining; Illustration drawn by G. Halsey ~~~~~~~~~~ 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: The Battle of Menin Road - various caption articles. Note Book page by G. K. Chesterton. Building of "Standard Ships" to replace those sunk by U-Boats etc. Science Page - Substitutes for Sugar by F. L. Ruhleben Camp Horticultural Society - caption article. Ladies Page - with reference to. The Playhouses. New Novel Reviews rieve. Loght. Motoring Column inlcudes The Use of Coal Gas etc - by W. W. 2909. CONDITION/DIMENSIONS This is an original but USED vintage newspaper not a scan and not a later re-print. If there is a particular date you require in regards to this item eg. For a Birthday or anniversary etc please ask. The Illustrated London News was a magazine founded by Herbert Ingram with the first edition of the Illustrated London News appearing on 14 May 1842. Eighteen pages (36sides). It measures approx 365 x 260 mm (14.25 x 10.25ins). There is a little age yellowing. The front advertising wrap is detached down the spine and loose from the main pages (I have popped it inside the main pages). The inside pages are in a good clean condition with a few handling marks, blemishes due to their great age - anything more than minor will be mentioned in the main body of the description. The staples are rusty leaving witness marks. The images vary in size. There are no colour images unless otherwise stated. PLEASE NOTE: I cannot guarantee that the issue is complete 'as published' - but what I have described above IS present. As far as I can tell there are no pages missing, but if you are looking for something in particular in this issue PLEASE ASK. The process of the page numbering in The Illustrated London News carry on from the previous weeks issue and therefore do not start at number 1. The above description details the content in my words and not necessarily what is written on the original page."Info." in the description is my research, although relevant to the accompanying image or article, is not necessarily in the text. This item will be packaged in a tube and sent RM small parcels. - © (copyright) -All text descriptions etc. in my listings are protected through copyright law, and have been electronically and invisibly coded, and are also protected under ebay VeRO rules. Reproduction, in whole or part, without permission is a transgression of copyright.

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