The French helping the Russians in Germany
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The French helping the Russians in Germany
"Zur Erinnerung an die Schlacht bei Dennewitz"
Commemorating the centenary of the Battle of Dennewitz in 1813.
Battle on horseback near a windmill
P. Wouwerman's painting entitled "Reitergefecht von der brennenden Windmühle".
"Maschinengewehrcompagnie in Feuerstellung"
German machine gunners near a windmill. German postcard postmarked 22 March 1915.
"Truppen-Uebungsplatz Döberitz - Am Mühlenburg"
The military training ground in Döberitz. German postcard postmarked 14 September 1909.
"Truppenubungsplatz Munsingen. Artillerie"
The military training ground in Münsingen. German postcard postmarked 26 July 1909. Sent by a German soldier in the 5-6N Ubungsplatz.
German soldiers atop a wind engine
"Landbrot der Wakendorfer Muhle"
A propaganda postcard seemingly produced by Wakendorfer Muhle located near Bovenau, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The poem calls for the production and consumption of German flour and bread by its people.
Cartusian Mill and Ulrepforte, Cologne
Frederick the Great and the mill owner
Frederick the Great and the mill owner of Sanssouci, 2 August 1745. Postcard postmarked 23 April 1916.
"Symbolical representation of German Munition Factory"
Postcard came from the Stephen Buckland Collection.
This postcard is used in "Mills at war", 2019, p.20.
"Gruss vom Dennewitzer Schlachtfelde"
This postcard is used in "Mills at war", 2019, p.45. German postcard postmarked 15 August 1918.
German military manoeuvres on Lüneburger Heide, Hanover. The windmill is unidentified. The photograph appeared in "The Evening News". This image is used in "Mills at war", 2019, p.37.
Part of Vincent Pargeter Collection
Unknown creator
Part of Vincent Pargeter Collection
Post mill, Beuden, Delitzsch, Germany
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Note on reverse reads, ''Deuden bei Delitzch, Prussia, Photo Rex Wailes.'' This is presumably Beuden near Delitzsch.
Windmill, Grossenstein, nr Gera, Thuringia, Germany
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
"6501 Grossenstein, Ausnahme: 1968. Near Gera, Thuringia, East Germany. Photos Riedel, 1968 and 1976".
Riedel
Pages from a loose-leaf notebook - 1926 to 1929
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Assorted brief 'aide memoire' and more detailed notes on a variety of milling matters including: notes taken from books/papers and maps (e.g. 'Dynamics of Windmills' - J.A. Griffiths, the 'English Encyclopedia', 1802, Merian's 'View of London', 1638 and 'The Miller, 1900 and 1916); lists of milling journals, articles, reports and academic papers (including electricity generation); more detailed notes and drawings on the mills listed at 'Place access points' below; a June 1926 typed packing and kit list for a trip to Suffolk and expenses incurred; mileage and logbooks for a trip in June 1928 and again for Wailes' Easter trip to Anglesey in 1929; notes taken from a visit to the Sussex Archives Collection including an account of the relocation of an entire Brighton windmill in 1797; a list of Lancashire mills in working order; and an anecdote about an interaction between a miller and the King of Prussia.
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex