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Postcard dated 23 August 1917. Sent by a German soldier. The location of this mill has been redacted by the German feldpost.
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Postcard dated 23 August 1917. Sent by a German soldier. The location of this mill has been redacted by the German feldpost.
"Juvigny (Marne) - Le Moulin detruit par les Allemands en septembre 1914"
Postcard dated 21 March 1917.
Destroyed during the Battle of Broodseinde on 4 October 1917.
Page 14 shows a Gotha shot down in flames near a post mill near Dunkirk.
Page 14 shows flooded plains with a derelict tower mill in the Yser valley.
This copy of the postcard bears a 1/2d stamp. The postage rate for postcards rose to 1d in 1918, so the image presumably does not date from later than that year.
Unknown publisher
French soldiers beside a post mill
"A mill transformed into a field-hospital near Antwerp"
This postcard is used in "Mills at war", 2019, p.42.
German soldiers beside a destroyed post mill
This copy of the postcard indicates that a 1/2d stamp is required. The postage rate for postcards rose to 1d in 1918, so the image presumably does not date from later than that year.
Unknown publisher
"Celebration in a Camp at the Front"
"Soldiers about to go to the trenches take part to the Holy Mass celebrated on the hillock of an old mill in Flanders."
"Celebration in a Camp at the Front"
"Sectuer Belge de l'Yser". This postcard is used in "Mills at war", 2019, p.43.
"Ostende - At the Mill - Chapel Street. Effect of a bomb the 21st March 1918"
This copy of the postcard bears a 1/2d stamp. The postage rate for postcards rose to 1d in 1918, so the image presumably does not date from later than that year. The following is printed in small font size on the rear of the postcard: 'No. 4 - "Here is the Mill with the Humming of Thunder
Unknown publisher
"Strazeele - Ruines du Moulin"
Postcard postmarked 21 October 1919.
Soldiers pose inside and around a destroyed post mill
The soldiers could be German. The name of the mill is illegible on the reverse.
This image is undated; however it cannot be later than 1919 as this copy of the postcard bears a postmark of that date.
Unknown publisher
"Maschinengewehrcompagnie in Feuerstellung"
German machine gunners near a windmill. German postcard postmarked 22 March 1915.
"Salon de la Guerre. Maurice Dubois. Ramscapelle"
Postcard came from the Stephen Buckland Collection.
"King George Arrives at the Front"
The exact location of this mill is not known. However, the King was visiting the Front at the Somme between 8-15 August 1916. He is seen here inspecting the Canadian Corps. The Imperial War Museum has film footage of this same scene (Catalogue number IWM 192) here This postcard is used in "Mills at war", 2019, p.42.
Postcard came from the Stephen Buckland Collection via Frank Gregory.