Archive Catalogue

"Celebration in a Camp at the Front"

MCFC-WAR-BEL-010
Item
1914 - 1918

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

"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"

MCFC-WAR-BEL-012
Item
1914 - 1918

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

"Sectuer Belge de l'Yser". This postcard is used in "Mills at war", 2019, p.43.

"Monthyon - Le Moulin a Vent situe sur le Haut Plateau de Montyon"

MCFC-WAR-FRA-161
Item
1914 - 1920

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

Postcard postmarked 16 September 1920.

"Strazeele - Ruines du Moulin"

MCFC-WAR-FRA-202
Item
1914 - 1918

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

Postcard postmarked 21 October 1919.

"La Grande Guerre 1914 - Le Canon de 75, en batterie"

MCFC-WAR-FRA-266
Item
1914

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

French soldiers and artillery outside an unidentified tower mill. This postcard is used in "Mills at war", 2019, p.37.

"Der Kaiser u. der grosse Generalstab in der Gefechtslinie"

MCFC-WAR-FRA-267
Item
1914

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

German postcard dated 28 September 1914. Sent from a German soldier. This postcard is used in "Mills at war", 2019, p.37.

Soldiers pose inside and around a destroyed post mill

MCFC-WAR-FRA-284
Item
1914 - 1918

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

The soldiers could be German. The name of the mill is illegible on the reverse.

Billhead receipt of Joseph Walker Ltd, Electric Saw Mills, Leeds

MCFC-BIL-029
Item
15 January 1914

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

Zouave soldier near a post mill in the Diksmuide area

MCFC-WAR-BEL-025
Item
1915

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

"Le vieux Moulin demoli en 1915"

MCFC-WAR-FRA-055
Item
1916

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

The location of the mill was redacted by the British Army Field Post Office.

"Hebuterne (Pas-de-Calais) - Le Moulin a vent sur la route de Souastre - Fevrier 1915"

MCFC-WAR-FRA-205
Item
February 1915

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

Postcard postmarked 14 April 1915.

French soldiers posing on a sluice

MCFC-WAR-FRA-225
Item
26 June 1915

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

The reverse reads: "Moulin d'Amour 26 June 1915 [illegible]".

Russian and French soldiers pose next to a miller and his son

MCFC-WAR-FRA-262
Item
8 August 1915

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

A Russian and French soldier from WW1 pose next to the miller and his son of the unidentified French tower mill. This postcard is used in "Mills at war", 2019, p.42.

Captured sawmill in Northern France

MCFC-WAR-FRA-271
Item
1916

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

German postcard dated 24 September 1916. Sent from a German soldier in the XVII Army Corps. German soldiers pose outside a captured French sawmill in Northern France. This postcard is used in "Mills at war", 2019, p.42.

"Conlie (Sarthe) - Passage de nos Allies Russes, 5 Aout 1916"

MCFC-WAR-FRA-255
Item
5 August 1916

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

Russian soldiers pose for a group photograph at a train station, Conlie, Sarthe, Pays-de-la-Loire, with a wind engine visible in the background.

"King George Arrives at the Front"

MCFC-WAR-FRA-133
Item
8 August 1916 - 1920

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

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.

Issue 146