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Postcards, photographs, and magazines depicting mills during wars.
Postcards, photographs, and magazines depicting mills during wars.
"War 1914-15-16... In the Somme The ruins of Fay Mill"
Postmarked 2 July 1919. The reverse of the postcard is of interest for philatelists. It is addressed to "Sirs Winox Ltd. Stamps for Propaganda, Mailing Office, 106 Queen Victoria Street, London. SW1". Winox Limited was an organisation that collected propaganda and commemorative stamps. This from the The Association of British Philatelic Societies Ltd. "CAMPBELL-JOHNSTON, Louis 1862-1929. Chairman of Winox Ltd. Collected Propaganda and Commemorative stamps. Issued Winox War stamps (six million) 1914, and Winox Animal Lovers' stamps, 1918. His extensive collection of poster stamps, mainly advertising exhibitions, and covering issues from about 1850 to the mid-1920s, was given to the British Museum by Mrs Florence Campbell-Johnston in 1932. It is now at the British Library." The stamps on the reverse include a pink/purple French stamp depicting Douglas Haig, and a blue stamp with Hebrew text.
The 2/2nd London Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery.
This postcard is used in "Mills at war", 2019, p.40.
Scrapbook of photographs and postcards
Part of Stephen Buckland Collection
Scrapbook of photographs of Surrey, Sussex, Suffolk and Kent mills. Postcards of foreign mills in Portugal and of mills destroyed in the First World War in France. Stephen Buckland's scrapbook number 67.
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
"Lincolnshire Mills and Millers in Wartime"
Part of Jon Sass Collection
Sass, Jon A (b. 1942), miller and millwright
German soldiers on horseback near unidentified mill
German postcard. This postcard is used in "Mills at war", 2019, p.41. The location of the mill is unknown, and it may not be real.
"Vouvray (I & L) - Ancien Moulin ayant servi a la Telegraphie"
"Ces Moulins jouerent un role les guerres de la Vendee. L'orientation de leurs ailes etait un signal pour l'armee royale qui se basait sur leurs indications" [These Mills played a role in the wars of the Vendee. The orientation of their wings was a signal for the Royal Army that was based on their indications]. This postcard is used in "Mills at war", 2019, p.34.
"Monthyon - Le Moulin a Vent situe sur le Haut Plateau de Montyon"
Postcard postmarked 16 September 1920.
"Ruins of the Mill of Fargny, near Curlu"
Two postcards are filed under this entry. One has a message from British soldier on the reverse, but the one seen as the image above is in better condition. The postcard from the soldier is dated 8 July 1917.
German soldiers beside a destroyed post mill
"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.
French soldiers beside Moulin de Fontaine les Nonnes, Douy-la-Ramée, Seine-et-Marne, France
"Zusammengeschossen Muhle in Ste Marie a Py"
Pencil drawing of a watermill at Ste-Marie-a-Py destroyed after German bombing. Drawn by someone called "Weglan".
British soldiers and Indians next to a water-raising well.
"Ruines - St Jacques Capelle. Ruines du Moulin de la Reine 1917"
"The mill at Beaucourt sur Ancre"
The ruins of Beaucourt Mill which was taken during the Battle of the Ancre in November 1916, during the Battle of the Somme.
"Ercheu (Somme) - Sucrerie saccagee"
"Vic-sur-Aisne - Le Moulin detruit en 1918 - Vue interieure"