"Puisieux (S-&-M) - Le Moulin de la Ramee"
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- September 1914
Postcard dated 11 June 1918.
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"Puisieux (S-&-M) - Le Moulin de la Ramee"
Postcard dated 11 June 1918.
"Le moulin situe entre Cambrin et Auchy"
Postcard dated 4 September 1915.
Depiction of the Battle of Jemappes on 6 November 1792. The mill shown was known as Farm Mill.
"Truppenubungsplatz Warthelager - Liss Muhle"
This image is undated; however it cannot be later than 1917 as this copy of the postcard bears a postmark of that date.
British airship SST2 with a windmill in background
"The Easter Volunteer Review at Dover"
Illustration on page 433 of "The Illustrated London News" depicting British troops near Guston Mill near Dover. This image is used in "Mills at war", 2019, p.38.
"The Last Meeting of the National Rifle Association at Wimbledon"
Page 80 from "The Graphic" magazine illustrating the National Rifle Association near Wimbledon Common Windmill. This image is used in "Mills at war", 2019, p.38.
The French helping the Russians in Germany
"The Duppel Windmill in Ruins"
Illustration from "The Illustrated London News", p. 464 depicting the "aspect of Duppel since the storm of war was swept over that place, leaving many traces of its fury."
"Observatoire anglais dans un moulin"
Pages from "L'Illustration" with paintings by Francois Flameng which includes a post mill in Flanders being used an an observation post by the British Army. This postcard is used in "Mills at war", 2019, p.32.
"View of Fredericksburg, Virginia"
View of Frederickburg showing Excelsior Mills located near the railway bridge after the Battle of Fredericksburg in 1862.
Destroyed during the American Civil War, the Confederates burned areas of Richmond on 2 April 1865 to prevent the Union Army from taking them. The flour mill fell victim. This photograph is used in "Mills at war", 2019, p.13.
Cutting from "The Times Magazine" showing "German troops [posing] by a windmill in Janow, Poland, in 1915".
French cavalry requisition a windmill. Painted by Andrew Carrick Gow. From a drawing in the collection of W. Cuthbert Quilter. Engraved by J.C. Armytage.
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.
"A windmill observation post somewhere in Flanders"
The front cover of "Scientific American" showing a soldier using a windmill sail as an observation post in Flanders during World War One. This postcard is used in "Mills at war", 2019, p.32.
"Bataille de l'Yser - Le vieux moulin pendant l'inondation"
Original etching of a post mill near Yser, Belgium, during Battle of the Yser when the area was flooded for defense.
Mansard, Paul, artist
Volume LIX, No. 777 of "The Sphere" illustrated magazine. Page 265 entitled "Fighting in the Windmill Country of North France and Belgium" shows several windmills that have either been destroyed or used by soldiers.
Pp. 268-9 depicts the Cameron Highlanders capturing a German force near Langemarck, with a smock mill in the background.
13 issues of "Le Miroir" (Nos 43, 69, 71, 102, 111, 141, 146, 169, 190, 207, 219, 240, 249) a French illustrated weekly magazine originally a supplement to "Le Petit Parisien", and from 1912 an independent periodical. Beginning 8 August 1914, the magazine reported on the First World War.
These issues contain photographs of wind and water mills either destroyed by warfare or under military use.