"The Easter Volunteer Review at Dover"

• MCFC-WAR-GBR-002
• Item
• 28 July 1888

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

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"

• MCFC-WAR-GBR-001
• Item
• 28 July 1888

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

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

• MCFC-WAR-DEU-001
• Item
• No date

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

"The Duppel Windmill in Ruins"

• MCFC-WAR-DNK-001
• Item
• 14 May 1864

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

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"

• MCFC-WAR-FRA-042
• Item
• 1917

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

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"

• MCFC-WAR-USA-002
• Item
• 1863

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

View of Frederickburg showing Excelsior Mills located near the railway bridge after the Battle of Fredericksburg in 1862.

"Requisitioned"

• MCFC-WAR-FRA-007
• Item
• No date

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

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.

"By nature I'm an artist"

• MCFC-WAR-USA-005
• Item
• 6 December 1939

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

Cutting from "The Daily Telegraph and Morning Post" dated December 6 1939. The cartoon of the windmill came from the "Boston Transcript". The cutting came from the Rex Wailes Collection.

"Pres du Moulin"

• MCFC-WAR-FRA-275
• Item
• 1914 - 1918

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

Postcard dated 31 May 1918. "Pres du gai moulin, en ce coin mysterieux, vivons toujours caches pour vivre heureux" [Near the gay mill, in this mysterious corner, let's live always hidden to live happy]. This postcard is used in &quo...

"Campagne de Hollande 1795"

• MCFC-WAR-NLD-002
• Item
• Early 20th century

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

The painting depicted is by Georges Scott a member of the Salon des Artistes Francais.The postmark cannot be read, but the date cannot be before 1910 as the painting depicted was created in 1910 nor after 1939 when the stamp used ceased circulation.

Battle on horseback near a windmill

• MCFC-WAR-DEU-003
• Item
• Late 20th century

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

P. Wouwerman's painting entitled "Reitergefecht von der brennenden Windmühle".

"Les Anglais a la Bataille des Flandres Du 4 Octobre au 12 Novembre 1914"

• MCFC-WAR-BEL-046
• Item
• 1914 - 1915

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

This postcard is used in "Mills at war", 2019, p.41. Probably a stylised depiction of a Langemark mill.

"The scotch forming their lines again under a terrible fire before their last charge"

• MCFC-WAR-BEL-045
• Item
• 1914

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

This postcard is used in "Mills at war", 2019, p.41. Probably a stylised depiction of a Langemark mill.

"Les Ecossais a Langemarck"

• MCFC-WAR-BEL-044
• Item
• 1914

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

This postcard is used in "Mills at war", 2019, p.41. Depicting the Battle of Langemark in 1917. Probably a stylised depiction of a Langemark mill.

Halt! We do not enter here like in a mill.

• MCFC-WAR-BEL-005
• Item
• 1914

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

Postcard celebrating the defense and resistance of the city of Liège to the German army in 1914 for which it was awarded the Légion d'Honneur in 1914.

"Un Canon devant la Mer"

• MCFC-WAR-BEL-004
• Item
• Before 1936

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

Postcard postmarked 1936. A poem by E Schwartz about war and death and the symbolic nature of the windmill as calm and peace.

"Le Pays"

• MCFC-WAR-FRA-080
• Item
• Early 20th century

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

Poem about a soldier coming home from war with a post mill in the background of the illustration.

"Passage de la Marne. A La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre"

• MCFC-WAR-FRA-073
• Item
• Early 20th century

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

Depiction of Napoleon's pursuit of Blucher on 2 March 1814. The area was an important site for quarrying millstones which are shown in the foreground.

"Salon de 1914"

• MCFC-WAR-FRA-072
• Item
• Before 1914

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

Painting by Jules Rouffet of a Napoleonic scene in front of an unidentified windmill.