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The Illustrated London News 1915 February 27th

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February 27th - Cover Heading = O'LEARY WINNING THE V.C.

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• adverts inside front cover = A good "Maxim" (machine gun) to remember Beecham's Pills keep you up to the mark, Anturic bath salts, Watson's "Sunica" best british prism binoculars 6 x mag £6.10s, Important to Canadians "The Illustrated London News" can be forwarded to Canada 52 weeks including Christmas and Summer £1 13. 8d, Carters self propelling bath-chairs and hand tricycles, Benson & Co Cigars - Caballo extra 11/6 per box of 50, London Electrotype Agency Ltd, Marich cigarettes 7/- for a 100 post free, The best way to buy bacon 45lb side 9¼ d per lb - E. Miles and company bristol, discarded clothes bought Child & Co Birmingham, Bissell Carpet Sweeper from 10/6d, Bailey's Turnstiles -Salford,

  

• Frontispiece - 1 x photograph - "Egyptian defences which surprised the Germanised Turks : trenches on the banks of the Suez Canal

  

• Our Notebook (was not produced this week owing to the continued illness of Mr. G.K. Chesterton - articles on Parliament -The Great War by Charles Lowe and The River of Doubt (Amazon) and the list of popular books of the week ................................ The camera as a recorder: News by photography 4 x photographs 1. Late Brigadier General J.E.Gough V.C. 2. Mr Gopal Krishna Gokhale C.I.E. 3. and 4. Where a German bomb fell on the house of Sergeant Radjohn at Colchester

  

• double page = 1 x drawing by R. Caton Woodville -Capturing the position "Prractically by himself": The exploit of Micheal O'Leary. V.C. of the Irish Guards - A deed of valour which probably saved a whole British company: Sergeant O'Leary well ahead of his comrades, shoots the whole crew of a German machine-gun before advancing to attack their next Barricade beyond, in the La Bassée Brickfield

  

• double page = 7 x photographs - Guaranteeing efficiency and comfort: What the British soldier bears to the firing-line - In the haversack : Knife fork spoon and mug, grocery rations, bully beef, biscuits and meat lozenges. In pockets Gloves, purse, penknife, pencil, compass, nail scissors, roll book, tinder lighter, cigarettes, tobacco, handkerchief, pipes. In Knapsack: housewife(sewing repair kit) balaclava helmet, towel, mess tins, socks and holdall. Equipment: braces, right ammunition pouches, entrenching tool, rifle, bayonet, water bottle, straps, pull-through, left ammunition pouches On Person: Braces , belt, socks, vest, shirt, tunic, trousers, cardigan, puttees, service cap, muffler, underpants, bodybelt, boots, overcoat and identity disc

  

• 12 x photographs - "For valour": Officers and men awarded the Victoria Cross- Late Pte J.Mackenzie 2nd Battalion Scots Guards - Late Lieut. J.A.O. Brooke 2nd Battalion Gordon Highlanders - Lieut. Philip Neame Royal Engineers - Private H.H. Robson 2nd Battalion Royal Scots (Lothian Reg) - Private A. Acton 2nd Battalion Border Regiment - Lance-Corpl Micheal O'Leary 1st Battalion Irish Guards - Drummer W. Kenny 2nd Battalion Gordon Highlanders - Late Lieut F.A. de Pass 34th Prince Albert Victors Own Poona Horse - Lieut-Col E.W. Alexander 119th Battery R.F.A. - Private J. Smith 3rd Battalion Border Regiment - Late Capt. J.F. Vallentin 1st Battalion South Staffordshire Regt - Lieut A. Martin-Leake R.A.M.C............................................. A gun whose shell weighs 1000 lb: The enemy 12-inch Howitzer 3 x photographs 1. A projectile which weighs 1000 lb: A shell being wheeled to one of the Austrian 30.5 cm (12 inch) siege howitzers 2. The great siege howitzer used by Austria and Germany when seeking to reduce fortresses: preparing the huge gun for action 3. Not yet as the Austrians had hoped within striking distance of Warsaw: A 12 inch siege-howitzer from the Austrian "Woolwich" which fires a 1000 lb shell with a 1.3 cwt bursting charge
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