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‘The Songs our Soldiers Sing’: Marching songs in the war

August 11, 2014

Katie Miles

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An iconic feature of war for centuries, soldiers’ songs are a ‘go-to’ for boosting morale and raising the spirits of the men as they march to war. In this image printed in The Sphere in October 1914, the soldiers are depicted singing merrily along to ‘It’s a long, long way to Tipperary’ as they march […]
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Royal Cousins – Wilhelm and George

August 11, 2014

Patrick Wingrove

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One of the most interesting facts about the First World War is that the leaders of three major participating nations (Kaiser Wilhelm II, King George V and Tsar Nicholas II) were in fact first cousins.
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The first winners of the Victoria Cross

August 8, 2014

Hannah Scally

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The first few people to receive the Victoria Cross were featured in the Illustrated London News in November, 1914. The very first awarded was also one of the first to lose his life. Lt. Maurice Dease, from Westmeath, Ireland, died at the Battle of Mons on 23 September 1914, the first day of British fighting. […]
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David Lloyd George’s suffragette chauffeur

August 7, 2014

Hannah Scally

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A curious one from the archives today: pictured here is Charlotte Marsh in The Tatler, January 1916, who was David Lloyd George’s unorthodox choice for a new chauffeur. Although he would end 1916 as Prime Minister, Lloyd George was still Minister for Munitions when Marsh joined his staff. He had spent the previous year implementing […]
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The WW1 flamethrower: a new weapon of war

August 7, 2014

Patrick Wingrove

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Europe’s technological development completely transformed the battlefield during the First World War. Newly developed rifles could hit their target from almost a mile away. Machine guns, on a fixed trajectory, could sweep an area with 400 rounds per minute and artillery units could bombard an opposing army from considerable distances. To protect themselves the armies […]
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Tower of London ceremony brings Oakley’s images to life after 100 years

August 6, 2014

Hannah Scally

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At the Tower of London’s poppy installation on Tuesday evening, a twilight ceremony commemorated British and colonial deaths in the First World War. The ceremony took place in the Tower moat, which was filled with 120,000 ceramic poppies, each representing a war fatality. Shortly before nine, a crowd gathered to hear 180 names read aloud […]
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Nothing to report

August 4, 2014

Hannah Scally

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For families anxiously awaiting news, the first message British troops sent home from the war must have been particularly strange to open. Pictured here is the postcard sent by members of the British Expeditionary Force in August 1914, as reproduced in The Illustrated London News. It’s well known that the British Army was extremely concerned […]
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ILN Archives in the Tower of London Centenary Event

August 1, 2014

Hannah Scally

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Illustrated London News is delighted to be contributing images to the spectacular Tower of London centenary event on Tuesday 5 August. Since 26 July, artist Paul Cummins and stage designer Tom Piper have installed nearly 900,000 ceramic poppies in the Tower’s moat – each representing a British and Colonial fatality from the war. At the […]
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The machine gun

July 17, 2014

Patrick Wingrove

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As most of us know, machine-guns inflicted appalling casualties during the First World War. Thousands of men, charging towards the enemy line, were mown down by the rapid fire of these devastating weapons.
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Battle buses: The Chariots of Mars

July 17, 2014

Patrick Wingrove

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I imagine that most Londoners would sympathise with me when I say I have a love-hate relationship with Transport for London.
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