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Lord Northcliffe (left) and the author sweeping
up leaves at Sutton Place in pre-war days. |
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Shops with German names had a bad time of it.
Appenrodt's delicatessen were scattered in the Boulevards. Aug.
2nd, 1914. |
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August, 1914. Reservists at the Gare de l'Est,
Paris. |
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A large number of aircraft were presented to
the British Government as a result of the distribution of this
Leaflet. |
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The first aeroplane I ever saw. Wilbur Wright,
the "Bird Man," flying at Pau, 1909. |
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A familiar recruiting poster. |
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The first Overseas Aeroplane at Farnborough,
May, 1915. Lady des Voeux being taken for a flight after the
naming ceremony. Captain Winfield Smith, the pilot, was killed
six months later. |
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Queen Alexandra at the Royal Aircraft Factory,
Farnborough, July 3rd, 1915, where she named four of the aeroplanes
given through the Overseas Club to the Royal Flying Corps |
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Cover of Overseas, the Empire Magazine,
which I started in December, 1915. The cover was designed by
Mr. Macdonald Gill. Overseas has to-day a circulation
of 45,000. |
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An ancestral link with America. Richard Bellingham,
who was three times (in 1641-1654-1665) Governor of Massachusetts,
from the picture at Castle Bellingham. |
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Castle Bellingham, County Louth, where the author's
grandfather lived and where his mother was born. |
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The author's grandfather. |
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Frederick and Charlotte Wrench after their marriage. |
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"Great Mo." My great-grandmother. She
rapped the bare head of her small grand-daughter, my mother,
with her ringed hand saying "Charlotte, you nasty, detestable,
little thing". |
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My father enjoyed taking snap-shots. Here are
two from Connemara thirty years ago. |
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The author as page to Lady Zetland in 1891. The
youthful courtier was very proud of his finery. |
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British and American recruiting posters |
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Two of James Montgomery Flagg war-time posters,
used by the United States Government . |
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"T.K." to his friends---to the world
Sir Frederick Truby King |
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Lord Rothermere, First Air Minister. December,
1917--April, 1918. |
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The Chief of the Ministry of Information, 1918-Lord
Beaverbrook. |
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The Fourth of July---1776-1918. |
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His Majesty the King with President Wilson, photographed
in London, December, 1918 |
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"Le Petit Vieux" and Simone. She adored
her master and was inseparable from him. |
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Mr. W. B. Johnson, "Pussyfoot". |
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To commemorate British-American naval-co-operation.
The author handing a cheque for £6,000 to Mr. Josephus
Daniels at the Navy Department, Washington, D.C., April, 1920. |
