EditorialLeaflet - 'How To Vote', Issued by No More Politicians Committee,1967, How To Vote card for the referendums held on Saturday 27 May 1967, issued by the NO More Politicians Committee and authorised by Senator V.C. Gair and Senator R.C. Wright. The first...
EditorialCaptured Guns from Ali Musjid parked on Shergai Height, General Appleyard, C.B. (Companion of the Bath), V.C. (Victoria Cross) and Staff in foreground, John Burke (British, active 1860s - 1870s), Khyber Pass, Afghanistan, 1878, Albumen silver print, 18...
EditorialLieut. F.A. De Pass, V.C.; 34th Poona Horse.' Frank Alexander de Pass VC (April 26, 1887 - November 25, 1914) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross. He was the first person of the Jewish faith and the first Indian Army officer to receive the V...
EditorialFamous British air fighters'. Top row: W/Cdr. Stewart Maxwell. G/Capt. L.W.B. Rees, V.C. Sq.Ldr. Mulholland. Centre: Major Hawker, V.C. Bottom row: Major "Zulu" Lloyd. Capt. Windsor. Lieut. C.B.R. MacDonald. W/Cdr. B.E. Baker. King of Air Fighters. Bio...
EditorialFour photographs : Captain Albert Ball, D.S.O, M.C., officially reported missing. Second Lieutenant G.E. Bates, V.C., killed saving his comrades. Another picture of Captain Ball, with his parents. A stretcher bearer, Private Christopher Cox, won a V.C ...
EditorialMajor Edward Corringham "Mick" Mannock VC DSO MC (24 May 1887 – 26 July 1918) was a British First World War flying ace. Mannock won the Military Cross twice, was one of the rare three-time winners of the Distinguished Service Order, and would be post...
EditorialFlight-commander (Captain) Albert Ball.' Albert Ball VC, DSO & Two Bars, MC (14 August 1896 – 7 May 1917) was an English fighter pilot during the First World War. At the time of his death he was, with 44 victories, the United Kingdom's leading flying...
EditorialNo. 3398 Sepy Chatta Singh, V.C; 1/9th Bhopal infantry, village Talsanda, dist. Cawnpore. Deed of valour. Our Heroes of the Great War. With illustrations. A record of the V.Cs. won by the Indian Army during the Great War, together with a list of servic...
EditorialLieut. F.A. De Pass, V.C.; 34th Poona Horse.' Frank Alexander de Pass VC (April 26, 1887 - November 25, 1914) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross. He was the first person of the Jewish faith and the first Indian Army officer to receive the V...
EditorialSepoy Khudad Khan, V.C; 129th Baluchis. Khudadad Khan, VC (20 October 1888 – 8 March 1971), was the first native-born Indian to win the Victoria Cross, during the first battle of Ypres. His citation reads: 'On 31st October, 1914, at Hollebeke, Belgi...
EditorialFamous French air fighters'. Top row: Capt.Georges Guynemer. Lieut. Charles Nungessor. Lieut. Dorme. Bottom row: Lieut. Georges Madon. Capt. Foncke. Capt. Coppens. King of Air Fighters. Biography of Major “Mick” Mannock, V.C., D.S.O., M.C. [With ...
EditorialNo. 501 Lance-Naik Lala, V.C; 41st Dogras. Village Paraob Hamirpur, Dist. Kangra. Deed of valour. Our Heroes of the Great War. With illustrations. A record of the V.Cs. won by the Indian Army during the Great War, together with a list of services of In...
EditorialThe V.C.'s atonement.' A newspaper article with the photograph of an 'unknown soldier' who died in combat. . Daily Sketch. London, Monday, August 21, 1916. Source: NATDS5.
EditorialNo. 1605. Naik (noe Jamadar) Shahmad Khan, V.C; 1/89th Punjabis, Village Takhti, Dist. Rawalpindi. Deed of valour. Our Heroes of the Great War. With illustrations. A record of the V.Cs. won by the Indian Army during the Great War, together with a list ...
EditorialLieut J.G. Smyth, V.C., 15th Sikhs. Brigadier Sir John George Smyth, 1st Baronet, VC MC PC (25 October 1893 – 26 April 1983) was a British Indian Army officer and Conservative Member of Parliament. He was a lieutenant in the 15th Ludhiana Sikhs, 3rd ...
Editorial'Back home after winning the V.C'. Lieut. N.B. Holbrook, the commander of the first British submarine to dive under the Turkish mines in the Dardanelles and reach the sea of Marmora. He is standing on the deck of H.M.S. Adamant. . Daily Sketch. London,...
Editorial2nd-Lt. A. Ball photographed after obtaining his pilot's certificate'. Ball standing in front of an obsolete Caudron G.3, widely used as a trainer in 1915–16. Albert Ball VC, DSO & Two Bars, MC (14 August 1896 – 7 May 1917) was an English fighter p...
EditorialMajor V.C. who charged the foe single-handed'. Major George Massy Wheeler, of the Indian army, who has been awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery at Shaiba, Mesoptamia, in performing which he unhappily lost his life'. He was Major in the 7th Hariana ...
EditorialFamous British air fighters'. Top row: G/capt. F.Sowery. Capt. Beauchamp-Proctor V.C. Colonel Barker, V.C. Centre: Major J.B. McCudden, V.C. Bottom row: W.Cdr. G.H. Bowman. Major C.M. Crowe. Major Dallas. King of Air Fighters. Biography of Major “Mi...
EditorialMajor J.B. McCudden, V.C.' James Thomas Byford McCudden VC, DSO & Bar, MC & Bar, MM (28 March 1895 – 9 July 1918). A fighter pilot of the First World War, he was recipient of the Victoria Cross. With his six British medals and one French one, McCudd...
EditorialFamous German air fighters and "Mr" Fokker. Top row: My heir Fokker. Capt. Udet. Hpt. Ritter Eduard von Scheich. Centre: Baron Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen. Bottom row: Lieut. Immelman. Capt. Oswold Boelcke. Lieut. Werner Voss. . King of Air Fighter...
EditorialNo. 1909. Naik Darwan Sing Negi, V.C; Ist battalion, 39th Royal Garhwal Rifles. Village Kafaditir Pauri, Dist. Garhwal. Deed of valour. Our Heroes of the Great War. With illustrations. A record of the V.Cs. won by the Indian Army during the Great War, ...
EditorialFamous British air fighters'. Top row: Gen. H.A. Van Ryneveld. Capt. Rhys-David Air-Vice-Marshal C. Longcroft. Cantre: Capt. Albert Ball, V.C. Bottom row: Flight.Lieut. Kinkead. Col.Keith L. Campbell. Lieut-Col Louis Strange. King of Air Fighters. Biog...
EditorialA dying doctor's last act wins the V.C. (Victoria Cross). Photographic images of : Sergeant-major Dorrell'; 'Captain Harry Sherwood Ranken, of the R.A.M.C. (the doctor of the front page feature); General FitzClarence; the tomb of General Roberts; and, ...
EditorialThe man whom white soldiers call "the black V.C; "though undecorated. Private John Williams, age 20 years, joined the British army in 1914. He has won the D.C.M; the M.M, the French military medal, the cross of St. George and the French Legion of Honou...
Editorial[Group Portrait: (L-R)Col.Yule P.W.D., Major Jones A.D.C., Mr. Walters, Captain Stanley A.D.C., Captain Baring A.D.C., Captain Roberts V.C.D.A.Q.M.G., Captain Hills V.C. A.D.C. and Sir E. Campbell Bart. Mry. Secry.], 1858?61, Albumen silver print, Imag...
EditorialCAPTAIN ARTHUR KNYVET WILSON, V.C., R.N., AT THE BATTLE OF TEB. During one of the Arab charges on the British Square Captain Wilson, R.N., sprang to the front, and, though his sword was broken, he engaged in single combat with several of the enemy. But...
EditorialGROUP FROM BARKER'S GRAND HISTORICAL PICTURE, "THE RELIEF OF LUCKNOW", COLONEL GREATHED (SECOND FROM LEFT, ON HORSEBACK), LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SIR HOPE GRANT, K.C.B. (CENTRE, ON HORSEBACK), HON. MAJOR ANSON, V.C. (RIGHT, ON HORSEBACK).