Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook

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Left Page:

At the top of the page is a political cartoon of a tall angry sailor looking down on a small man in a suit and top hat

LORD LANSDOWNE - "Don't you think you might discount the freedom of the

[ ] with the nice kind Hen.?"

JACK - "Let the blighters come out, and we'll discuss it alright!"

On the left side is a newspaper article:

GERMAN VIEW OF LORD

KITCHENER.

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[ ] ASSOCIATION WAR SPECIALS

AMSTERDAM, WEDNESDAY.

The Cologne Gazette prints a short article

on Lord Kitchener, in which the journal

remarks that the man who is commanding the

armies against Germany deserves all the more

attention because nothing much is known

about his personality. British Generals, the

journal says, are not in the habit of enlightening

the world with all sorts of details about

themselves. Kitchener, the Cologne Gazette

continues, is taciturn even for an Englishman.

Moreover, he does not pay over-frequent

visits to the British troops in France,

but prefers to remain in Whitehall at the

War Office, whence he controls the enormous

war machine which he is hurling against us

from all the corners of the globe, and which

he has in the first place to piece together.

It is the historic experience in all British

wars that their organization is never ready at

the beginning of operations, and that the real

preparations have always to be begun after

the outbreak of [ ] . Field-Marshal

Horatio Herbert Kitchener is the embodiment

of British will-power, British toughness, and

British concentration. We do not know

whether he has accepted the task of fighting

the German nation in arms with pleasure.

He is in no way equal to the undertaking, because

he lacks the first quality of the great

General - namely, the psychological sense.

Kitchener does not possess the slightest

understanding of the souls of the people he is

fighting or controlling. He is the personification

of the soulless British Imperial machine

which wages war by means of bargains and

intrigues. It is for that very reason that his

compatriots believe in him. Personally,

Kitchener is said to have one riding passion -

the collection of old skins , and this ceramic

love is perhaps the only close bond which

connects him with humanity.

In the center right is a newspaper article:

Armstrong Pratt, dearly loved son of M missing

Pratt, killed in France, and Mr. T. Pattison

who was lost in the "Leinster." And now just

as these notes go to Press come tidings that

Lieutenant Frank Walkey, younger son of Mr.

and Mrs. C. H. Walkey, and only brother of

Lieutenant Colonel Walkey, has been killed in

France. He was not yet 23 years of age,

and was one of Dublin's best gifts to

the Army. Much sympathy is felt for all the

sorrowing circles, and also for Mr. and Mrs.

Semple, of the Rathgar Division of the same

Circuit, in the loss of their bright boy through

the prevailing epidemic.

In the lower right is a newspaper clipping of an aerial view of a town, focusing on a large ornate building:

DESTRUCTION OF RHEIMS AT LAST COMPLETED.

As it is in anger at the appalling cost of its inconclusive push on the western front,

German command has set to work to reduce Rheims and its famous cathedral to ru missing

The civil population, which numbered 120,000 in time of peace, is now altogether g missing

German kultur has added another atrocity to its list of horrors.

Right Page:

Oriented horizontally at the top of the page is a newspaper clipping of an image of people and horses trudging through what looks like a storm and high winds

The March Of The British Nurses.

The march of the Scottish nurses over the Albanian mountains during their retreat from

Serbia is a marvellous story of women's pluck and endurance.

--(Reproduced by courtesy of The Sphere.)

Below center is a newspaper clipping of an image of soldiers in battle with the caption:

On the top of the ridge, which was bought with such splendid daring and at such

great loss by the Australian troops.

Center right newspaper clipping:

JANUARY

Evocation of Gallipoff, 1916.

Man's [ ] duty is everywhere and in all

things go toward the progress of humanity.

Lower right newspaper clipping of a woman's face with the caption:

Miss Moyra Cavanagh, who

received the Military Medal from

the King for bravery and devotion

to wounded during enemy

air raid in France.