Angela Brazil’s A Patriotic Schoolgirl (1918) (HT Great War Fiction)
“The class of 1917 will overcome!” A postcard I found while antiquing with lostsplendor. A follower was kind enough to help me translate the (rather saucy) text on the back:
“My dear Auguste,
I just received your letter from the 6th with pleasure. Thank you. It’ll be one more for the collection. In exchange I send one which is not bad either. Jean came on Sunday and we both went out because [?] his place was crowded. It was raining, we couldn’t go out but we went to the theatre Pathé and we both met two lovely ladies there. “Love, what do you do to us?!!!”. On the evening, we went to the “Cosmo” at eight, where we also met two ladies living at the Coteau (? I suppose it is a place). Jean got a girl and I a divorced woman with two daughter!!! At midnight we were still in their company in the streets! And you thought we shouldn’t be naughty, your brother and I! Jean plans to come [? to Mouchet maybe] . I got a card from Hasse (not sure of the spelling), he is at Chomouh (not sure of the spelling).
To the pleasure to read you, your sincere friend,
Claudius.”
An illustration of a futuristic battle taken from the October 21st 1916 issue of the German news weekly, ‘Die Wochenschau’ (The Weekly Review).
Translation of the caption : ‘Fighting machines of the future :battle between a gigantic trenchdestroyer and a powerful electrically driven ‘circlecruiser”. (SOURCE: Science-Fiction from the Great War )
Utterly stunning. According to wiki he served as an intelligence officer during the Great War and won the Military Cross. I think Sherlock Holmes would have approved.
Basil Rathbone in a kilt
Infanterie-Regiment Nr.182 by drakegoodman
Also, smalldog.
I can’t go past a chap with a Pickelhaub.
