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THE GREAT EUROPEAN WAR: WEEK BY WEEK: THE EAST AFRICAN CAMPAIGN A New British Advance

... THE GREAT EUROPEAN WAR WHKEKBY THE EAST AFRICAN CAMPAIGN A New British Advance The new British advance into German East African territory by a force under the command of Brigadier-General Northey, announced towards the beginning of the week, was made across the northern borders of Rhodesia and Nyasaland on the front between Lakes Nyasa and Tanganyika. Imme diately preceding onensive operations ...

Published: Saturday 03 June 1916
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 813 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Maps  Photographs 

ENEMY TRENCH ARTILLERY on BOTH FRONTS

... . A Minenwerfer in the Enemy's Trenches IHl The elevation can be fixed by a turn of the fly-nut seen at the end cf the bar connecting with the semi-circular slot I ^\w{mv\m\m\m\N\m\^ A German Compressed=Air Weapon Wm\m\'Nm\VK^ f-f r r J L. 1 he bomb is thrown by the rapid forward jerk or the holder fixed to the mouth of the gun ^j\m\m\^ German Trench Gun Mounted on Special Base This is a ...

Published: Saturday 03 June 1916
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 152 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Photographs 

Charles Packer & Co

... CharlesPacker Co Charley Packer Co GOLDSMITHS SILVERSMITHS Jk MILITARY BADGE BROOCHES from £0 g 0 t0 £25 o 0 The Middlesex Regiment. The Sherwood Foresters. T6&78 REGEHT STREET. LONDON, W. ...

Published: Saturday 03 June 1916
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 30 | Page: Page 22 | Tags: Photographs 

THE ROLL OF HONOUR

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Published: Saturday 29 January 1916
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 761 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

News Notes of the Week from Far and Near

... . The Royal Sussex Regiment We here illustrate the 1/6th Cyclist Battalion of the Royal Sussex Regiment, for which recruits are still wanted. For this purpose a London recruiting office has been opened at 52, Shaftesbury Avenue, W. The work is extremely in teresting and the men are billeted in houses at Worthing, so that the whole of the training is carried out at the seaside. A Dardanelles ...

Published: Saturday 29 January 1916
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1014 | Page: Page 32 | Tags: Photographs 

Advertisements

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Published: Saturday 08 September 1917
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 750 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

MUD THE ARCH-ENEMY: Official Pictures Showing the Difficulties with which Sir Douglas Haig's Forces have to Cope

... IVfll TP* TT I T? ADfLJ 17 NT r JV/fV Official Pictures Showing the Difficulties with 1VI vJ \J 1 FTHa HalYl I which Sir Douglas Haig's Forces have to Cope. A low-lying country of flat green fields intersected by straight roads all neatly edged with poplar trees and chequered with canals, and you have Flanders before the war. To-day you have a land of swamp and mud pitted with shell holes ...

Published: Saturday 08 September 1917
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 759 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Photographs 

An ANTIDOTE to the CRATER AREA DIFFICULTY A Continuous Stream of Aeroplanes: How the Problem of the Crater Zone ..

... An ANTIDOTE to the CRATER AREA DIFFICULTY. 'a Continuous Stream of Aeroplanes How the p%mbeofstttater Zone THE NECESSITY FOR A GREAT AEROPLANE POLICY i By R. P. Hearne Additional importance has been given to the aerial arm by the decision of America ti spend over £100,000,000 in developing an aerial offensive. A good deal c misconception has arisen in connection with this action, for on the ...

THE SEAWARD FLANK OF THE ISONZO FRONT

... . __Bresiovicn_\/_alley__Vj)jRC2cn__Fh*vdnr__^^ Mefieazza Monte Hermada Adrici Works Monfalcone An Erstwhile Austrian Shipbuilding Centre Monfalcone was taken by the Italians very early In the war. It contains the Adria shipbuilding works, which before the war had acquired a considerable reputation as constructors of light cruisers. One of these, designed for Austria, was on the stocks when ...

Published: Saturday 08 September 1917
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 207 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

HOW ARMIES ARE SHOD: Types of Soldiers' Boots now being Made in England

... HOW ARMIES ARE SHOD Made in England. w^/jgaaui&BzueBcuaaBaiBuieaBninmzmBBeueaazaBBZBBzanzBBZBB&ZZZBnz&ai&tZ j/ British Infantry AnKle Boot This type of boot, known as the R 2, has been made in W/fc immense quantities since the beginning of the war, but has now been superseded by the B 5 pattern g 2 HI i A Boot under the X Rays p This X-ray photograph is of a metallic-made boot, so p called ...

Published: Saturday 08 September 1917
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 486 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SESSEL (Bourne, Ltd.)

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Published: Saturday 08 September 1917
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 116 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Photographs 

THE SPHERE & TATLER, LTD

... THE SPHERE TATLER, LTD., THE SPHERE TATLER, LTD. A MOST SUITABLE GIFT. THE SPHERE 8 TATLER Permanent Carbon Enlargements. The Proprietors have arranged to supply their readers with Permanent Carbon Enlarged Photographs, and have pleasure in announcing particulars. No extra charge is made for Portrait Groups up to four figures. The Carbon process gives absolutely permanent prints, which being ...

Published: Saturday 08 September 1917
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 370 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Photographs