1918 Collection (page 19)

Comic postcard, British soldier dreaming of home sweet home, WW1 Date: circa 1918

Comic postcard, two British soldiers, private and sergeant major, WW1 Date: circa 1918

Comic postcard, British soldier on sentry duty in the cold, WW1 Date: circa 1918

The latest act of Hun fiendishness during the First World War: the Glenart Castle, the seventh hospital ship sunk in breach of the German pledge

"This is a present for the wife. "I didn t know you were married
" This is a present for the wife." " I didn t know you were married!" " Oh, its not my wife." Date: 1918

The Bourse (Stock Exchange) at Alexandria, Egypt, illuminated to celebrate the anniversary of Fuad Is ascension as Sultan Of Egypt in 1917. Date: 1918

A young couple share a tender embrace
circa 1910s

Glasgow Girls
The Cowcaddens Girl. Scottish humour. Date: circa 1918

View over Dikkebus Lake, Dickebusch, Belgium
The name Dickebusch means hick forest and dates from the time that this area was dense woodland. The Germans never took the lake, although they reached the water in May 1918

Plaque to Captain J J Crowe VC, Nieuwkerke Hospice
The final German attempt to break through to the Channel ports, known as the Fourth Battle of Ypres, had initial success

The American Bridge, Vierstraat, Belgium
The bridge crosses the small stream the Kemmelbeek. In the August 1918 offensive the centre line of the attacking American 27th Division crossed over this bridge, hence its local name of American

Hopstore CWGC Cemetery, Vlamertinghe, Belgium
The village, known as Vlam to the Tommies, was a pile of rubble by 1918 but the area of the Cemetery was just outside the range of the medium guns and the hop building, in the background here

Headstone of Private Richard le Page, 26 March 1918
Le Page, who was 42 years old, was in the Royal Guernsey Light Infantry. He is buried in Vlamertinghe New Military Cemetery. The Regiment was formed at the end of 1916 from the Guernsey Militia

Menin Road South CWGC Cemetery
The cemetery was used by the 85ths Staffs, 9th East Surreys and Field Ambulances from January 1916 to 1918. It contains UK, Australian, Canadian, New Zealand

Tea party
The tea party. Silhouette. Children and their dolls having tea. Artist: Helen Grace Marsh Lambert Date: 1918

The classroom
The School. Silhouette. Girl and her dolls in class with teacher. Artist: Helen Grace Marsh Lambert Date: 1918

Girl with a camera
The photograph. Girl with a camera photographing her playmate. Silhouette. Artist: Helen Grace Marsh Lambert Date: 1918

Chattering girls
Little Gossips. Silhouette. Artist: Helen Grace Marsh Lambert Date: 1918

Children sewing
Busy Little Mothers. Silhouette of two young girls sewing. Artist: Helen Grace Marsh Lambert Date: 1918

The haloed shadow: an aerial phenomenon. Often observed when flying over clouds on a sunny day: a circular shadow resembling the allied aeroplane-mark. Date: 1918

Two garlanded Napiers carrying Welsh schoolchildren in national dress to 10 Downing Street to meet David Lloyd George and his daughter, Megan. Date: circa 1918

IAE President - Brigadier-General Ralph Kirkby Bagnall-Wild
IAE President, 1917-18, Brigadier-General Ralph Kirkby Bagnall-Wild, by Miles and Kaye. Date: 1918

Hompton-Wood Stone Firms wagon. Date: circa 1918

Rother Vale Colleries wagon. Date: circa 1918

Appleby Iron Co wagon. Date: circa 1918

Wolverhampton Corregated Iron Co wagon. Date: circa 1918

A Bodell wagon. Date: circa 1918

Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Co wagon. Date: circa 1918

FJ Newton wagon. Date: circa 1918

Nathaniel Atrill Colliery wagon. Date: circa 1918

Papworth Colony - Model Cottages
Model cottages at the Papworth Tuberculosis Colony, established in 1918 as the Cambridgeshire Tuberculosis Colony, following a campaign led by Elsbeth Dimsdale. Date: Date unknown

Papworth Colony - Hospital Ward
A hospital ward at the Papworth Tuberculosis Colony, established in 1918 as the Cambridgeshire Tuberculosis Colony, following a campaign led by Elsbeth Dimsdale. Date: Date unknown

Papworth Colony - Open Air Chalets
Open air chalets at the Papworth Tuberculosis Colony, established in 1918 as the Cambridgeshire Tuberculosis Colony, following a campaign led by Elsbeth Dimsdale. Date: Date unknown

Japanese scenes
Mother and children watching a stork hovering over a lake. Artist: Alice Cook Date: circa 1918

Advert for Milton against influenza 1918
Advertisement for Milton sterilising fluid, recommended for preventing and relieving influenza at a time when Spanish flu was rapidly spreading across the world. 1918

Advert for Treloar carpets 1918
Trevoar carpets in Ludgate Hill. Date: 1918

The theft of the La Tour Pastels from St. Quentin, Dec 1918
Article describing the theft of the pastel work of Maurice Quentin de la Tour and showing a selection of three examples of his most famous pastel work

First womens village council in Findon, Sussex, May 1918
Photograph of the first womens village council in Findon, Sussex, established in 1917. The accompanying article describes the origins of the council in the innate female concern for domestic affairs

Female royal flying corps driver 1918
Female royal flying corps driver from a painting by Harrington Mann. Date: 1918

Woman harvesting apples as old man watches 1918
Old man watches, " not altogether unmixed with disapproval", as women harvest apples in an English garden. The Sphere comments on the mixed reaction of the old man

Women working at a South London gas works 1918
Women working at the South Metropolitan Gas Works, London. The Sphere elaborates on the pioneering work of the engineer of these gas works in successfully replacing male workers with women

Irene Lawley
The Hon. Irene Constance Lawley, owner of Escrick Park mansion, which she converted into a hospital during the First World War. Date: 1918

Russian men in US Army coats, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Group photo of eleven Russian men (described as Bolsheviks) in US Army long coats, at Fort Omaha, Nebraska, USA, on 27 December 1918

The Anatomy Lesson of Professor Cupidon (Cupid). 1918

The late John Redmond
John Redmond (1856 - 1918), Irish statesman, pictured in The Graphic at the time of his death. Date: 1918

War Memorial, Pitzhanger Manor, Ealing, West London
War Memorial (detail), Pitzhanger Manor, Ealing, West London, including the name of Albert Auerbach MC (1894-1918). Date: 2015

Various Sinn Feiners arrested over an alleged German plot, Clockwise from top left: the Countess Markievicz; Mr Darrell Figgis; Joseph McGuiness M.P.; Count Plunkett M.P.; William Cosgrave; Dr

Evacuated French peasant returns home, WW1
An evacuated French peasant returns to his home after the Second Battle of the Marne, towards the end of the First World War. 1918

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