Correspondents Collection

Arrest of English correspondents at Metz during the Franco-Prussian war. 1870

WAR REPORTERS MOCKED 1880
The War Correspondent, imperturbable amidst shot and shell - if you believe his own account of his adventures ! Date: 1880

The Men who fought at Arnhem, WW2
The men who fought at Arnhem in a struggle against the odds during the Second World War. A double page spread of seven photographs, picturing Major-General Urquhart

William Beach Thomas, KBE, (22 May 1868 12 May 1957), British author and journalist known for his work as a war correspondent during World War I and for his writings about nature and country life

Mr Bennet Burleigh of the Daily Telegraph
Bennet Burleigh(c.1840-1914), war correspondent for The Daily Telegraph. Date: 1899

Rus-Jap War Reported
RUSSIA-JAPAN WAR : war correspondents of Le petit Journal and other papers, in Manchuria Date: 1904

WW1 - Journalists greeted by German shells at Reims
Journalists (chosen by the French government) are greeted by German shells at Reims! Date: 1915

Mr Scotland Liddell, Sphere correspondent on Russian Front
Portrait of Robert Scotland Liddell, special correspondent for The Sphere magazine during the First World War, pictured with a Red Cross nurse

H. Warner Allen, war correspondent, WW1
Mr. H. Warner Allen, special correspondent for The Morning Post and Daily News during the First World War. For about a year he was the sole representative of the British Press with the French forces

Sir Philip Gibbs
SIR PHILIP GIBBS (1877 - 1962). Journalist whose outspoken reporting from the front in WW1 got him into trouble : first journalist to interview the Pope. War historian

Percival Phillips (1877-1937), American born journalist and war correspondent, working for the Daily Express during the First World War

Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett writing a despatch, Dardanelles, WW1
Ellis Ashmead-Barlett (1881-1931), British war correspondent, pictured at his typewriter resting on ammunition boxes after the landing at Anafarta, writing a despatch

British war correspondents in trench, Western Front, WW1
British war correspondents in a trench, watching an aerial combat, on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Joe Coyne & Ellis Ashmead-Barlett
Front cover of The Tatler featuring Joseph (Joe) Coyne (1867-1941), American actor and singer, entertaining crowds at the Empire Theatre during World War

Mrs Patrick de Bathe - wife of war correspondent
Mrs Patrick de Bathe, formerly Miss Violet Lindsay Wood who was the wife of Mr. Patrick de Bathe, one of The Daily Telegraphs special war correspondents during the First World War

Victor Bulla, special correspondent
Victor Bulla of St. Petersburg, one of the special correspondents of The Sphere and The Tatler, who gained permission to accompany the invading Russian forces en route to Manchuria during

The Womens Press Club of London - founded in 1948. Members in the bar lounge of the club premises in Carey Street, close to Fleet Street, London

War Correspondents fly to France, 1939
British and American war correspondents prepare to fly to France in the early weeks of World War II. All wear officers uniform but without the usual distinguishing marks of rank

Special artists working for The Illustrated London News
Portraits of Melton Prior and H.C. Seppings appear in the Illustrated London News with their sketches in the background; the title reads, Our Special Artists in Africa

Melton Prior
The English artist and war correspondent for the Illustrated London News from the early 1870s until 1904. He was noted for his ability to sketch scenes quickly

Soldiers tabloid first aid pack
Medical equipment in a handy portable case made for soldiers, war correspondents, airmen and explorers. The kit contains Kola compound that supresses hunger and thirst

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