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The Last Man, Hans Bohrdt - Propaganda - German navy officer

In 1915 Hans Bohrdt created his most famous illustration which is called "The Last Man". The image shows a German navy officer holding up a German flag as his ship sinks because he would rather go down with the ship than surrender during the Battle for the Falkland Islands on 8th December 1914. "The Last Man" would become one of the most widely recognized propaganda images used during the First World War to inspire courage. Date: 1915

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Grace Darling, rowing with her father

Grace Horsley Darling, daughter of the lighthouse keeper, William Darling, on the Farne Islands, seen here rowing with her father to the sinking steamboat the SS Forfarshire in 1838 -- together with her father she saved 13 people from the wreck

© Mary Evans Picture Library

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Western Airways Ltd Poster

Poster, Norman Edgar Western Airways Ltd, Bristol to Cardiff Air Express, 15 minutes, 9 shillings and sixpence single fare. Connections from Bristol by air to Liverpool, Birmingham, Plymouth, Bournemouth, Brighton, Isle of Wight and Channel Islands. Air Taxis -- see your city from the air.
20th century

© The Royal Aeronautical Society (National Aerospace Library)/Mary Evans