part 25 - Driessen archive - other interesting photo's, postcards and other items
source: Driessen archive - digital
archivist: Andreas Driessen op ten Bulten
cannot show the archive images, however photo's of them are available, for a small fee [$/euro 2.50 each, payment via paypal]
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► 25) Other interesting photo's, postcards and other items [WWI]:
►► Events WW1
►►► 1) trench with French soldiers on a hill, at the background a village - photo. [25-00211a/b]
►►► 2) captured balloon Zeppelin close to forest and airfield - photo. [25-00223a/b]
►►► 3) French observation balloon descending on land - April 1915 - photo postcard. [25-00224a/b]
►►► 4) stereograph nr. 37 "The most terrifying of all bombardments; the merciless gas-shells". [25-00213]
►►► 5) stereograph nr. 40 "Gas Alarm! Ready with respirators to repel a Hun attack under cover of the deadly cloud at Loos". [25-00214]
►►► 6) stereograph nr. 61 "Hundreds of guns captured by the Australians and Canadians at Couralette in battle of the Somme". [25-00201]
►►► 7) stereograph nr. 89 "North Country troops bomb Hun machine-gunners out of their lairs in Polygon Wood. September 1917". [25-00216]
►►► 8) stereograph nr. 97 "Through gas and smoke, our troops advance to the final assault of Passchendaele Ridge". [25-00215]
►►► 9) stereograph nr. 98 "Tenderly carrying a blighty case to an aid post through the mase of trenches at Passchendaele". [25-00218]
►►► 10) stereograph nr. 130 "All that is left of the village of La Bassee, scene of many historic battles". [25-00212]
►►► 11) stereograph nr. 150 "Prisoners coming in after the repulse at Hangard and Villes-Bretonneux in the Kaiser's battle. [25-00202]
►►► 12) stereograph nr. 179 "The battered sugar refinery at La Transloy taken by the Australians at the point of the bayonet". [25-00205]
►►► 13) stereograph nr. 252 "After the storm and stress of battle, caring for the wounded". [25-00220]
►►► 14) stereograph nr. 253 "Arrival of wounded at a base Hospital". [25-00221]
►►► 15) stereograph nr. 304 "Recaptured by Australians in a night attack 24 April 1918 the ruined obaron Villers-Bretonneux. [25-00203]
►►► 16) stereograph nr. 378 "The Australian obelisk buit over an German dug-out in Polygon Wood at Ypres sahent". [25-00204]
►►► 17) stereograph nr. 477 "Although wounded himself, an Officer assists in removing some of the wounded men". [25-00219]
►►► 18) stereograph V18835 "Camouflaged trenches in Chemin des Dames sector". [25-00217a/b]
►►► 19) Australians parading for the trenches - showing the men who on sunday 23 July 1916 after midnight took Pozières [Somme Fr] after
a splendid dashing advance through shrapnel, shell and machine-gun fire - war postcard series X nr. 80. [25-00206a/b]
►►► 20) Canadian official series photo postcard nr. 3 depicting "victorious but tired" carrying off wounded on track. [25-00207a/b]
►►► 21) Canadian official series photo postcard nr. 8 depicting "patching up the pipped" in the trench. [25-00208a/b]
►►► 22) Canadian official series photo postcard nr. 12 depicting "a case for blighty" loading wounded in train. [25-00209a/b]
►►► 23) Canadian official series photo postcard no nr. depicting "the start for blighty" red cross train leaving. [25-00210a/b]
►►► 24) view of son of "Bertha" train canon [28cm = 11 inch called "Bruno"] captured by the British 4th army by the battle of Mons? - photo
postcard dated 16 September 1918. [25-00222a/b]
►► Airplanes WW1
►►► 1) booklet May 1917 with shadow images for groundforces to identify German airplanes. [25-00108-01/41]
►►► 2) booklet May 1918 shadow images for groundforces to identify Allies and German airplanes. [25-00109-01/67]
►►► 3) Airco DH.4 two-seat biplane British bomber - close up photo of machine gun placement - made April 1917 by photo department of
the Royal Flying Corps machine gun school. [25-00120a/b]
►►► 4) Albatros C. VII biplane German reconnaissance aircraft with nr. C. 2197/10 - photo about 1917. [25-00105]
►►► 5) Albatros C. VII biplane German reconnaissance aircraft with nr. C. VII. 3540 - certified photo about 1918 - whereby original is at
Imperial War Museum showing negative no. [25-00106a/b]
►►► 6) Albatros C. III biplane German reconnaissance aircraft with nr. C. 4542 crashed at Damvillers near Verdun - photo. [25-00117a/b]
►►► 7) Avro type 504J model biplane British reconnaissance and trainer aircraft with nr. B 3168 - 3 photo's. [25-00102a/d]
►►► 8) Avro biplane [nr. 291?] "one of the most successful type of aircraft now operating with the British expeditionary forces" - John Drew (prin-
ters) Ltd., Aldershot & Farnborough - photo postcard postmarked Aldershot January 1918. [25-00119a/b]
►►► 9) Blériot XI monoplane French military with nr. 362 - photo about 1917. [25-00101a/b]
►►► 10) Sopwith Camel Bristol F2B biplane British fighter aircraft with nr. C'309 crashed - 2 small photo's 7.5x5.5cm. [25-00118a/b]
►►► 11) Sopwith Camel Bristol F2B biplane British fighter aircraft with nr. C-1630 - copyright photo - whereby original is at Imperial War Museum
showing negative no. [25-00114a/b]
►►► 12) Bristol Scout biplane British reconnaissance and fighter aircraft with nr. 8970 crashed - photo. [25-00103a/b]
►►► 13) D.F.W. type C.V biplane German fighter aircraft with nr. .../16 - Zanke postcard nr. 1042. [25-00112a/b]
►►► 14) Dorand AR.1 biplane French observation aircraft with nr. 1190 plus on side triangle with 11 - print about 1917. [25-00107]
►►► 15) Handley Page biplane British bomber aircraft captured 1917 by the Germans at Chalandry neer Lyon [F] with nr. 1463 [possible lost his
way and running out of fuel] - photos 1917.[25-00124a/d]
►►► 16) Maurice Farman shorthorn type S-11 biplane French scout aircraft with nr. M.F 675 apparently forced down and captured by the
Germans at Biache-Saint-Vaast [northern France] - photo. [25-00116a/b]
►►► 17) Morane Saulnier monoplane French scout aircraft with nr. M.S 222C1 - photo. [25-00111a/b]
►►► 18) Morane Saulnier monoplane German scout aircraft with nr. M.S 83 275 - postmarked Grossenhain 28 May 1918 - written by the pilot
Fritz Seidel - Zanke photo postcard nr. 279. [25-00113a/b]
►►► 19) Nieuport 12 biplane French reconnaissance aircraft with nr. 417 - photo 1916. [25-00121]
►►► 20) Nieuport 17 biplane French fighter aircraft with nr. N1799 - photo 1916. [25-00122]
►►► 21) Nieuport 24 biplane French fighter aircraft with nr. N3760 - photo 1917. [25-00123]
►►► 22) Royal Aircraft Factory F.E. 8 biplane British fighter aircraft with nr. 6 7624 - photo card about 1916. [25-00104a/b]
►►► 23) SEA IV C2 biplane French fighter aircraft nr. 48 [of those planes only 115 were build] - part photo card about 1918. [25-00110a/b]
►►► 24) SPAD type XIII monoplane French fighter aircraft nr. 4767 [of those planes 8400 were build] - photo card. [25-00115a/b]
►► Airfields/workshops/factories WW1
►►► 1) The "Gamma" & airship sheds - by May & co. Aldershot 40 - showing the left hangaer [or shed] used for airships, on the right no con-
struction yet of another hangar - the round hangar already there - postmarked Aldershot Jan. 1913 - photo postcard. [25-00510a/b]
►►► 2) Army airship "Beta II" - by Mays Aldershot 17 - showing airship on open field - postmarked Aldershot January 1913 - photo postcard.
[25-00511a/b]
►►► 3) Army airship "Gamma II" Mays Aldershot 18 - by Wm. May & co. ltd. Aldershot - ca. 1913 - photo postcard. [25-00507a/b]
►►► 4) Naval airship "The Baby" - by F. Scovell 8 - showing the left hangar on Aldershot airfield used for airships, with at the right a new han-
gar under construction - ca. 1913 - photo postcard. [25-00509a/b]
►►► 5) "Nulli Secundus" the British airmy airship - by Cale & Bolden Aldershot - showing airship with at the left building - postmarked Aldershot
April 1913 - photo postcard. [25-00513a/b]
►►► 6) "The Astra Torres airship" - by F. Scovell 89 - showing airship at side of the big airship hangar, with at the left distictinve smaller han-
gars - postmarked Aldershot July 1913 - photo postcard. [25-00512a/b]
►►► 7) British Army Aircraft workshops Farnborough nr. 9 - postmarked September 1914 - photo postcard. [25-00503a/b]
►►► 8) Farnborough, Royal Army Aircraft Factory nr. 65203 - postmarked March 1915 photo postcard. [25-00501a/b]
►►► 9) The silver Queen [airship] showing Royal Aircraft Factory & Hangars - by John Drew Ald. & Farnb. - photo postcard. [25-00506a/b]
►►► 10) Aldershot and Farnborough airfield [England] - flight of R.F.C. [= Royal Flying Corps] machines. Five Henry Farman's in the foreground.
Five B.E's - on the right Maurice Farman's at rear - view of airfield and planes [2 with nrs. 286 and 258] - publ. by John Drew nr.
41066 - postmarked May 1915 - photo postcard. [25-00502a/b]
►►► 11) The latest airship "The Parseval" - by F. Scovell 14 - showing clearly the left hangar used for airships on Aldershot airfield - postmarked
Aldershot June 1915 - photo postcard. [25-00508a/b]
►►► 12) The Astra Torres airship - our aerial defence series 39265 - pub. by John Drew Aldershot & Farnborough - postmarked July 1915 - photo
postcard. [25-00505a/c]
►►► 13) Aeroplane Sheds, Royal Flying Corps, Farnborough - photo postcard by Gale & Polden ltd. - postmarked May 1916. [25-00514a/b]
►►► 14) Feltham factory of Whitehead Aircraft ltd. 1915-1918 - showing several factory buildings with railtrack and finished airplanes, also inside
the buildings with fuselage assemblies of wings and bodies - photo's 21.5cm x 16.5cm and 16.5 x 12cm. [25-00504a/c]
►►► 15) The Army Aerial Workds, Farnboro. - photo card no. 44 by F. Scovell, Queen's Rd, Aldershot. [25-00515a/b]
►►► 16) Army Aircraft Factory, Farnborough. - photo card by W. HA. 1603. [25-00516a/b]
►► Vehicles
►►► 1) Ambulance le medecin chef [driver sitting in the car has A [= ambulance] on his sleeve and the car has a white flag with a red cross.
Outside a gate, with soldiers and a red cross orderly] - Hospice de Chalons met militaire stempels - 1914-1915 photocard. [25-00301a/b]
►►► 2) Service sanitaire Francais - ambulance automobile with tent canvas 1915 - b/w postcard. [25-00305a/b]
►►► 3) Railway car military health service - Service de sante militaire - photo on cardboard 18x12.5cm. [25-00307a/b]
►►► 4) WW1 French ambulance outside militair hospital - photo. [25-00302a/b]
►►► 5) WW1 French wagon ambulances loaded with stretchers [brancards] with posing medical staff - cabinet photo 23x17cm. [25-00308a/b]
►►► 6) Convoy of WW1 red cross trucks at unknown hospital - they have B3, B5 and so on markings on them - photocard. [25-00303a/b]
►►► 7) Convoy of WW1 red cross trucks stationary of a road - photocard postmarked May 1918 USA. [25-00304a/b]
►►► 8) Ambulance no. 3 car R.A.O.B. [= Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes = fraternal order] - G.L.E. [= Grand Lodge of England] - photocard
by J. Harwood printer Derby. [this organization supported the war by purchasing 6 ambulances and sending them to France, driven by
volunteer members to bring wounded soldiers back from the front line - this car nr. 3 was driven by W. Rose] [25-00306a/b]
►►► 9) German ambulance WW1 red cross parked outside "lazarett no. 7" - photo postcard. [25-00309a/b]
►►► 10) A. S. C. Ambulances Grove Park - Lewisham England - photo postcard - poistmakred Feltham July 1915. [25-00310a/b]
►► Hospital ships
►►► 1) "Sphinx" was a French hospital ship used WW1 including Gallipolli and WW2. Postcard by Marius Bar - Toulon. [25-00401a/b]
►►► 2) "Sphinx" Navire-hopital - Marine militaire Francaise (guerre 1914-15-16-17) by Marius Bar phot. Toulon - pano-carte marine. It also has
written on the front that there was a Spanish delegation at the bridge. Photo 28x14cm. [25-00403a/b]
►►► 3) HMHS "Aberdonian" was a British hospital ship used WW1 and WW2, scrapped in 1950. WW1 photocard. [25-00402a/b]