Chapter I

SOME
‘FRIGHTFUL’
WAR PICTURES

BY
W·HEATH
ROBINSON

DUCKWORTH & CO.

_First published 1915_
_Reprinted 1916_

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN
AT THE COMPLETE PRESS
WEST NORWOOD
LONDON

The full-page drawings originally appeared in “The Sketch” and in
“The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.” The author is
indebted to the proprietors of these journals for permission to
issue them in this volume.

A little Frontier Incident in Alsace, July 1914]

First Lessons in the Goose-step]

The Germans use Button Magnets]

Stiffnecking Tommies by directing Draughts on the British Trenches]

Failure of the new Tommy-scalder]

The Tatcho Bomb]

Krupp’s Great Reconnoitring Mortar]

A Morning Tub on the Imperial Campaigning Car]

Some Notes in a German Bivouac]

A CAVALRY OFFICER HAVING A WARM BATH.

BROTHER GENERALS HAVING A QUIET CUP OF TEA AT THE FRONT.

A NEW MORTAR FOR SENDING LUNCHEON BASKETS UP TO AEROPLANES.

AN ORDINARY PRIVATE SECURING A PHEASANT.

CRACKING NUTS FOR THE OFFICERS’ MESS.]

Testing Mines at Cuxhaven]

How two German Officers carried a Gun past the British Lines]

A Swiss Shepherd watching a Battle on the Frontier]

The Drilling Frame for Raw Recruits]

The Lancing Wheel for teaching young Lancers to lance]

The Trench Presser or Bosch Bayoneter]

The Outflanking Machine for Turning Movements]

A trained Dog of War drawing the Enemy’s Fire]

Picking the Pickelhaube: a little Game for the Trenches]

The German Periscoper: “Ach, Himmel! Dot most be der peautiful Ben Nevis of vich ve ’ave ’eard so mooch!”]

German Spies training a Carrier Pigeon in the Fastnesses of a London Boarding House]

An Extra Special Constable discovering a German Waiter in the Act of laying the Foundation of a Concrete Gun-bed]

Using Siphons of Laughing Gas to overcome the British before an Attack in Force]

Lachrymosing the British by Onion-whittling under Cover of Night]

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WEST NORWOOD
LONDON