Images Dated 15th August 2015

WW1

WW1 - A scene of Dover at night as it's searchlights discover two German submarines at the entrance of the harbour. The English Batteries opened fire on the water from the eastern forts. The picture was reported as an imaginative enemy-picture reproduced from a well-known German paper. It is unknown whether the attack were repulsed or if the two German submarines were sunk.
1915

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Princess Alexandra with her five children

Princess Alexandra of Wales (1844 1925) (later Queen Alexandra consort) of Edward VII, photographed with her five children (left to right) Princess Victoria, who remained single. Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, the who died in 1892 of influenza in the great influenza pandemic of 188992. Prince George (later George V). Princess Maud, later Queen of Norway by marriage to King Haakon. Sitting on the floor Princess Louise, Princess Royal and Duchess of Fife.
1876

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Kitchener as war minister: one of his last public acts, 1916

Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl of Khartoum and Broome (1850-1916), going to face his critics as war minister: leaving the war office on 2nd June 1916, for his meeting with (about two hundred) Menbers of Parliament desirous of information it was not in the public interest to discuss publicly in the House of Commons. Within a few hours of the unprecedented gathering, he had left London, with his personal staff, and was on his way to take ship for Russia on board the cruiser Hampshire'. General Sir William Robertson (1860-1933) walking behind.
2nd June 1916

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