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BELOW WE HAVE FOUR POSTCARDS OF MEMBERS

OF THE ROYAL NAVAL DIVISIONS THESE POSTCARDS

WOULD MOST LIKELY HAVE BEEN TAKEN AT A LOCAL PHOTOGRAPHERS & WOULD HAVE BEEN GIVEN TO WIVES/SWEETHEARTS/FAMILY'S ,WHAT THEY DO SHOW IS MEMBERS OF THE R.N.D CAME FROM ALL OVER THE U.K,

INCLUDING THE SCOTTISH ISLANDS SUCH AS THE ISLE OF LEWIS IN THE OUTER HEBRIDES

THIS PAGE IS ABOUT R.ND

EPHEMERA FROM POSTCARDS

& CAMP MAGAZINES IT ALSO CONTAINS NEWSPAPER ARTICLES AND PHOTOGRAPHS

++ A PIECE OF TRENCH-ART

JUST TO SHOW SOMETHING THEY WOULD HAVE MADE & MOST LIKELY USED

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THE ONE ON THE LEFT

WAS DONE BY F.SHARP

27 TRAFALGAR ROAD

GREENWICH .

BY SPECIAL APPOINTMENT

TO THE ADMIRALTY.

THE ONE BELOW, FROM THE MODERN STUDIO ,20 LONDON ROAD W. CROYDON

THIS ONE BELOW IS FROM H.FRANKLIN & SON. PHOTOGRAPHERS 3 HIGH STREET DEAL WHICH IS IN KENT

THE ONE BELOW DOESN'T HAVE THE PHOTOGRAPHERS NAME ON IT.

WHAT THE POST CARDS ABOVE SHOW , IS THE LARGE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTANCES THE INDIVIDUALS HAILED FROM,

THEY CAME FROM ALL OVER THE U.K INCLUDING IN SOME CASES FROM THE ISLANDS OFF SCOTLAND OF WHICH THERE ARE 790 , OF WHICH 94 ARE INHABITED , IN TOTAL

TO THE LEFT AND BELOW ,

WE HAVE THE FRONT COVER AND A COUPLE OF PAGES FROM ,

MONTHLY MAGAZINE CALLED" THE CAMP MAGAZINE"

A MONTHLY PULICATION PRICE 10 CENTS,

THIS ONE IS DATED SEPTEMBER 1915

THE NEXT 7 IMAGES ARE FROM VARIOUS NEWSPAPER AND MAGAZINE,

ARTICLES , THE FRAMED ONE BELOW LEFT IS ENTITLED " OUR JACKS IN HOLLAND",

THE ONE DIRECTLY BELOW SHOWS AN R N D UNIT FROM "EASTBOURNE IN SUSSEX,

THENT THE NEXT LOT SHOW A RND MANNED ARMOURED TRAIN THAT OPERATED,

NEAR ANTWERP, THEN THE LADS IN AND AROUND THE TRENCHES , INCLUDING THEM APPARENTLY,IN TRENCHES DEFENDING ANTWERP,

AND FINALLY A RARE POST CARD OF THEM PURPORTING THEM TO BE IN FRANCE,

JUST A FEW IMAGES OF THEM TO GIVE YOU A TASTE OF THEIR VARIOUS PLACES OF WORK AND INTERNMENT .

A MAGAZINE CALLED THE MUD HOOK

THIS EDITION WAS PUBLISHED IN SEPTEMBER 1917,

HOPE THIS GIVES YOU A TASTER OF THE THINGS THEY READ ,

AND WAS WRITTEN ABOUT THEM.........................................

SO IMAGINE MY COMPLETE SURPRISE WHEN I GOT THIS GAZETTE,

SHOWN ABOVE,A WHILE BACK AND I FOUND THIS TYPED COPY ,

TUCKED IN BTWEEN THE LAST 2 PAGES,

TITLED THE R N D ALPHABET.

AS SHOWN ON THE LEFT,

AND BELOW ,

HOW AN RND DITTY GOT THERE NO ONE TODAY KNOWS,

I MOST CERTAINLY DONT,,

BUT I SUSPECT ITS BEEN THERE FOR A VERY LONG TIME,

JUDGING BY THE FOXING MARKS ALL OVER THE PAPER,

BY THIS TIME THE R N D WAS UNDER ARMY CONTROL,

AND I DO KNOW THEY TRIED TO KNOCK ALL NAVAL TRADITTIONS,

OUT OF THEM,

WITHOUT SUCCSESS,

PERHAPS THIS WAS A CONCIOUS DIG AT AUTHOURITY,

WHO KNOWS ???

ON THE LEFT IS THE HEADER FROM A WW1 MAGAZINE ,

CALLED THE SQUAD 20 GAZETTE,

THE BACK GROUND ON THIS IS ,

SQUADRON 20 WERE A R N A S (ROYAL NAVAL AIR SERVICE)

UNIT TASKED WITH DOING DEVELOPMENT WORK ON ARMOURED CARS AND TANKS, THEY WERE AS IT SAYS BASED,

AT WEMBLEY EXPERIMENTAL GROUND LONDON,

THIS PUBLICATION WAS ONLY CIRCULATED WITHIN THE SQUADRON, PERSONNEL,

THE COLLAGE OF IMAGES ABOVE AND TO THE RIGHT,

SHOW A TRENCH ART MATCH CASE,

THE STRIKING AREA IS SHOWN ON THE RIGHT HAND IMAGE,

WHAT MAKES THIS ONE SPECIAL,

IS THAT IT WAS ORIGINALLY ENGRAVED WITH R N D 1914,

THE WORD OR WORDS IN THE CENTRE HAVE LONG SINCE BEEN POLISHED AWAY ,

AT LEAST THE UNIT AND YEAR ENGRAVINGS SURVIVE.

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