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
BELOW IS A SELECTION OF R N D EPHEMORA ,
FROM 1914--1918 + A PIECE OF,
TRENCH ART FROM THE RND ,PLUS OTHER INTERESTING ITEMS ...........
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.
