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Donnerstag, 17. Juni 2021

SOME FRIGHTFUL WAR PICTURES by W. HEATH ROBINSON

William Heath Robinson (31 May 1872 – 13 September 1944) was an English cartoonist, illustrator and artist.

 The full-page drawings originally appeared in “The Sketch” and in “The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.”



 

 
 
First published 1915, Reprinted 1916
 

I.THE TRUE REASON OF THE WAR
A little Frontier Incident in Alsace, July 1914
 


II. NACH PARIS!
First Lessons in the Goose-step
 


III. HAGUE CONVENTION DEFIED!
The Germans use Button Magnets



IV. HAGUE CONVENTION DEFIED!
Stiffnecking Tommies by Directing Draughts on the British Trenches



VI. HAGUE CONVENTION DEFIED!
Failure of the new Tommy-scalder



VII. HAGUE CONVENTION DEFIED!
The Tatcho Bomb 
 
 


VIII. KOLOSSAL!
Krupp’s Great Reconnoitring Mortar
 
 
 

IX. THE WAR LORD AT THE FRONT
A Morning Tub on the Imperial Campaigning Car
 
 
 

X. WAR KOMFORTS!
Some Notes in a German Bivouac
 
 

XI. MUNITIONS!
Testing Mines at Cuxhaven
 
 

XII. A CLEVER RUSE
How two German Officers carried a Gun past the British Lines
 
 

XIII. NEUTRAL!
A Swiss Shepherd watching a Battle on the Frontier
 
 

XIV. BRITISH PATENT (applied for)
The Drilling Frame for Raw Recruits
 
 

XV. BRITISH PATENT (applied for)
The Lancing Wheel for teaching young Lancers to lance
 
 

XVI. BRITISH PATENT (applied for)
The Trench Presser or Bosch Bayoneter
 
 

XVII. BRITISH PATENT (applied for)
The Outflanking Machine for Turning Movements
 
 

XVIII. BRITISH PATENT (applied for)
A trained Dog of War drawing the Enemy’s Fire
 
 

XIX. BRITISH PATENT (applied for)
Picking the Pickelhaube: a little Game for the Trenches
 
 

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

XXI. THE ENEMY IN OUR MIDST!
German Spies training a Carrier Pigeon in the Fastnesses of a
London Boarding House
 
 

XXII. THE ENEMY IN OUR MIDST!
An Extra Special Constable discovering a German Waiter in the Act
of laying the Foundation of a Concrete Gun-bed
 
 
 

XXIII. HAGUE CONVENTION DEFIED!
Using Siphons of Laughing Gas to overcome the British before an Attack in Force
 
 
 

XXIV. HAGUE CONVENTION DEFIED!
Lachrymosing the British by Onion-whittling under Cover of Night



 
 
 

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