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| Picture No | 10700790 |
| Date | 1914 |
| Description | The onset of World War One in England |
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Events at the beginning of the First World War in England. Clockwise from top left: the Archbishop of Canterbury's Faculty for marriage licenses (many marriages had to be hastened as soldiers left for war); Princess Lichnovsky, wife of the German Ambassador, who had to leave Britain at the start of war with Germany, out for a final stroll; the Oval cricket ground used in connection with the mobilisation of the territorials; Gen. James Grierson, Commander of the Second Corps of the BEF; a house comandeered as a hospital; Sir Robert and Lady Baden-Powell leaving the war office; Sir John French, the Inspector General, leaving the war office; Lord Haldane and Lord Kitchener outside the war office; Lord Roberts leaving the war office.
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| Source | Photographs in The Sketch, 12th August 1914, pages 166-167 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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