Picture No | 10956661 |
Date | 1914 |
Description | World War I spy drawing |
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What appears to be an innocent landscape drawing is in fact a plan of a harbour and its forts. The sketch has been made in accordance with a secret pictorial code known to the government in whose interest they were spying. In this code a windmill for example, would represent a lighthouse; a plantation of trees, a fort; a single farmhouse or cottage, a group of buildings; a group of houses, a town; a church, Admiralty offices or a Town Hall and double lines (ostensibly roads), railway tracks. In the image below, the innocent landscape has been decoded by the enemy for whom the drawing was made
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Source | Unattributed illustration in The Illustrated War News, 7th October 1914, page 28 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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