Source: File: The Admiralty Pier and Harbour, Dover.jpeg Postcards such as
these were banned by 1915 [online] see an original image at at: <http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/Dover.html>
[11 October 2015].
By Order of War
Office, was published
Instruction on
Saturday 9 October 1915 -
Given in an
overlong sentence, reasons
For limitations
of particular postcards.
All areas that were
connected in sales,
Distribution and
in producing certain
Images - a common
method of contact
More than
holidays - came under laws.
Those cards whose
images depicted
Scenes, close to
towns and populations
Might include
dock shipyards, harbours,
Munitions,
defence works or landmarks.
Included were monuments
or prominent
Buildings - such
photos outlawed, in that
They might be of
use to the enemy;
Providing guides
to German aircraft.
Anyone in possession
of detailed images
Would be subjected
to Defence of Realm,
Regulation 18 - without lawful reason
Or authority,
sales would be forbidden.
This new issued
law allowed any such card
To be stopped - without providing notice
To any sender - nor might any type of film -
Plate, or print -
be sent to foreign countries.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1915. Prohibited
Postcards - War Office Warning. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 11 October. P.8.
Col.7. Available at:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11914698/Daily-Telegraph-October-11-1915.html
[Accessed: 11 October 2015].
Mann, J., 2015. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal
communication, 11 October 2015).
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