| Description | Bound volume containing issues 49-51 of The Battersea Polytechnic Magazine, produced by the Battersea Polytechnic Day Students' Representative Council. Dates and summarised contents of issues are given below:
Volume 10: No.49, Dec 1917. Photo of Lieutenant (Acting Captain) John Percival Turner, Warwickshire Regiment, (killed in action Oct 26th 1917). Articles include: Editorial; Roll of Distinction - Thirteenth List (mentions two old Secondary School boys killed in action - Lieut. F. E. Winser and Sergt. J. C. Bailes, and also two Battersea members who had gained awards - C. Pratt (Military Cross) and P.E. Heylar (Military Medal); Sergeant F. Hendrey (had been awarded a Military Medal and also held the Distinguished Conduct Medal); Military Awards; Roll of Honour - John Percival Turner (former history master at Battersea Polytechnic Secondary School), Second Lieutenant William Henry Clark (Middlesex Regiment and Royal Flying Corps), Gun-Layer Alfred George Lockyer (Royal Naval Air Service), Hugh George Hobson (fourth engineer on SS. "Belgian Prince"; D.S.R.C (election of representatives); University Examination Results; Old Students' Association; War Notes (includes details of Military Medal awarded to Gladys Victoria King); Past and Present (With apologies to T. Hood) - poem by Mary Edwards; Engineering Society (includes details of lecture on "Electric Railways" by Mr Dover); Battersea - Morning and Evening (Mary Edwards); Physical Training College (includes details of a tennis tournament, successes gained by students in the session 1916-17 & news of old students); Sayings of Great Men and Women; Some Meteorological Conditions Which May Affect Commercial Flying in the Future; Holiday Work on the Land (description of a young 'lidy' worker's experience working on the land for a month during the summer); Domestic Science Exhibition at the Central Hall, Westminster (included an encounter with royalty - Queen Alexandra and Princess Mary); Artwork - "After the Day's Work" by Mary Edwards; Domestic Science Training Dept. Debating Society (Domestic Science Training Dept. (appointments gained); Wangling; The Literary and Debating Society; What To Do in the Lab; Hygiene and Physiology Dept.; The Ideal (signed Sagitta); Things We'd Like To Know.
Volume 10: No.50, Mar 1918. Photo of Major Frederick Henry Johnson (V.C., R.E.), killed in action Nov 28th 1917. Articles include: Editorial; Roll of Honour, including Frederick Henry Johnson (An Appreciation) - he was a former editor of the Magazine and 2nd Lieutenant C. H. Newton; Roll of Distinction - Fourteenth List; Engineering Society (includes visits); Hygiene Department; Photograph of Miss Gladys Victoria King, ex-student; The Kingdom of Ayctithry; Chemistry Colloquium; Small Advertisements; Visit to a Dairy-Farm; Domestic Science Training Department Debating Society; Illustrations advertising War Bonds; Domestic Science Training Department; On Dit.; A Flight (description of Hjalmir Sorenso's experience in a Maurice Farmer two-seater "pusher" biplane); A Few Definitions; Rifle Club; Episodes In Teaching; The Task; Illustration - "Science Dept. The Strengths of Materials Section"; Hints to Would-Be Authors; Eurythmics; The Postulant; Literary and Debating Society; Answers to Correspondents; National War Bond Campaign (details the artwork submitted from Battersea Art Dept. which was used to create posters advertising the war bond campaign); "Sleeping Out"; That Awful --------?.
Volume 10: No.51, Jul 1918. Artwork - "Lawn Tennis in Battersea Park - a rough impression". Articles include: Editorial; Roll of Honour (including 2nd Lieut. Cecil Herbert Newton, Royal Flying Corps., 2nd Air Mechanic George Richard Heasler, Royal Flying Corps); Roll of Distinction - Fifteenth List; Military Awards; Literary and Debating Society; Old Students' Association Concert; "Scouts" (includes descriptions and details of scouting biplanes of the day); Domestic Science Training Dept. Debating Society; Domestic Science Training Dept.; Words Winged! |