| Description | Bound volume containing issues 45-48 of The Battersea Polytechnic Magazine, produced by the Battersea Polytechnic Day Students' Representative Council. Dates and summarised contents of issues are given below:
Volume 9: No.45, Dec 1916. Photograph of the late Captain T. W. Lonsdale, M.C., Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. Articles include: Editorial (which details three old students who had died in World War One - Capt. T.W. Lonsdale, M.C., Lieut. H.E. Bulbeck and Lieut. A. E. M. A. Hawke (portraits of all three are published in this issue); Roll of Honour, including Capt. Thomas Wilkes Lonsdale (died 5th June 1916, in France. Studied engineering at Battersea and was a member of the Officer Training Corps, as a sergeant. He was awarded a military cross.), Lieut. H. E. Bulbeck (who was killed in action on November 6th. He was gazetted to the Royal Fusiliers and went to Gallipoli.) and Lieut. A. E. M. A. Hawke (an evening student at the Polytechnic who obtained a commission to the King's Royal Rifles but was killed in action in France and died on September 11th 1916); Roll od Distinction - ninth list; Day Students' Representative Council; Rifle Club; Engineering Society (including visits to Bryant and May's Match Works; Messers. William Sugg and Co., Ltd. and Osram Robertson Lamp Works); My Experiences of Our English Friends (written by F. W. Goossens, a Belgian soldier); Things We Want to Know; Domestic Science Training Dept. Debating Society; Training Dept. of Domestic Science (Teaching Appointments Gained); From the Press (regarding a Miss Kathleen Flower, ex-staff); Hygiene Dept. Dramatic Performance (A Midsummer Night's Dream); What Our Lecturers Tell Us; A Letter From a Cook in the 1st London General Hospital; Physical Training College; The Diary of an Attache Case; Five Weeks With The Women's National Land Service Corps; "Wells" Gold Medal; Some More Sayings of Great Men; Answers to Correspondents; Per Ardua Ad Astra (poem); Advertisements.
Volume 9: No.46, Mar 1917. Photograph of Sister Kathleen Elizabeth Flower. Articles include: Editorial; Roll of Honour (includes details and photographs of the late Sergt. C. F. Miller who was killed in action in France on 7th July 1916, Captain Hector John Sutherland who died from acute bronchitis on 7th February 1917 while on active service) and Corporal Alec Johnstone (a former student of the secondary school & Day Technical College; Sister Flower; Corporal F. H. Hendry, R. E., D. C. M.; Roll of Distinction - tenth list.; Letter from F. W. Johnson to A Member of the Staff; The Social; It Is Rumoured; The Royal Flying Corps.; An Unknown Spot; A Well-Deserved Honour; Old Students' Association; Lieut. Aysh E. Hawke: An Appreciation (by G.C. Wickins, Lieut. R.E. (T.)); Training of Disabled Soldiers and Sailors; Picture (When the Polytechnic Skates!!! Puzzle - Find Yourself); Clubs & Societies (Day Students' Representative Council, Literary and Debating Society; Photograph of a group of R.F.A. Officers (includes an old Battersea student - Lieut. A. D. Chalmers); Engineering Society - Visits to Works (Price's Patent Candle Co.), Rifle Club, Domestic Science Training Department Debating Society (details of a lecture on "War Savings" from Countess Ferrers); The River At Chelsea; Pot Pourri: Or, The Poly. Irish Stew; Domestic Science Training Department (list of students engaged in full-time war work); Appointments obtained by students of the Training Department of Domestic Science since the last issue of the Magazine:-, Drama Up To Date (In Five Acts); "Moorgate" Stylo advert.
Volume 9: No.47, May 1917. Ink Drawing of Man with Gun titled 'A Study'. Articles include: Editorial; Engineering Society; Roll of Distinction - Eleventh List; Land Work for the Holidays - An Appeal (for help with hay-making/ harvesting/ fruit picking during the summer); A Story - By Four Scientists; The Maltese People As I Saw Them; Elocution Classes Costume Performance; What To Do in the Chemistry Lab (Hints by the Authorities); 'And though they were worthy, they were wys' (entertaining piece on the club secretaries); Domestic Science Training Dept. Debating Society (including recent appointments from members of that department); Literary & Debating Society; Music Department; England's Frontier; Our V.A.D. Great Sayings; Some Experiences in Preparing An Allotment; Correspondence; Small Advertisements; Kent & Matthews Ltd. "The Bookstall" advert; Pritchett Accumulators advert; "Moorgate" Stylo advert.
Volume 9: No.48, Jul 1917. Photo of the Day Students' Representative Council 1916-17. Articles include: Editorial; Roll of Honour (includes details of Second Lieut. William Bernard Barton, killed in action in World War One on April 28th 1917; Roll of Distinction - Twelfth List (includes information that H. Barnett and A. G. Wright were killed in action); The Late Captain H. J. Sutherland.; Literary & Debating Society; Triolet (On Being Asked to Write for the Magazine); Camp Cooking; How: -!; U. S. R. C.; The Story of an "Always-Going-To- Be-Written" Story; The Cult of the Photo-Micrograph; Photograph of the Staff Vs Students; Cricket Match - Staff v. Students; Day Club Secretaries, 1916-17; Engineering Society - Visits to Works; Great Sayings; We Want to Know; A Day in the life of a Hostel "Domey" Student; Bewildered Gymnasts; Under Protest.; Domestic Science Training Dept. Debating Society; A College Alphabet; A Physics Colloquium; Oh Chemy. Lab. (poem); Correspondence; The Birthday, The Bag and The Bicycle; "He Whom the Cap Fitteth---"; Domestic Science Howlers. |