Military Collateral Material

Every now and then, I will come across material that has information that cane used in my Canadian military postal history collection. Maps, such as the ones I have posted here are really helpful.

These maps help me to do my write-ups in my albums.

Chimo

Bujutsu

Bujutsu, that is very nice & interesting material. Canada always answered the bugle call for England.

regards, Theron.

They are all still subjects of the queen, so no surprise there.

Very nice, Bujutsu; these maps bring to mind FDR asking people to sit with an Atlas during his radio broadcast, two decades later, so he could explain the war in the Pacific ... and they did!

(If we're lucky, Acanalizo will work his magic, and find us a link to that speech.)

For the first map, I note in passing the '12th Edition' and 'Copyright 1914'.

Q/ Was there that much demand, that quickly? Or, were publishers less nutty about updating copyright dates than they are today?

I also note the descriptor '... Great European War ...', which has been addressed, before.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

I could never understand the term "Great War" or "Great European War". What is so great about any war???

I realize WW I was the first war that took in so many nations around the globe.

Chimo

Bujutsu

Our common usage of the world 'great' has changed quite a bit.

To put it too simply, it once meant something along the lines of 'big & (neutrally) important', as in the 'Great Wall of China' or, better, the 'Great Circle Calculation' ...

... or, for us stampies & coinies, the "Great Seal of the United States of America'.

We've added an element of approbation that was not there at that time or, perhaps, we've come to emphasize an element of approbation that was barely there at that time.

As a corollary, look at what happened to the words 'dynamite' (in your youth) and 'awesome' (more recently).

We have, like, so taken the 'dumb-struck' out of 'awesome', Dude.

The changes in the import of these simple, common words - and our forgetting what they meant a mere one hundred years ago - should give pause to everyone who hangs the lives of others on Middle English translations of Latin/Greek translations of Aramaic/Hebrew texts.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey