BL3303156: Spain's war in Africa - An altar under fire'. 'Memorial service to General Pinto on the spot where he fell'. 'Spanish casualties in Africa - wounded first aid at Melilla'. The Second Melillan campaign (the "Melilla War" or Guerra de Melilla in Spanish) was a conflict in 1909 and 1910 in Morocco around Melilla. The fighting involved local Riffian and the Spanish Army. On 26 June, the Spanish suffered a second defeat at the Lobo Canyon, when General Marina sent another force under General Pintos to protect Segunda Caseta. In this ambush, the Rifians killed General Pintos and 153 men, and wounded some 600 others. / Bridgeman Images
BL3303171: The first martyr of the age of age of flight'. Eugène Lefebvre at the time of his marvellous flights at Rheims'. He is shown standing to the left and flying in his Wright biplane'. Eugène Lefebvre (1878- 7 September 1909) was a French aviation pioneer. He was the first person to die while piloting a powered airplane and the second person to be killed in a powered airplane crash. Lefebvre was killed in a crash at Juvisy, when the plane he was testing dropped to the ground from a height of twenty feet. / Bridgeman Images
BL3303197: 'Out in the snow'. 'The fairest Christmas flower'. Photograph of Miss Alexandra Carlisle. Alexandra Carlisle (1886-1936), actor. Born in Hackey, London she was a permanent resident of the USA from 1915, where she became a prominent suffragist speaker and Republican Party activist. / Bridgeman Images