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The Captain was a monthly magazine. I'm not sure when it was founded, but believe it was about 1899. It's primary claim to fame among these magazine were regular articles by P G Wodehouse. The Captain wasn't precisely an annual. Most are half-yearly
editions made up of six monthly issues. The monthly issues of the magazine were bound together for the annuals, minus the ads.
The Captain was a monthly magazine. I'm not sure when it was founded, but believe it was about 1899. It's primary claim to fame among these magazine were regular articles by P G Wodehouse.
The monthly issues cost 6 pence in 1915.
The Captain wasn't precisely an annual. Most are half-yearly
editions made up of six monthly issues. The monthly issues of the magazine were bound together for the annuals, minus the ads.
A sample of the contens is thislist of articles from the February 1911 issue (volune 24, number 143.)
387 "Pillingshotis Paper" by P. G. Wodehouse - short story (ss); illus. T. M. R. Whitwell
393 "The Brig 'Jane Mary'" [Part 5 of 6] by Francis Marlowe serial segment (sl); illus. R. Caton Woodville
407 "N.T.B.R." [*Castleburgh College] by Capt. G. A. Hope - ss
417 "Appearances Are Deceptive" by R. C. Tharp - poem (pm)
418 "Lacrosse as a School Game" by C. E. Thomas - article (ar)
423 "Freyya�s Fountain" by W. Victor Cook - ss; illus. John De Walton
430 "Models & Model Making" by Henry Greenly - column (cl)
435 "Playing the Game!" by Gunby Hadath - ss; illus. S. T. Dodd
442 "The Worst House at Sherborough" [Part 5 of 6] by Desmond Coke - serial segment (sl); illus. T. M. R. Whitwell
453 "Good Plays for School Stages" by H. Stafford Webber - ar
456 "The Pride of the Camp" by Edward Huntington - ss; illus. Paul Hardy
461 "The House of Mystery" by E. Le Breton Martin - ss; illus. George Soper
467 "The Captain Stamp Collector" by Percy C. Bishop - cl
471 "Outwitting the Apaches" by Ellis Ellson - ss; illus. Paul Hardy
473 "Long Words" by T. F. Barratt - ar
474 Editorial "The Old Fag" - editorial (ed).
Note that here the illustrators are indicated.
Note the advertisement here aimed at "You boys who cannot enlist". They ar encouraged to build model rail roads. Some how it seems to us in rather poor taste. I'm not sure how it woukd have been received at the time.
This World War I "Captain" magazine from 1915 has a suitably patriotic cover. Note the Allied (English, French, and Italian) scout uniforms. Note that the Russians who undoubtedly saved France in 1914 are not included. It is interesting to speculate why this might be. We know that there was a Russian Scout movement. It was founded in 1909. It was much smaller than the British, French, or Italian Scout movement, but it did exist. We believe that they were not included because Allied war propaganda was aimed at painting the War as the defense of democracy by the democracies against the authoritative German and Austrian Empires. This was very important in the effort to draw America into the War. The absolutist Rusian Empire headed by the Tsar hardly fitted into the image that the Allies wanted to portray. It was of course the Russians that payed the greatest price of any country in lives lost nd the final Allied victory would not have been possible without them.
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