Bayonet Collection (#4)

WWI Poster, Halt! Who goes there?
Halt! Who goes there? If you are a friend, join the British ranks and help the brave lads at the front. Parliamentary Recruiting Committee poster. Date: 1915

WWI Poster, Come and do your bit, join now
Come and Do Your Bit, Join Now. Parliamentary Recruiting Committee poster, with a smiling, beckoning soldier in khaki. Date: 1916

WW2 Poster -- Smash Japanese Aggression
Smash Japanese Aggression. Propaganda poster, colour lithograph, showing the Gloucester Regiment in action. Date: 1945

Imperial Army Series Drill and Field Training. - WWI
Imperial Army Series Drill and Field Training - Attack, Defence, Outposts, Scouting, Bayonet Fighting, Field Sketching, Night Operations - based on Infantry Training 1914 (4-Company Organisation)

WWI Bayonet paper knife engraved - Ostende
First World War Bayonet paper knife engraved with the town of Ostende. Commemorative Ware

Russian bayonet charge in East Prussia
In East Prussia, between Korschen and Bartenstein, a Russian bayonet charge has a devastating effect on the German forces. Date: 26 August 1914

3 / 20th London Regiment (Blackheath & Woolwich) in training
The Army in training, in this instance the 3/20th London Regiment (Blackheath and Woolwich). 1. Round the cook house, 2, the boot repairers, 3, bayonet practice, 4. non-commissioned officers 5

First day of the Somme - fixing bayonets
The Lancashire Fusiliers in a trench seen fixing bayonets, ready for action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme (1 July 1916). 1916

Ivan Ivanovitch, the Russian Tommy Atkins, WW1
Ivan Ivanovitch, the Russian Tommy Atkins at the start of the First World War. A typical Russian soldier smiles and salutes. Date: August 1914

Poster, Beat Back the Hun with Liberty Bonds, WW1
American poster, Beat Back the Hun with Liberty Bonds, designed to raise money for the war effort during the First World War. Showing a menacing German with bloody fingers and bayonet. Date: 1917-1918

Austrian Kaiserjaeger soldiers, WW1
Austrian Kaiserjaeger (Tyrolean regiment) soldiers during the First World War. They are fighting an Italian Bersaglieri battalion in the southern Tyrol. Date: circa 1917

Belgian gun with folding bayonet. SPAIN. Vitoria

York railway station with H. L. Oakley silhouette posters
York railway station in the north east of England, with H. L. Oakley silhouette recruitment posters on display outside, probably during the early stages of the First World War. circa 1914-1915

WW1 recruitment poster with silhouette
World War One recruitment poster with silhouette -- The Thin Khaki Line Keeps the Fate of Belgium from Your Hearth and Home, Get into Khaki Now! Showing a determined soldier with a bayoneted rifle

Wounded Montenegrin soldier, eastern front, WW1
A wounded Montenegrin soldier struggling through the snow on the eastern front during the First World War. Date: 1915-1917

Austrian soldier with defence shield, Galicia, WW1
An Austro-Hungarian soldier holding a defence shield in front of him in Galicia, on the Eastern Front, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Burmese soldier with rifle and bayonet, WW1
A Burmese soldier, probably a member of the Burma Rifles, a regiment of the British Indian Army, formed in 1917 during the First World War. Seen here posing for his photo with rifle and bayonet

Bayonet Charge - British soldier - World War One
Don t be Alarmed, the Bulford Boys are on guard. A Patriotic postcard depicting a Britsih infantryman (from Bulford Camp, an army base near Salisbury Plain)

Soldiers in trench with fixed bayonets
A group of soldiers in a trench with fixed bayonets, during the First World War

Battle of Verdun 1916
French bayonet charge across no-mans land at the Battle of Verdun on the French front during World War I on August 1916

A British sentry in Flanders, WW1. 1914-1918

Prussian military, on foot and horseback. 19th century

American and Canadian troops, WW1
American and Canadian troops during the First World War. Although America did not join the war officially until April 1917, an American Legion had already gone into action, consisting of 16

Unexploded German bomb on display, Italy, WW1
Unexploded German bomb on display, Italy, First World War, with an Italian soldier standing alongside. Date: 1914-1918

War Budget cover - 1916
Front cover of The War Budget showing a British soldier, bayonet fixed, looking determinedly into the future as a New Year - 1916 - dawns. Date: 1915

Elizabeth Cowell at the BBC
Given its access to sensitive information, the BBC had to be on the lookout for potential spies during the Second World War

Corporal of the Egyptian Police - Sousse, Tunisia Date: circa 1905

Communist China - training exercise in water
Swimmers in the water in Communist China, taking part in a training exercise to build up their mental and physical strength. They are male and female, some of them carrying rifles. circa 1970

Victorious Irish guard decorated by Madeleine
" Take this back to Tipperary" - At the end of WW1, a victorious Irish guard is decorated by a thankful Madeleine, the personification of the French State. Date: circa 1918

France. Liberal Revolution, 1848. National Assembly invaded
France. Liberal Revolution, 1848. Popular uprising to force the abdication of King Louis Philippe of Orleans and proclaim the Second Republic (Days 22 to 24 February)

Two soldiers on a stirrup-shaped New Year card
Two soldiers, one of them on sentry duty, on a stirrup-shaped New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Greetings card in the shape of a sentry box with guard
Greetings card in the shape of a sentry box with a guard standing in front. Date: circa 1890s

Soldiers marching on a New Year card, carrying a large pudding. Date: circa 1890s

Happy Families - Mr Thomas Atkins. circa 1940s

Return of Louis XVI to Paris after his arrest at Varennes af
French Revolution (1789-1799). Return of Louis XVI to Paris after his arrest at Varennes after his escape attempt. June 25, 1791. Engraving by Dupre. Universal Library. Popular editions, 1851. Colored

The Ten Years War (1868A?i?1878). Cuba. Catalan volunteer
The Ten Years War (1868A?i?1878), also known as the Great War and the War of 68. It was the first of three liberation wars that Cuba fought against Spain. Catalan volunteer. Colored engraving

Russia. Moscow. 1856. Ceremony to welcome the participants in the siege of Sevastopol defense, during the Crimean War (1853-1856). Lithography by Vasili Fedorovich (George Wilhelm) Timm (1820-1895)

World War I (1914-1918). Use of choking smoke in the attacks on French and British troops. May 1915. Colored engraving

Unites States. American War of Independence (1775-1783). American revolutionaries toppling the statue of the English King George III who, after being fused

Cartoon, Broken down, WW1
Cartoon, Broken down. A GVC (Gardes-Voies et Communications) soldier speaks to a passenger who is complaining about the delay to his train

WW2 - 1st day cover - Hes Betting his life - You back him up! Date: circa 1943

French Officer C18
(Left) The Musket as carried by an Officer of the French Army. (Right) A French Officer saluting with his Musket. Date: 1766

Cartoon, The peaceful ex-scarecrow, WW1
Cartoon, the peaceful ex-scarecrow, a satirical comment on the mistake of believing in a peaceful relationship between France and Germany during the First World War. Date: 1915

Nicolas Ii / Beurre 1908
NIKOLAY ALEKSANDROVICH TSAR NICOLAS II (1894-1917) Proclaiming his readiness for anything - and carrying all kinds of weapons Date: 1908

Koeniggratz - Bayonets
BATTLE OF KOENIGGRATZ (aka Sadowa) - bayonet charge by the Prussian infantry Date: 3 July 1866

Armed soldiers riding in a truck, Petrograd, Russia
Armed soldiers riding in a truck, Petrograd (St Petersburg), Russia, during the Revolution. Date: 1917

Duma messengers protected by guards, Petrograd, Russia
Duma messengers protected by armed guards, Petrograd (St Petersburg), during the Russian Revolution. The cars were used to travel at great speed around the city. Date: 1917

French Zouave soldier. Date: 1852

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