Belgian Collection (#38)

Refugee children in London WWII
Young Belgian refugees having a meal at a London station after their arrival in England the day before during World War II

Refugee police registration WWII
Belgian refugees register with the British police on arrival in Britain during World War II

Refugee distribution centre WWII
An official interpreter at the distributing centre helps Belgian refugees fill our food ration cards during World War II

Filling in Food ration card WWII
Jenny de Graaf, a Belgian refugee arriving in London, fills out a form for a food ration card at the Fulham distributing centre during World War II

Belgian trawlerman WWII
Belgian trawlerman fishing during World War II

Henley Regatta Winners from Belgium
The winners of the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta, from the Royal Club & Royal Sport Nautique Club of Ghent, Belgium. This is the 8-man crew with cox (seated in cap) and trainer

Fishing boat returning to port - Ostend, Belgium

Ostend - Belgium
Souvenir postcard from Ostend, Belgium

British planes WWII
British planes carrying Airborne troops for the landing in Holland during World War II, pass over the Belgian flag, symbol of the liberation of the Belgian people

Belgian refugees in London are fitted with gas masks at Fulham Borough Council during World War II

Belgium - Port of Ostende
Port of Ostende, Belgium. The mailship ferry departs the harbour as young boys fish off the pier, while others just lean on the railings watching the ships disappear into the North Sea

World War I
A British soldier looks through a periscope from behind a bunker on the Belgian coast on the Western Front in Belgium during World War I in 1917

The Defence of Liege
Belgian forces defend the city of Liege from the German advance during the early days of the war. The German plan to neutralise the twelve modern forts that surrounded the city within two days was

Belgium - Senior Belgian Railway Official & daughter standing in front of his house which boast the most elegant and exotic net curtains one is likely to witness in ones lifetime

Wartime Beds at Earls Court, West London
A First World War refugee camp for Belgian refugees at Earls Court. Around one thousand beds in the Queens Palace were provided by the Metropolitan Asylums Board in 1914

Gerard Leman / Stamp
GERARD MATHIEU LEMAN (1851 - 1920) Belgian general and Governor of Liege

Fetis, Francois Joseph 1784 - 1871
Francois Joseph Fetis. Belgian musicologist, musician, composer, critic and teacher. Date: 1784 - 1871

Elizabeth of Bavaria / Stamp
ELISABETH OF BAVARIA Wife of Albert I, King of Belgium

Albert I / Stamp
ALBERT I King of Belgium (1909-34)

Marie Jose of Belgium / Stamp
MARIA JOSE OF BELGIUM Wife of Umberto of Savoy, Prince of Piedmont, and daughter of Albert of Belgium

Mayor of Brussels / Stamp
ADOLPHE EUGENE JEAN HENRI MAX (1869 - 1939) Belgian liberal politician and Mayor of Brussels from 1909 until his death

Belgian Congo - Market at Kabinda
A native Central African market at Kabinda, Congo

Laeken, Belgium
The Japanese House at the foot of the Pagoda at Laeken, Belgium (a residential suburb in north-west Brussels). The buildings were commissioned by King Leopold II

Vauxhall Bridge Road, Pimlico, London - outside Parnells arcade. The Victory March and the Belgian Band - 19th July 1919

Philippines - Building a Church
The Van Scheut Mission building a Christian Church in the Philippines. The Van Scheut Mission was closely linked to the prominent Belgian priest Frank Verbiest

Advertising Card for rug importer
Advertising card for a Belgian Turkish rug importer, showing the owner of the company, Leonhard Tietz, negotiating the price of a rug. He had an office in Rassim Pacha Han in Istanbul

Prince George and war ambulance
Prince George, later Duke of Kent (1902-1942), fourth son of King George V and Queen Mary, in the courtyard of Buckingham Palace with Mr Hansell

Belgium: the coast
Poster from the Belgian Luxembourg tourism office in Brussels proclaiming the attractions of the Belgian coast with a female figure in beach wear and sun hat against a blue ground with beach huts

Coupe Pilette at the automobile club of Spa, in Belgium, on Sunday 15th September 1907. Motoring poster for the L Automobile Club de Spa featuring an early Pilette car and two men

Belgian soldiers sleep in a church while women and civilians pray for their countrs liberation

King George V at the front with King Albert, reviewing Belgian troops

Street and house-to-house fighting. A commonplace of the struggle on the Franco-Belgian border

King Alberts Fete day: The royal Belgian children at Westmi
Cardinal Bourne greeting Prince Leopold, Duc de Bradant; Prince Charles, Comte de Flandre and Princess Marie-Jose of Belgium

During the fierce fighting near Dixmude: A Belgian Red Cross nurse visiting Belgian soldiers in the trenches

The Intruder: What the billeting of German soldiers too often means to French and Belgian villagers

On the Belgian Frontier: German field guns being run forward to open fire

A waist deep shell hole in a Belgian Street: In a war wrecke
WWI, World War One, First World War, 1st World War. World War 1, The Great War

Belgian Civilians being deported to Germany, 1916
Illustration showing Belgian civilians being ordered around a train station by German soldiers as they were deported to Germany to work in heavy industry there, December 1916

A Belgian Church service under German Guard; First World War
Illustration showing a Belgian priest reading Cardinal Merciers protest against deportations to his congregation, whilst a German soldier stands guard at the bottom of his pulpit, 1916

Belgian people kissing the Union Jack
Illustration by Lascelles, of a crowd of Belgian people gathered outside the British consulate in Ostend, kissing the Union Jack

Belgian women giving out walnuts
Brave Belgian women giving out walnuts to French soldiers in the trenches near Antwerp, between Duffel and Lierre

Belgian soldiers working a Hotchkiss machine-gun
Photograph showing two Belgian soldiers working a Hotchkiss machine-gun. The revolving barrel Hotchkiss machine-gun was invented by the American

The Belgian Royal family
King Albert of Belgium seen with his family, the Queen Elizabeth, their daughter Princess Marie Jose (left), Prince Charles, Count of Flanders (middle) and Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant (right)

Joffre and King Albert of Belgium
General Joffre in conversation with King Albert of Belgium (1875-1934), Commander-in-Chief of the Belgian army. Albert was credited with leading a gallant Belgian resistance against the German army

Belgian soldiers retreat
Belgian soldiers in August 1914, retreating to Antwerp, accompanied by dogs pulling machine guns. As the Germans pushed their invasion through Belgium, the Belgium army was forced to retreat

Belgian peasant refugees
A Belgian peasant family with a dog-drawn cart, walk into Brussels after fleeing their homes in the wake of the German invasion of 1914

Louvains town hall saved
Illustration showing crowds of German officers looting the Belgian town of Louvain during World War I. The city was devastated by the German invasion in September 1914

Baron De Zuylen
BARON DE ZUYLEN Belgian-French automobiliste

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