Civilian Collection (#4)

WW2 Poster -- Your Release can be delayed with VD
Your Release can be delayed with VD! Colour lithograph, British Army anti-venereal disease medical information poster, after 2nd Lieutenant Stacey Hopper

The Bystander cover - March to War
An illustration on the front cover of the magazine the Bystander, showing the recruitment effort by the British during WW1. It shows a soldier demanding a civilian man to MARCH! to war

Colonial volunteers inspected by Major-General Bethune, WW1
Major-General Bethune inspecting colonial volunteers on the Horse Guards Parade wearing their civilian clothes, including, at one end, a man in top hat and tails

French World War One refugees
Liberation: the freeing of the civil population. Rescued after living for four years in the enemy lines: a party of French refugees being conveyed to safety in Northern France after cessation of

Three cartoons at the start of the First World War: at the top, a comment on needing another war to collect the debts for this one

U. S. O. Club operated by the Salvation Army - WWII
U. S. O. Club operated by the Salvation Army - the United Services Organization Inc. a private, non-profit organization that provides morale and recreational services to members of the U.S. military

RSS Discovery handed over to Sea Scouts
RSS Discovery handed over to HRH Duke of Kent, Commodore of Sea Scouts, by Mr Ormsby Gore, with Chief Scout Lord Baden-Powell in attendance. 9 October 1937

Apres la Guerre no. 5 - postcard drawn by George Ranstead
Humorous drawing on a postcard by George Ranstead, an amateur soldier artist of the Great War. This image, one of a series suggesting what life might be like at the end of the war

Are YOU in this? A poster designed by Robert Baden-Powell during the First World War showing British citizens joining in the war effort

Crashed V-1 Flying Bomb; Second World War, 1944
Photograph showing a French civilian (left) and a Canadian Sergeant examining a crashed German V-1 Flying Bomb rocket, France, 1944

Young men in UOTC, Epsom, Surrey, WW1
Young men in the University Officers Training Corps at Epsom, Surrey, autumn 1914, marching across a field. Among them is Albert Auerbach (1894-1918), who later joined the Royal Fusiliers. Date: 1914

Man posing with rifle, wearing civilian clothes and a Company A, 8th Infantry Regiment badge on his hat. circa 1910

Wartime drills at the London Stock Exchange, 1940
With the threat of German invasion looming, workers at the London Stock Exchange receive basic military training on the trading floor

WW1 - Civilian recruits standing outside recruiting office
Photograph postcard of civilian recruits standing outside an unidentified recruiting office, 1914-1915 (c). Some of the group carry bags and parcels

Hand-painted Example of ?Birks Grotesques?
?Conchy?. Ceramic figurine manufactured by Birks, Rawlins and Company Limited at the Vine Pottery, Stoke on Trent, 1914-1918 (c)

Academic Rifle Corps marching, Malmo, Sweden
Members of the Academic Rifle Corps and University Rifles marching in the streets of Malmo, Sweden, on 7 or 8 May 1921. Date: 1921

Old Bill and Co. September 1940
" No, you were wrong, Bill! That wasn t another warnin you eard." Bruce Bairnsfathers cartoon makes light of the repeated air-raid warnings civilians were subjected to during the Battle of

Communist China - civilians laying a landmine
Communist China - Chinese civilians playing their part in the conflict by laying a landmine to hold back the Japanese invaders during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945). circa 1940s

Tommy?s washing day in Flanders
Photograph: Tommy?s washing day in Flanders. Many a mere male civilian would prefer a day in the trenches, but the British soldier is quite a handy man

?how merrily we live that Soldiers be?.Coloured lithograph published by A Sharpe, 1828 (c).Associated with the Hussars.Three drunken soldiers outside a tavern, as a farm worker looks

Soldiers and civilians, Braunschweig, Germany
Soldiers (British Army of the Rhine) and civilians in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, postwar Germany. Date: circa 1946

WW1 German poster, Brirener Bank war loans
German poster, Brirener Bank 8th issue of war loans. circa 1918

WW1 Poster, Feed the Guns with War Bonds
Poster, Feed the Guns with War Bonds and Help to End the War. circa 1918

The garden party to V. C.s at Buckingham Palace
A procession of V.C.s, some in uniform, some in civilian dress, marching in Buckingham Palace for the King afternnon party to recipients of the Victoria Cross, held on 26th June 1920. Date: 1920

Cartoon, On leave in Paris, WW1
Cartoon, On leave in Paris. Two French soldiers outside a cinema are dismayed to see that all the films are about the war -- to think we came here to have fun! Date: 1917

British and enemy civilian food supplies during WWI
Diagram showing the food rations and supplies in Britain compared with that in Germany and Austria during WW1. Date: 1918

Cartoon, The Little War, WW1
Cartoon, The Little War. Children playing a war game. One of them tells his friend: Don t yell like that, you re supposed to be dead! Date: 1917

Cartoon, The Road Menders, WW1
Cartoon, The Road Menders. They stop work to watch the arrival of some VIPs. Date: 1917

Cartoon, The course of the Deutschmark, WW1
Cartoon, The course of the Deutschmark. The nymphs of the goldmine have deserted the waters (a parody of Ovid). Two classical female figures walk away as a group of German civilians look despondently

Cartoon, Grandpas advice, WW1
Cartoon, Grandpas advice. An old soldier thinks there should be a tax on umbrellas. Date: 1917

Cartoon, New taxes on dogs, WW1
Cartoon, New taxes on dogs (to help pay for the ongoing war). Women discuss a man who has replaced his dog with a goldfish in order to avoid paying the tax, and is taking it for a walk. Date: 1917

Policewomen recruits measured for height, London
Policewomen recruits in civilian clothes being measured for height by a woman police officer (possibly Inspector Alice B Clayden). Another woman police officer watches from behind a desk

Women police officers at Pembridge Hall Section House, WW2
Women police officers in the dining room at Pembridge Hall Section House, Pembridge Square, Bayswater, London W2. Date: circa 1940

Woman police officer at Pembridge Hall Section House
Woman police officer doing her hair in a mirror, sitting in her bedroom at Pembridge Hall Section House, Pembridge Square, Bayswater, London W2

Group photo, male and female police officers, London
Group photo, male and female police officers on a Met Police CID training course for detective constables, taken on 13 March 1948

Wedding group with police officers
Group photo of a police wedding, with the happy couple and some of the guests in civilian clothes, and five men in police uniform. Date: circa 1950s

Women police officers and others, Isle of Man, WW2
Four women police officers and others in a group photo at an internment camp, Port Erin, Isle of Man, during the Second World War, where they were responsible for security, including luggage checks

Chief Superintendent Jessie B Moss, Met Police, London. Date: circa 1970s

Bulgaria - State Railway School No. 17
State Railway School - Railway Regiment of the Ministry of War No.17 (1940-1942) - Bulgaria. Under the Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine (1919)

Civilian woman with woman police sergeant
A civilian woman in white shirt and striped tie, sitting on a bed with a small suitcase, talking to a woman police sergeant

Quex Park VAD patients & staff in hall of house
VAD hospital patients and staff in the hall of Quex House in March 1915. The hall was used as a recreation space for the patients

Patients and nurses in front of Quex House
A group of patients, with five VAD nurses, in front of Quex House in about 1915. On the left can be seen the Winter Garden, a large conservatory joined to the drawing room of Quex House

Loading an ambulance at Ramsgate Town Station
Loading a stretcher into an ambulance at Ramsgate Town Station in March 1916. Several men, including service personnel and a civilian are assisting lifting a stretcher holding a patient into the top

Three men in the gardens of Quex House, with saw
Three men are standing in the garden of Quex House. One is holding a long saw. The man on the left is in civilian clothes and may have been employed at Quex Park

Three men standing by wooden escape ladder at Quex
Three men are standing by an extendable wooden ladder. Two of the men are wearing the patients uniform of hospital blues but the trousers only

Three Belgian hospital patients outside Quex House
Three Belgian hospital patients standing outside the front of Quex House. The verandah behind them was outside the Drawing Room where A Ward was situated

Group of Belgian and British soldiers at Quex Park, with three members of the VAD staff. The Belgian men are wearing civilian clothes. All the British soldiers are in army uniform

Photograph of three VAD patients at Quex Park VAD Hospital. The man on the right is Artieme Mettrie who was a patient at the hospital between 14th November 1914 and 13th May 1915

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