Drilling Collection (page 3)

With the Army, Telling off a platoon, WW1 cartoon
A platoon is given a dressing down by the commanding officer inspecting them. Date: 1916

Inspecting recruits at Tower of London, WW1
An Inspector of Recruits at the Tower of London. These were men who volunteered at the outbreak of war and are pictured still in civilian clothes. Date: 1914

Firefighters in training with various equipment in a drill yard

AFS women, gas mask drill, WW2
AFS women doing a gas mask drill during the Second World War

LFB water relaying drills, Hyde Park, London
LFB water relaying drills taking place in Hyde Park, London, on 12 February 1938, watched by mothers and their children. Date: 1938

Junior LFB firefighters practise on a Wheeled Escape Ladder Date: circa 1950s

Bystander - Making assurance doubly sure
An illustration showing a sergeant teaching his soldiers how to stab someone with a bayonet to maximise the effect of the stab by twisting the bayonet, in preparation for fighting in WW1. Date: 1916

Scouts of the 4th Calcutta Troop, India
Scouts of the 4th Calcutta (Armenian College) Troop, India, doing physical drill

Boer volunteers drilling, Market Square Johannesburg, South Africa

Oil wells at Los Angeles, California, USA. Date: 20th century

Lunchtime scene on the Embankment, London, WW1
Rank Outsiders. A lunchtime scene on the Embankment, London, at the start of the First World War. Young men who could be joining up to fight stand idly watching through the railings as the Inns of

Inns of Court Brigade on the march, WW1
Men of the Inns of Court OTC (Officer Training Corps) Brigade on the march in London during a drilling exercise at the start of the First World War. They are all members of the legal profession

Drilling recruits in Temple Gardens, London, WW1
Drilling recruits in Temple Gardens, London, at the start of the First World War, while a tennis match goes on in the background

Soldiers drilling 1914
Soldiers drilling in a Hull street, watched by members of the public August 1914

Signal Hill Oil Field at night, California, USA, with Long Beach visible in the distance. Date: circa 1938

Conscripts fail to impress their sergeant
WW2 - " I can see that you ve done this drill before - once." Conscripts fail to impress their sergeant with their drilling... Date: 1945

Japan - Drill for Japanese Sailors on deck of HIJMS Asama during the Russo-Japanese War (8th February 1904 5th September 1905). The card was sent on 25th June 1904. Date: 1904

Two Naughty boys taking a drill to an unfortunate front door
Two little boys from Northern Italy up to no good, Here they are taking a drill to the door of a less-favoured relative (possibly a Battleaxe Aunt)

A Burmese Oilfield - showing a vast forest of wooden drilling rigs. Date: circa 1910s

Dryocopus martius, black woodpecker
Plate 25 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Chrysocolaptes lucidus, greater flame-backed woodpecker
Plate 19, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Dendrocopos macei analis, fulvous-breasted woodpecker
Plate 23, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Picus miniaceus, banded woodpecker
Plate 22, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Dinopium benghalense, black-rumped woodpecker
Plate 21, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Campephilus melanoleucos, Crimson-crested Woodpecker
Plate 4 from Alfred Malherbes Monograph des Picidees, Vol.3, (1861)

Picus viridis, green woodpecker
Pencil and monochrome wash by Frederick William Frohawk sketched from life as seen through a telescope, (c. 1920)

Workmen drilling in Bristol, possibly doing maintenance work on the underground sewerage system. Date: circa 1950s

NFS fitness demonstration, Regional HQ. Lambeth, WW2
Firefighters of the newly formed National Fire Service (London Region) put on a physical fitness demonstration at a review of the fire service in Lambeths drill yard at the Headquarters of the London

Part Time Competition at the Lambeth HQ Building, WW2
Firefighters of the newly formed National Fire Service (London Region) put on a physical fitness demonstration at a review of the fire service in Lambeths drill yard at the Headquarters of the London

London Fire Brigade HQ workshop, Lambeth
Men at work in the London Fire Brigade HQ workshop, Lambeth

London firefighters drilling at Brigade HQ, Lambeth SE1
LCC-LFB firefighters (recruits) under instruction and drill in the drill yard of Brigade Headquarters at Lambeth (also a fire station)

Drilling an old soldier

Clothing of oil drilling workers drying on steam pipe, Kilgore, Texas. Date 1939 Apr

Opening of the opera season - drilling the merry villagers

Romanian Soldiers on the training ground. Date: 1903

Romania - National Exhibition of 1906 (16 / 16)
Romania - National Exhibition of 1906 - Drilling Derrick exhibit Date: 1906

Romania - National Exhibition of 1906 (13 / 16)
Romania - National Exhibition of 1906 - Bucharest - Drilling Derrick Exhibit Date: 1906

Soldiers in the rain

Longbeach Beach
Off shore oil drilling riggs at Longbeach, California, U.S.A. Date: late 1960s

Using a Seed Drill
Spring drilling kale seed with an old-fashioned horse-drawn seed drill on a farm near Grimscote, Northamptonshire, England. Date: early 1960s

Gold Miners
Miners drilling the rock face of a Wit Watersrand gold mine, South Africa. Date: 1930s

Drilling Sugar Beet
Drilling sugar beet on a farm in Norfolk, England. Date: 1950s

Turkish infantry drilling, Yedikule, Turkey, WW1
Turkish infantry drilling at Yedikule (Fortress of the Seven Towers), near Istanbul, Turkey, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

American troops training in France, WW1
American troops taking part in machine gun training in France during the First World War Date: September 1917

Gun crew drilling on British trawler HM Principal, WW1
A gun crew drilling on the British trawler HM Principal during the First World War. Date: 1916

Kitcheners army recruits drilling, Chatham, Kent, WW1
Kitcheners army recruits drilling outside the Royal Engineers Electrical School at Chatham, Kent, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Improved radial drilling machine, plans, front, back and side elevations Date: 1848

British in Mexico, 1914
Front cover of the Illustrated London News showing members of the British colony in Mexico city preparing to defend themselves in anticipation of unrest in the capital

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