Escorting Collection

WW2 - Flower-Class Corvette in heavy seas - Atlantic Convoy
WW2 - Weather hazards which the convoy escorts in the Atlantic Ocean have to face in Winter - a Flower-Class Corvette, of 930 tonnes, being thrown high out of the water by a heavy sea. Date: 1943

Coronation. Guards Band Queens escort
The Band, part of the Queens escort, mounted by the Bands of the Irish and Scots Guards march off down Victoria Street. 1953

HMS Leviathan, Drake-class armoured cruiser
Royal Navy - HMS Leviathan, a Drake-class armoured cruiser. HMS Leviathan was one of four Drake-class armoured cruisers built for the Royal Navy around 1900

WW2 Christmas card, Escort! A Chelsea Pensioner looks in admiration at an RAF airman with an elegant woman on each arm. Date: 1941

1930s RAF biplane diving with the engine still running
Republic P-47D-25-RE Thunderbolts of the 82nd Squadron 78th Fighter Group, 66th Fighter Wing, escorting Boeing B-176-25-VE Fortress Bomber over the Continent in 1945. Date: 1945

British Soldiers escort German Prisoners - WWI
British Soldiers escorting German Prisoners, destined for internment in England - WWI Date: circa 1915

HMS Encounter, 2nd class protected cruiser, Challenger class
Royal Navy - HMS Encounter, a 2nd-class protected cruiser of the Challenger class, operated by the Royal Navy (RN) and Royal Australian Navy (RAN), as HMAS Encounter

WW2 - Life onboard a corvette escort at sea - the ILN special artist C E Turner accompanied the vessel around various UK ports accompanying a merchant fleet. 1941

Beginning of World War Two, where sailors are relaxing in a destroyer escorting a Convoy. Date: 1939

WW2 - No Time For Sentiment
A wartime children's short story illustration of man escorting a young lady to a room, in which a Royal Air Force serviceman is seated. Date: circa 1940s

Corridor Officials
An illustration of a stubborn looking official escorting a bewildered man wearing white out of a room and down a corridor, smiling women look on from behind. Date: circa 1901

Soldier Escorting A Woman
An illustration which shows a French military soldier escorting an older lady by the arm, walking away, seen from behind. Date: circa 1901

Ottoman Sultan going to the mosque. Turkey. Engraving by Lemaitre, Lalaisse and Chaillot. Historia de Turquia by Joseph Marie Jouannin (1783-1844) and Jules Van Gaver, 1840

Turkey. Escort of a provincial governor Pasha. Engraving
Ottoman Empire. Turkey. Escort of a provincial governor Pasha (higher rank in the Ottoman political and military system). Engraving by Lemaitre, Lalaisse and Montaut

RAF Avro Anson reconnaissance plane escorting King George VI and Queen Elizabeth across the English Channel, 19 July 1938 Date: 1938

HMS Leviathan, Drake-class armoured cruiser
Royal Navy - HMS Hornet, an Acheron-class Destroyer that served during the First World War and was sold for breaking in 1921. She was the seventh Royal Navy ship to be named Hornet

WW2 - Orders by means of the Ardente Loud Hailer
Captain to Captain - The Commander of a Corvette at Sea giving orders by means of the Ardente " Loud Hailer, " which has a remarkable Acoustic Range 1941

WW2 - Destroyer escorting large convoy - Atlantic
WW2 - A Royal Navy Destroyer escorting a large convoy through the German counter-blockade - The Battle of the Atlantic. Date: 1941

Gentleman escorting country cousins on their first trip to London. Miseries of Social Life. Handcoloured copperplate engraving designed

Policemen escorting a suffragette 1912

WW2 - Nairana-class Escort Carrier - HMS Nairana. She was built at John Brown & Company shipyards in Clydebank, Scotland. When construction started in 1941 she was intended as a merchant ship

Stavanger, Norway - A family of ducks get a police escort
A Mummy duck and her family of baby ducklings receive a Police Escort as they stride confidently along the streets of Stavanger, Norway, gathering quite a crowd! circa 1930s

Police escorting a cart during Dundee riots, Scotland
Policemen escorting a cart to the docks during riots in Dundee, Scotland. Strikers trying to prevent the delivery of coal fought with the police and rioted: four constables were seriously injured

Escort for the Ambassador - Morocco
The Sultans troops escorting a European Ambassador - Morocco

French cartoon, German prisoners, WW1
First World War cartoon entitled German prisoners, showing French soldiers escorting German prisoners away from Colmar, a town on the border between France and Germany. Date: 1915

Two women police officers escorting woman, London
Two women police officers, one of them a sergeant, escorting a woman into a London police station. The notice board on the left displays a few Reward posters. Date: circa 1950s

General Strike 1926: Armoured car in London streets
Armoured car escorting food wagons through the busy streets of Oxford Circus to Hyde Park. Date: May 1926

Cartoon, He was phoning from the tobacco shop, WW1
Cartoon, He was phoning from the tobacco shop. A supposedly deaf and dumb man is caught on the telephone, arrested as a spy and escorted through the street, much to the delight of the children

Queen Mary visiting a field hospital, WW1
Queen Mary and others visiting a field hospital, WW1, escorted by a nurse. Date: 1914-1918

Scouts escorting earthquake victims, Greece
Scouts escorting earthquake victims to the mainland, Greece. Many earthquakes occurred in the Ionian area in August 1953, the worst one destroying many buildings in Kefalonia and Zakynthos

Escort carrier Archer by G. H. Davis
How the escort carrier Archer made her kill in the gap during the Second World War. The aircraft of the Archer, escorting an Atlantic convoy, sight and sink a German U-boat. Date: 1943

Short Sunderland I L2163 of 210 Squadron
Short Sunderland I, L2163, of 210 Squadron, escorting a troop convoy to the Middle East in 1941. Date: 1941

Egypt - British Soldier escorting an old blind Arab man
British Soldier escorting an old blind Arab man off a Nile Steamer, possibly at Port Said? Date: circa 1910s

Soldiers escorting carts during railway strike
Soldiers escorting delivery carts through London (in the Waterloo area) during the railway strike. 1911

Police escorting cart during Dock Strike, London
Police escorting a cart during the London Dock Strike. During the strike it was practically impossible for any transport to be moved without a police escort

German prisoners marching, Balkan Front, WW1
German prisoners under British escort, being marched to a railhead on the Balkan Front, at the time of the Battle of Machukovo during the First World War. Date: September 1916

Wounded soldier on muddy road, Macedonian Front, WW1
A wounded soldier is helped along a muddy road by two colleagues on the Macedonian Front during the First World War. Date: circa 1916-1917

British DH6 biplane escorting convoy of ships, WW1
A British DH6 biplane escorting a convoy of ships during the First World War. Date: 1917-1918

Fish - Pelorus Jack - New Zealand
Pelorus Jack - a Rissos dolphin that was famous for meeting and escorting ships through a stretch of water in Cook Strait, New Zealand, between 1888 and 1912

Tristram & Isolde
The love potion takes effect. While Tristram is escorting Iseult, King Marks bride, they take a potion intended for her wedding night & become lovers

Policewoman with evacuee children
A policewoman helping evacuee children find their train out of London during the Second World War

Romanian peasants revolt
The iron hand for the rebels: the Romanian governments prompt action in crushing the peasant revolt. Infantry escorting prisoners through Piatra, Neamtu

Algerian light cavalry escorting captured Germans
WWI, 1st World War, World War One, World War 1, The Great War

Complete Surrender by H. H. Harris
A post-WWI issue of The Bystander depicting a dashing monocled officer escorting a glamorous flapper girl dressed in yellow, furs and a red cloche hat

Tom Raw : Escort
Tom Raw, a young officer newly arrived in India, gets into difficulties when escorting a family

Hamilton-Holyrood Palace
The people of Edinburgh escorting the Duke of Hamilton to Holyrood Palace

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