Guns Collection (#32)

Boues 1918
6 inch Howitzers in action in the open near Boues on the Western Front in France during World War I in April 1918

German Field Gun Battery 1918
German Field Gun battery in action in the open during the Offensive of 1918 on the Western Front during World War I

Howitzer battery 1917
An 8 inch Mark V Howitzer battery (135th Siege Battery of the Royal Garrison Artillery) in action near Henin-sur-Cojeul during the Battle of Vimy Ridge on the Western Front in France during World War

Pilkem 1917
6 inch Howitzer gun ready for firing at Pilkem on the Western Front in France during World War I in August 1917

Howitzer 1918
A Canadian 8 inch Howitzer in a camouflaged gun position in action in Thelus on the Western Front in France during World War I in January 1918

Howitzer 1918
A 12 inch Howitzer gun firing at Louez on the Western Front in France during World War I in May 1918

British artillery 1918
A 6 inch 26 cwt Howitzer at recoil after firing near Achivourt on the Western Front in France during World War I in May 1918

Lewis gunners 1918
British Lewis gunners of the 12th Royal Scots wearing box respirators in action in a front line trench during a gas attack on the Western Front in France during World War I in June 1918

Moulain 1918
British 18 pounder gun batteries in action at Moulain on the Western Front in France during World War I in October 1918

Battle of the Canal du Nord 1918
A British 60 pounder gun firing in the barrage at dawn (zero was at 5.20am). Field batteries are moving forward on the right

Battle of Arras 1917
Battery of 60 pounders firing in the open at Feuchy Chapel, which is 3.75 miles from Arras and was the limit of the first days advance on the Western Front in France during World War I in April 1917

Howitzer 1917
12 inch Howitzer gun and ammunition under camouflage netting at the Battle of Arras on the Western Front in France during World War I in April 1917

Howitzers in action 1917
British Howitzer guns in action at the Battle of Arras offensive on the Western Front in France during World War I in April 1917

First Vickers Maxim gun, 1915
The first Vickers-Maxim machine gun, being fired from the breastwork at Rue de Bois by a soldier of the 2nd Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders from 19th Brigade on the Western Front in France during

60 pounder 1915
A 60 pounder gun of the 6th Division Artillery covering the 2nd Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 19th Brigade, 6th and 27th Divisions in the Bois Grenier Sector on the Western Front in France

Gun inspection 1915
6th Siege Battery, 6 inch BL 30 cwt howitzer gun being examined by Inspector of Munitions, Major Browne, after No. 3 gun had burst on the Western Front in France during World War I on 17th March 1915

World War I 1915
Damage inflicted on the Cameronians at Neuve Chapelle by the German guns on the Western Front in France during World War I on 10th March 1915

British troops in France 1915
Soldiers getting ready to fire a 60 pounder gun in the Bois Grenier sector on the Western Front in France during World War I on 12th January 1915

Battle of Hazebrouck 1918
18 pounder battery in action in the open near Meteren. Soldiers loading the gun at the Battle of Hazebrouck on the Western Front in Belgium during World War I on 13th April 1918

Vickers Machine Gun
Soldiers filling the water jacket on a Vickers Machine Gun on the Western Front in Belgium during World War I in 1917

Battle of Poelcappelle
Man-handling an 18 pounder gun out of the mud. The horse team that pulls it is standing nearby. Near Langemarck on the Western Front in Belgium on 16th October 1917

Soldiers in Pilkem
British soldiers with a captured 5.9 gun knocked out by allied artillery in Pilkem, Western Front, Belgium during World War I in 1917

Howitzer in the mud
6 inch 26 cwt Howitzer gun being manhandled through the mud near Pozieres during World War I in September 1918

A country shooting party in Austria
A picnic during a country shooting party in Austria. The men sit in the foreground amid the baskets of food, guns and dog

Guards take aim in Sidney Street, East London
Members of the First Battalion Scots Guards lying in the roadway, taking aim during the Sidney Street Siege (popularly known as the Battle of Stepney) in East London

Hindenburg naval inspection, Kiel, Germany
President Paul von Hindenburg at a naval inspection in Kiel. Just behind him is Admiral Erich Raeder, Chief of the Kiel Station, and further back is Admiral Hans Zenker, Chief of the Fleet

Landing artillery on the Gallipoli Peninsula
A 155-MM. gun being towed ashore on a lighter at Seddul Bahr on the Gallipoli Peninsula. The photograph is of particular interest as showing a method of landing heavy guns

Izmir (Smyrna) - Albanian Tribal Chiefs
Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey - Albanian Tribal Chiefs

Stanley at Usukuma
Explorer Stanley comes into conflict with natives at Usukuma, Africa(today Tanzania)on the Emin Pasha relief expedition

Aid to Russia fails to help
Despite these wonderful crutches that my Samaritan friends have given me, I still can t make any progress. Satirical comment on American

North Vietnam 1972
A group of North Vietnamese soldiers hold their rifles aloft as if in celebration of victory. *UNAVAILABLE FOR USE IN ASIA AT PRESENT*

Colombian Artillery - Bogota
Colombian horse-drawn Artillery - Bogota, Colombia

A French Battery in action near Sedd-el-Bahr
This picture shows one of the guns of a French battery in action in the Gallipoli Peninsula. Throughout thr memorable landing opertaions the French troops rendered valuable assistance to the British

French machine-gunners 1916
French machine-gunners, Aisne, on the French front during World War I in 1916

French machine-gunner 1916
French machine-gunner of the 10th Army with a CSRG Chauchat machine gun in the Somme area on the French front during World War I in August 1916

Pathan Tribesmen - North West Frontier Province. On the reverse of this postcard, a British officer has written " These are the hillmen we have to contend with"

Musket instruction, World War I
Muskeet instruction at the Wandsworth Home Defence Battalion during World War I on 30th November 1914

Senegal - West Africa - Tam Tam Malinke - Dancers
The Dance of the Riflemen at Tam Tam Malinke, Senegal

Naval Steamship - Charles Robinson
One of the Men-O -War that " guard our shores"

HMS Nelson - British Naval Battleship
H.M.S. Nelson - at the time (when built in 1927) Britains most powerful Battleship. Scrapped in 1949

British X1 Submarine
The British Submarine HM X1 Commisioned in 1925 and scrapped at Pembroke in 1935

Bardo Palace, Tunis, Tunisia
The Bardo Palace, Tunis, Tunisia - the entrance to the Barracks (with a wide range of military equipment illustrated in relief above the archway)

British Front in France, 1918
Battery of 75mm guns in action at Longpont (Aisne) on the Western Front in France during World War I on 18th July 1918

British machine gun post 1918
British machine gun post at night traversing the German communications trenches at Cambrai on the Western Front in France during World War I in January 1918

A play at the Theatre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, Paris
The Crocodile, a play by Michel Sardou, is performed at the Theatre de la Porte-Saint-Martin in Paris. The scene shows the moment when Lieutenant Lotus discovers Richard Kolt

Proclamation of the new Constitution - Salonica
The proclamation of the new Constitution - Salonica (now part of Greece), on 24th July 1908 - revolutionary military group from Resna, South West Macedonia under the commmand of Melek Bey

Christmas in the home of a peace crank
A man rather disdainfully labelled as a peace crank watches in dismay as his children play aggressively with a variety of war-inspired toys during World War One

The Ashanti War (1873-74) - Storming a village
Lord Gifford and advance scouts. using guns, storm a village during their advance on the Ashanti. The second Ashanti War fought between, 1873-74, was between King Kofi Karikari

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