Rifles Collection (#8)

The Communication Trench
British soldiers dash past a gap in the sandbag wall of a communication trench, keeping their heads down so as not to attract the attention of snipers. Date: 1915

Soldiers in action on Western Front, WW1
Soldiers in action on the Western Front, firing their guns. Date: 1918

Robert Shaw Monument, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Robert Gould Shaw (1837-1863) Monument, Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Depicting Shaw as commander of the all-black 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment

My Magazine cover - British WW1 soldier
Front cover of the childrens title, My Magazine featuring a British infantry soldier marching in profile. 1918

Indian soldiers on the road to Jerusalem during World War I
Photographs of Indian soldiers under General Allenbys command on the road to Jerusalem during World War I. Clockwise from top-left

Sentry dog, WW1
A sentry dog, which went out with the British Expeditionary Force in 1914. It was killed on the Aisne. Date: 1914-18

WW1 messenger dogs - training them under rifle fire
Messenger dogs of the British Army undergoing training under rifle fire, to mimic conditions under which they would have to carry messages on the Western Front. Date: 1914-18

Trench Scene- Easier Said than Done
A shell if falling near a trench, while one soldier has hiccups, and is asking the soldier on the right " Say or doing something to startle me, Arry"

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

Aynsley China Model of a Pith Helmet - WWI
Aynsley China Model of a Pith Helmet, inscribed with the badge of the West London Rifles (4th Battalion Middlesex Regiment). Number 2, Registered Number 442812. Commemorative Ware

Carrying rations up the communication trench. On reverse of postcard - Carrying rations up the communication trench to the men in the firing line. The men alway(s) carry loaded rifles and ammunition

Base of a 1915 German 75mm shell case
The base of a 1915 German 75 mm. shell case made into a pocket watch holder. The base is engraved with a floral decoration

Officer of the Royal Irish Fusiliers. Photograph

Knocked out German trench mortar at chateau at Hangard
Knocked out German trench mortar at the gates of the ruined chateau at Hangard. Taken by 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles - August 17th 1918

Miniature - Officer of The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
Miniature oval portrait of an Officer of The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). English School

Two diggers playing frying-pans in front of their bell tents
Australia will be there. Two diggers playing frying-pans (as musical instruments) in front of their bell tents with a wonderful parade of Australian animals and birds carrying rifles and saluting

Trench maps belonging to Sergeant Ernest Blaikley
Trench maps belonging to 2903 Sergeant ERNEST BLAIKLEY, 28th Battalion London Regiment (Artists Rifles) (1885-1965). Attached S.O. & S

Sketch of HM Airship 9 in flight near Barrow-in-Furness, preparing to land before an approaching storm in 1916. This preliminary sketch was finally reproduced as an oil on canvas, 24 x 36

1914-1918 group of two soldiers of Outrams Rifles, 4th Battalion, 6th Rajputana Rifles. Stanley Nicholson Babb, Frbs (1874-1957)

Young soldier and friend seek to be alone
We don t want to lose you, but we think you ought to go. A young soldier and his lady friend at one end of a bench seeking to remove a gentleman reading a newspaper from the other end of the bench

The Bomber - A Highlander throwing a Mills bomb. Alexander Proudfoot, Rsa Frbs (1878-1957). During World War One, He Served As A Sergeant In The Artists Rifles And Invented A Protractor For The

Anzac Cove, Gallipoli, 1915, by Captain G Drummond-Fish (Royal Irish Rifles). Date: 1915

Anzac Bay, Troopships and Stores, Mudros in the distance, by Captain G Drummond-Fish (Royal Irish Rifles)

British troops respond to an attack in Burma, 1890. Date: 1890

Well-known personalities in the Artists Rifles, WW1
Three personalities of the stage and sport with the Artists Rifles, the well-known OTC. From left, Mr Horace Pollock, the impresario who introduced Sir Arthur Pineros work to the Variety stage

Mrs Baliol Scott teaching men how to shoot, WW1
Mrs Baliol Scott, the famous woman rifle shot, teaching boys how to shoot at the Byfleet Ladies Rifle Range of which she was a prominent member

Pushfulness at Plug Street by Bairnsfather
Pushfulness at Plug Street Colonel Ian Jelloid of the Blobshire Rifles being an energetic and businesslike man believes in advertising as an antidote to stagnant warfare A cartoon by Captain Bruce

Making Dummy Guns at Birmingham
For bayonet practice and other aspects of training, recruits to the new army during the First World War were supplied with dummy guns

Our Artist with the Artists
Members of the Artists Rifles with impressions of certain members of the corps by a fellow member (and magazine artist) Private J. H. Thorpe. Date: 1915

Enemy aeroplanes attack British steamer by G. H. Davis
Enemy aeroplanes attacking a British steamer. Bombs and bullets from above -- the Avocet attacked by three German planes during the First World War

A Poet in Khaki - Edmund John
Private Edmund John (1883-1917), poet and soldier in the Artists Rifles during World War One. Photograph featured in The Bystander at the time his new book of poems

British soldiers salvaging near Bapaume, WW1
British soldiers salvaging materials on a battlefield near Bapaume, France, on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Mascot of the Kings Royal Rifles, Western Front, WW1
A soldier with a pony in a field, the mascot of the Kings Royal Rifles, on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Men of a Warwickshire regiment, Western Front, WW1
Men of a Warwickshire regiment lying at the edge of a field with their rifles ready, on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Clearing up a battlefield after an advance, WW1
Clearing up a battlefield after an advance during World War One. Rifles are stacked into neat pyramid shapes. Date: circa 1916

Naval manoeuvres at Grimsby Docks by G. H. Davis
The naval manoeuvres of 1913 -- the raid of the Reds upon Grimsby Docks. As described by the artist who was there to witness it

Japanese infantry eat rice
Japanese infantry take a break to eat their rice ration. The rifles are the Arisaka type 38 Date: 1937-1945

German Red Cross soldiers in Berlin, WW1
German Red Cross soldiers marching along a Berlin street in the early stages of the First World War. Date: September 1914

Repulsing a frontal attack, WWI by Cyrus Cuneo
British soldiers, armed with rifles and bayonets, scrambling over the top during an enemy attack. Date: 1916

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

German infantry in Brussels, WW1
German infantry making their way into Brussels at the start of the First World War. Date: 1914

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

Scots guards at the Siege of Sidney Street
Scots guards on the Streets of London during the Siege of Sidney Street in 1911. Date: 1911

Edward, Prince of Wales, visiting Western Front, WW1
Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) inspecting a battalion on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

British troops resting and cleaning weapons, WW1
British troops resting and cleaning their weapons on their way back from the line on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

German soldiers advancing through cornfield, WW1
German soldiers advancing through a cornfield with bayoneted rifles during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Three Battenberg princes serving Britain, WW1
Three Battenberg princes serving their adopted country, Great Britain, during the First World War. They are HSH Prince Louis of Battenberg (left), First Sea Lord of the British navy

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