Volunteers Collection (#8)

AFS volunteers undergoing hose drill, WW2
The Auxiliary Fire Service (AFS) was created in 1938 to supplement the regular London Fire Brigade. Some 21, 000 volunteer firefighters would be recruited

LCC-LFB AFS recruitment drive
A member of the Auxiliary Fire Service fronting an advertising campaign to seek additional volunteers for the service

Firewoman of the AFS, Jean Savory, WW2
Miss Jean Savory (1920-2000), firewoman, one of the first volunteers to join the AFS on the outbreak of WW2. She was attached to Red Cross Street fire station in the City of London

LFEE lithograph print of a firefighting scene
A manual pump is being worked by volunteers whilst firefighters from the LFEE direct their efforts and fight the fire. The LFEE was the forerunner of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, formed in 1866

General Strike 1926

The First Union dress parade in Nashville. The 51st Regiment

Officers of lst Rhode Island Volunteers - Camp Sprague, 1861. Ambrose Everett Burnside with eight officers posed in front of building, with sign reading Col. Burnside welcome home

Urgent - volunteers needed at once! Join up at any police station, any firehouse, or Room 201 City Hall, 16 South 15th Street

The General Strike, 1926: volunteers
Are we downhearted? The answer is Negative. A page from The Tatler, applauding the magnificent response which all classes of Society made to the Governments call for volunteers in the wake of

Col. Funston and 20th Kansas volunteers crossing the river at Calumpit, April 26th 1889

Elmira Cornet Band, Thirty-third Regiment, of the New York State Volunteers, July 1861. Group portrait of 16 men and boys posed with musical instruments. Drum reads: Elmira Cornet Band

Government House, Perth
The Government House at Perth, capital of Western Australia, pictured shortly after its completion. The building was designed by Lieutenant-Colonel Henderson of the Royal Engineers

Cinderella Dances
Programme ticket for the Queens Westminster and Volunteers Cinderella Dances Lottie Weber in 1890 Date: January 15th 1890

The Volunteers Ball at the Floral Hall, Covent Garden, Lond
Engraving showing the Volunteers Ball at the Floral Hall in Covent Garden, London, 1860. This image shows the Volunteers in their uniforms and their partners in formal evening dresses

WaCs
Womenss Army Auxiliary Corps cooking at a field-kitchen, 1933. Date: 1933

Albanian volunteers marching, Serbia, WW1
Albanian volunteers with a flag, marching along a road in Serbia on the eastern front during the First World War. Date: 1916

Field-Marshal Lord French inspecting volunteers, Hyde Park
Field-Marshal Lord French (1852-1925) inspecting some 10, 000 volunteers of numerous London regiments in Hyde Park, London, during the First World War

Kitcheners army recruits, Chatham, Kent, WW1
Kitcheners army recruits at the Royal Engineers Barracks in Chatham, Kent, during the First World War, with an ornamental stone gateway behind them. Date: 1914-1918

Lord Kitchener reviewing new army recruits, Basingstoke
Lord Herbert Kitchener (1850-1916) reviewing new recruits of the 10th Division at Basingstoke during the First World War. Kitchener was so greatly involved in the drive for volunteers at

British Army recruits taking the oath, WW1
Four young British Army recruits taking the oath, probably towards the beginning of the First World War. Date: circa 1914

Lincolnshire Regiment recruits at rifle drill, WW1
Lincolnshire Regiment recruits at rifle drill at the start of the First World War. Date: September 1914

Isle of Wight - Yarmouth Lifeboat Crew
Isle of Wight - The Yarmouth Lifeboat Crew. The large wheels of the trailers are fitted with boards, preventing the wheels from digging into the soft sand of the beach. Date: circa 1910s

Military / Rifle Volunteer
Rifle Volunteers Date: circa 1860

Some General Favourites, duing the General Strike
Believed to have come from Oxford, Cambridge and other " health resorts", London will not soon forget these cheery knights of the road

How they helped in Hyde Park and Whitehall during the strike
Typical volunteer workers in Hyde Park and Horse Guards, helping in the canteens and hanging out the washing

Volunteers during the General Strike
The Chiswick garage of the L.G.O.C. where the London volunteer bus-drivers and conductors slept during the strike

Volunteers working on the docks at Dover during the General
The Cambridge volunteers, the light blue brigade, attired in berets, pull-overs, flannel bags and voluminous plus-fours, worked efficiently as porters and dockers during the General Strike

The spirit of England at work: railway and dock volunteers
Volunteers on the railways during the General Strike. The ILN reports that Nothing was more remarkable during the General Strike than the skill and efficiency with which the railways were carried

A Fair Cop by George Ranstead
A humorous play on words as a female police officer leads away a naughty little boy. A cartoon illustration on a postcard by George Ranstead

Czech troops in the Urals 1918
Czech volunteer forces in the trenches before Kungur, in the Urals, during the Russian Civil War

Territorial Army poster
Poster promoting the comradeship to be found in the Territorial Army, depicting a group of soldiers sitting contentedly around a camp fire

Army Comforts Depot WWII
Women working in the Army Comforts Depot where gifts are packed and despatched to British troops during World War II

King George VI talking to wartime farm helpers
King George VI visiting schoolboys working as volunteers on farms in the Southern Counties during the war

Royal visit to Dunrobin Castle 1866
During their stay at Dunrobin Castle, Scotland, the Prince and Princess of Wales review the Sutherland volunteers in the castle grounds

Shkoder Ottoman army volunteers in traditional costume
Albanian volunteers for the Ottoman Empire army from Shkoder, Albania

Kitcheners Army 1915
Men of Kitcheners Army, the new volunteer recruits enlisted at the request of Kitchener during World War I in 1915

Home Guard Call up, World War I
Home Guard Call up, London, at the beginning of World War I in 1914

Ops Volunteers in Dublin
O.P.S Ulster Volunteers ride on horseback through the streets of Dublin during the Easter rising of April 1916

The General Strike - volunteers

Home Guard training against bombers
Training for the Home Guard at Osterley Park, in the suburbs of west London. Riflemen being trained to meet dive-bombing attacks by practising rapid fire against a diving model that represents a 50

Home Guard march to lecture
Members of the Home Guard on their way to a field in the grounds of Osterley Park, in the suburbs of west London, where lectures

Home Guard demonstration
During a Home Guard intensive training course at Osterley Park, in the west London suburbs, a car pulling a trailer, supposed to represent a tank

The Householders Share in the War
Billeting troops in an English village during World War One. As volunteers were trained, they needed to be housed and many home owners accommodated soldiers

The Civil Service Volunteers at Somerset House, London, 1864
Engraving showing the armed display of the Civil Service Volunteers, forming a square in the quadrangle of Somerset House, in front of the Prince of Wales, 1864

Germanys reply to Kitcheners army: Volunteers (Freiwillige) at drill for entry into the field in the spring

Blighted Blighty
The sad sufferings of a subaltern on leave who finds that everyone on the Home Front is obsessed with the war and with " doing their bit" including girlfriends who have become nurses

Volunteers at Tuileries
Departure of the volunteers who have been occupying the palais des Tuileries since the abdication of Louis-Philippe

Patriot Volunteers
Volunteers to join the insurgent army at Janow sail across the San river

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