WW1 KITCHENER RECRUITING
KITCHENER POSTER Recruitment poster featuring Kitchener : "You are the man I want"
WW1 POSTCARD SOLDIER
Tommy guards the flag with bayonet in hand and pipe in mouth!
XMAS PUDDING IN TRENCHES
Innovative British soldiers use a German steel helmet as a saucepan for their Christmas pudding.
WW1/CARRYING WOUNDED
A British soldier carries his wounded comrade to safety. An illustration from a 1910 publication, anticipating the horrors of World War I.
Goodbye Old Man - Soldier and horse
WOUNDED RED CROSS DOG
A French soldier salutes a war hero - a Red Cross dog wounded in action.
WORLD WAR ONE TRAINING
British soldiers on rifle practice. They are all wearing puttees (cloth wound round the lower part of the legs to support the ankles and to keep dirt out of their boots).
NAVAL CADETS HORNPIPE
Naval cadets learning the Hornpipe onboard the HMS Arethusa, the cadet training ship.
S DE MONTFORT/JACQUAND
SIMON DE MONTFORT Soldier and statesman
BOY HOME ON LEAVE
THERE'S A BOY COMING HOME ON LEAVE A soldier embraces his sweetheart as he arrives home.
WW1/C 1916/SHADOWS SKY
The shadows of soldiers are projected onto the night sky by flares and searchlights
ANCIENT GREEK SOLDIERS
Greek soldiers
ANCIENT GREEK SOLDIERS
Greek soldiers
WW1/POITIERS FIST AID
World War One : French soldiers receive first aid at Poitiers station, France
14TH CENTURY SOLDIER
A French soldier of the 100 Years War, carrying the 'oriflamme' or standard : his page holds his armoured horse
SOLDIERS 8-9TH CENTURY
A French count and two of his vassals on a military expedition
FRENCH SOLDIERS CA 1600
Two French soldiers of the time of Henri IV - an ARQUEBUSIER A PIED (foot arquebusier) and a CAPITAINE DE GENDARMES
BRITISH SAPPERS 1823
Sappers and Miners in uniform
BRITISH 19C SAPPERS 1825
Sappers and Miners in uniform and working dress
INJURED WW1 SOLDIER
A British soldier and his wife (or girlfriend) pose for the photographer, with the young man's lost leg stark evidence of the horrors of the conflict and the injuries suffered
