1914 Collection (page 6)

RHYL - 1914
East Parade, Rhyl, Denbighshire

Frank Wild (1873-1939)
Photographic portrait of Frank Wild, the British naval officer and explorer, London, c.1916. Wild had just returned to Britain following his role as second in command during Ernest Shackletons

Lord Roberts 1900
FREDERICK SLEIGH 1st EARL ROBERTS British soldier riding his arab charger, Volonel, which he rode to Kandahar in 1879 during the Afghan conflict

Jean Jaures
JEAN-JOSEPH-MARIE-AUGUSTE JAURES French socialist statesman, founded and edited L Humanite opposing militarism, assassinated

Suffragettes Arrested
Suffragettes being arrested near Buckingham Palace

Torpedoed Ship in Port
A torpedoed passenger steamship is assisted into port by tugs

Torpedoed Ship in Dock
A steamship - torpedoed by the Germans although flying the neutral Norwegian flag - is brought into dry dock for repairs

Lord Roberts Full Rig
FREDERICK SLEIGH, first lord ROBERTS military commander, in full dress uniform as befits a leader of the Empire

Pope Pius X Blessing
POPE PIUS X (Giuseppe Sarto) pope and saint receiving pilgrims from Lombardy at the Vatican

The Grim Reaper
Death personified as The Grim Reaper

Wwi / Russians / Caucasus
Russians skirmish with Turkish forces in the Caucasus mountains

Fashionable couples dancing energetically at a ball, 1914
Fashionable couples dancing energetically at a ball, observed by an older woman with lorgnette. La Folie du Jour. Handcoloured pochoir (stencil) etching by H

Miles Cycle Shop, Sharpness, Gloucestershire. 1914

The Dream Pedlar - When she laughed, the wind laughed
When she laughed the wind laughed too - illustration in The Dream Pedlar by Lady Margaret Sackville. Florence Mary Anderson / Molly MacArthur (1893-1972) had two distinct styles of illustration

Sir Samuel Evans at Prize Court, London, WW1
Sir Samuel Evans, in September 1914, presiding over the first Prize Court held at the London Law Courts since 1856. 1914

LUNCH AT CLARIDGES 1914
Lunch at Claridges Hotel, London Date: 1914

Verona, Italy - Piazza Erbe and Palazzo Maffei. Date: 1914

Jos Chamberlain Monocle
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN Statesman, depicted by Renouard in characteristic pose with his trademark monocle. Date: 1836 - 1914

Belgian Refugees, 1914
Belgian refugees flee from their desolate homes after the advance of the German army. Date: 1914

Chic Vs False Chic 1914
True chic - elegant young woman wears the latest fashion to good advantage: hobble skirt & long belted fur trimmed jacket, the skirts of which create a tunic & a fur muff. Date: 1914

Nurse in British Red Cross uniform
The British Red Cross regulation uniform for trained nurses. Date: 1914

Tango Dress Trailing
If shes not careful, she is going to get her feet caught up in that trailing dress of hers... Date: 1914

Berkleley Hotel Dinner
Dinner at the Berkeley Hotel, London, on a Sunday evening Date: 1914

Parisienne models wearing fashionable feathered hats 1914
Fashionable parisienne models wearing the latest hats with feathers. Date: 1914

Parisienne models wearing headdresses 1914
Fashionable parisienne models wearing the latest headwear and hair. Date: 1914

Raffles by E W Hornung & Augene Presbrey
Promotional postcard for Raffles the Amateur Cracksman by E. W. Hornung and Eugene Presbrey. First produced at the Comedy Theatre, 12th May 1906

Belgian Refuge, Millfield House, Edmonton
A view of the home for Belgian Refugees set up in 1914 at Millfield House, Edmonton. Date: circa 1914

World War I spy drawing
What appears to be an innocent landscape drawing is in fact a plan of a harbour and its forts. The sketch has been made in accordance with a secret pictorial code known to the government in whose

Mongrel puppy tempted by his masters shoes. Date: 1914

Church, Studland, Dorset
Church, Studland, Swanage, near Harmans Cross, Dorset, England. Date: 1914

WW1 - Territorials Blessed at St. Pancras Church, London
WW1 - London Territorials are blessed as they pass St. Pancras Church, London, where they deposited their colours Date: 1914

John Masefield (1878 - 1917), English poet, playwriter and fiction writer. Date: 1914

London Territorial regiments at the start of WWI
Just before the British Army was mobilised following the outbreak of World War I, a number of London Territorial regiments were on their war to camp for their annual training when they were ordered

Recruiting on the beach at Southsea, WW1
A call to arms. A very persuasive pair of recruiting sergeants, Beattie and Babs, on the beach at Southsea. The pair later appeared on stage at the Southend Hippodrome to continue their campaign

School Sentry 1914
A member of the Artists Rifles (Territorial Army Regiment) on sentry duty at the entrance to Lancing Street L.C.C. School at Kings Cross, London, in the first week of war. Date: 5 August 1914

Rudyard Kipling by Tom Hutt
Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936), British writer and poet, pictured in caricature by Tom Hutt, smoking a pipe and holding a copy of Many Inventions. Date: 1914

Winston Churchill by Tom Hutt
Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), British statesman, pictured at the time he held the post of First Lord of the Admiralty. Date: 1914

Commander Samson with other British airmen, WW1
Air Commodore Charles Rumney Samson CMG, DSO & Bar, AFC (8 July 1883 5 February 1931), British naval aviation pioneer. He was one of the first four officers selected for pilot training by the Royal

Gaby Deslys, 1914
French actress and music hall artiste, Gaby Deslys pictured in rather glamorous caricature. At the time, she was appearing in the revue, The Passing Show, at the Palace Theatre, London. 1914

Admiral von Ingenohl (1857 - 1933)
Friedrich von Ingenohl, Commander-in-Chief of the German High Seas Fleet at the outbreak of war in 1914. After overseeing unsuccesful actions against the Royal Navy at Heligoland Blight

Brighton Station, train to London
The Monday Morning Train to Town -- scene on the platform of Brighton Station, any week during the summer months, with men leaving for work in London while their wives and girlfriends stay behind

London pre-war tension
In Whitehall, London, police protect a man trying to distribute peace pamphlets to the crowd which had gathered on the Bank Holiday Monday

Advert for John Pound & Co cases 1913
Advertisement John Pound & Co dressing cases. John Pound became Lord Mayor of London in 1904. With less time to run his business, he gave contol of the company to his two sons

Albert De Mun Photo
Comte ALBERT DE MUN French statesman and philanthropist, in 1910. Date: 1841 - 1914

William Rowland Ding (1885-1917 )
William Rowland Ding, 1885-1917, chief test pilot for Blackburn Aircraft. He is shown here sitting in the cockpit of a modified Handley Page G in 1914. Date: 1917

On ne passe pas. 1914... 1918. Par deux fois j ai tenu et vaincu sur la Marne. A soldier standing on a battlefield wearing gas mask around his neck. Poison gas was first used in World War I

Bennet Burleigh(c.1840-1914), war correspondent for The Daily Telegraph

Aquitania Illustration
Cunard White Star Liner. 901 feet long, 45, 647 tons. Scrapped in 1950

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