1915 Collection (page 3)

Italian Alpini climbing Monte Adamello
Italian Alpini troops forming a zig-zag line as they ascend Monte Adamello during their Alpine struggle against the Austrians in World War I

A British Charge at Hooge
Illustrations showing a charge by soldiers of the Liverpool and Scottish regiments to recapture a trench taken by the Germans who took it by using flame-projectors to spray fire

Panama Canal / East Chambr
One of several ships with this name, this battleship of the U.S.Navy will serve with the British fleet during World War One and also survive the 1946 Bikini atom bomb tests !

James Keir Hardie / Vanity
JAMES KEIR HARDIE British labour leader and politician, looking rather scruffy

Churchill / Horse / 1915
WINSTON CHURCHILL He resigns his parliamentary seat to return to the army during the early months of the First World War

Schoolgirls Knitting
A class of young German girls busy with their knitting, aided by fraulein : since the date is 1915, they are probably knitting socks for the soldiers at the front

Even the Moon Beams
An advertisement for Ford cars: " All the world loves a Ford - even the moon beams"

Italian Bersaglieri (light infantry)fighting the Austrians during World War One

Panama Canal - Gatun
The U.S.S. Arkansas passes through the Middle West Chamber of the Gatun Locks

Ww1 Cartoon / Punch 1915
Mr Punch and his faithful dog Toby have a go at the Kaiser monster, in a parody of St George and the Dragon

Lusitania Torpedoed
Lusitania torpedoed by a German submarine on her return journey from New York to Liverpool

Sailors rescued by fishing boat during First World War
Torpedoed sailors are rescued by a Brixham fishing boat, aptly named the Providence, during the First World War

Marconi Transmitter
Marconi transmitting apparatus

Waiting in Trenches Wwi
British troops, including a corporal, wait in trenches near Arras for the barrage to lift before moving on

A red cross working dog during WWI
A wounded German soldier is found by a Red Cross dog. Date: 1915

Entrance to Alder Hey Hospital, Liverpool
The entrance to Alder Hey Hospital, near Liverpool. Uniformed soldiers stand at the gate on the left. The hospital opened in 1915 to house chronic and bedridden patients from the West Derby Union

Southwark Military Hospital, Dulwich, South London
The entrance to Southwark Military Hospital which, during the First World War, was established in the St Saviours workhouse infirmary

Panama Canal / Pedro Migue
The United States Navy warship in a lock during her passage through the Panama Canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific (or vice versa)

Rupert Brooke
RUPERT BROOKE English writer, in 1913

Mississippi in Panama C
One of many ships bearing this name, this is a pre-world-war- one warship, photographed as she passes through the recently completed Panama Canal

St Petersburg / Palace
St Petersburg: the Winter Palace

Periscopes in Trenches
With shells bursting overhead and trench mortar ready, Seaforth Highlanders watch through a periscope for the Germans

Ww1 / 1915 / Scarboro Poster
REMEMBER SCARBOROUGH ! (Scarborough had been bombarded by the Germans earlier in the war)

A Concert behind the Lines by Fortunino Matania
Somewhere in France - a concert behind the lines. A concert troupe or divisional entertainment company often made up of a mix of professional and amateur actors

The Toast Is Britain
This painting is a portrayal of an incident at a banquet at which Nelson figures in company with the artist, Benjamin West. Date: circa 1915

Daily Chronicle, Never more confident of victory, WW1
Daily Chronicle, original news stand poster, " Never more confident of victory" -- Mr Asquith, 29 July 1915, First World War. 1915

Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Date: circa 1915

Short Rifle Diagram 1915
Multi-part diagram, showing the complex working systems of a short rifle, taking a Lee- Enfield Mark III magazine. Date: 1915

Mind The Step revue by Charles Baldwin and Harry Richardson
Promotional postcard for Mind The Step revue by Charles Baldwin and Harry Richardson. First produced at the Islington Empire, 10th May 1915

WW1 - Lords Cricket Ground used as a Goose Farm, 1915
Photograph showing the pitch of the Marylebone Cricket Ground (Lord s), during the grounds use as a farm for rearing geese in World War I

The Village & River, Coggeshall, Essex
The Village & River, Coggeshall, Colchester, Essex, England. River Blackwater Date: 1915

WW1 Recruitment Poster -- Whos Absent?
Whos Absent? - Is It You? Chromolithograph recruitment poster, published by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee. Printed by Andrew Reid and Company Limited, 50 Grey Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Gott Strafe England - German poster, WW1
A reproduction of a German poster from the First World War reproduced in The Tatler magazine and featuring the devil frying John Bull over the flames of hell under the familiar German slogan of Gott

Beaufort War Hospital, Fishponds, Bristol
Beaufort War Hospital at Blackberry Hill, Stapleton, Bristol - an area also known as Fishponds. The building was opened in 1861 as the Bristol Lunatic Asylum

Wayland Military Hospital, Attleborough, Norfolk. The hospital operated during the First World War in the Wayland Unions new workhouse infirmary, erected at Attleborough in 1912-13

Dog and owner reunited in the trenches, France
Private Brown of the North Staffordshires, in the trenches in France, is found by his pet terrier dog which has made its way, alone, from his home in Hammersmith, West London

WW1 - Catholic Mass in the Trenches at Bienvillers-aux-Bois
WW1 - French troops partake in Catholic Mass in the Trenches at Bienvillers-aux-Bois - August 1915. It was estimated that over 20, 000 priests served in the French army in some capacity

Landing at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, 1915
British troops landing at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli in August 1915 during the First World War Date: 1915

Robin in the trenches, WW1 by Philip Dadd
Sat on the End of my Bayonet like a bloomin Christmas Card, he did. Illustration depicting an incident described by a private soldier, writing home during the winter campaign of 1914-15

The NeedleWorker, WW1 knitting with Jessie Pope poem
Page from The Needle Worker from March 1915, advising readers on knitting for men and boys and featuring, The Knitting Song, a poem by Jessie Pope

WWI Poster, The Recruiting Sergeant
WWI Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster, The Recruiting Sergeant, shown beckoning for men to join him. Date: 1915

The Canadians at Ypres, 1915, depicting the Princess Patricias Canadian Light Infantry at Bellewaerde Ridge on 8th May 1915

A discussion on the Piltdown skull by John Cooke
Portrait group of well-known British scientists examining the Piltdown skull. This topical painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1915

Nicolas II and Kneeling troops - WWI
WWI - Emperor (Tsar) Nicholas (Nicolas) II of Russia holds up a sacred icon to his troops, who drop to their knees in penitence. Date: circa 1915

Arrival of troop train by Fortunino Matania
Back for Christmas holidays: arrival of a troop train in London by Fortunino Matania. Scene in Victoria train station a few minutes after the arrival of a troop train bringing back British soldiers

Poster, England Expects Every Man to do his Duty and Join the Army Today. Recruitment for the First World War. circa 1914-1915

Lord Kitchener reviewing Indian Troops - WWI
Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, (1850 - 1916), a British Field Marshal, diplomat and statesman, reviewing Indian troops - World War one era

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