1917 Collection (page 3)

Anastasia Bitsenko going to Brest-Litovsk peace meeting
Anastasia Bitsenko (also spelt Biecenko and Bizenko) in a motor car on the way to the peace negotiations which led to the signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk on 3rd March 1918 between the Central

Alexander Kerensky, Russian leader, taking the salute
Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky (1881-1970), Russian political leader before and during the Russian Revolutions of 1917. Seen here (left) in uniform, taking the salute. Date: 1917

Tunisian woman with elaborate coin necklace
Tunisian woman with elaborate necklace made of many strings of coins with holes in the middle, metal bangles, thin silken clothing and a pointed hat

Duchess of Connaught on her wedding day
Princess Luise Margarete of Prussia, Duchess of Connaught (1860-1917) on her wedding day, 13 March 1879 to Prince Arthur, third son of Queen Victoria

Air Raid Shelter Poster
Metropolitan Police poster with information on air raid shelters in Brentford, London, during World War I

Ranavalona Iii / Ils 1896
RANAVALONA III in 1897, at the close of her reign, when she had been dethroned by the French and was on her way to exile on the island of Reunion

Seven Days Leave, Lyceum Theatre, Strand, London
Seven Days Leave, a new play by Walter Howard, at the Lyceum Theatre, Strand, London. With Alfred Paumier as Captain Fielding, Annie Saker as Lady Mary, and Leslie Carter as Colonel Sharrow

Enfin Seul (Alone at Last) by Cecil Aldin
Newlywed rabbits sit together, alone at last, following their wedding. A bouquet and top hat are laid aside and a sack labelled Mr and Mrs Bunny stands nearby

John Masefield, English poet and writer
John Masefield (1878-1967), English poet and writer, seen here in uniform during the First World War. He was Poet Laureate from 1930 to 1967. 1917

Tsar Nicolas and son during Revolution, Russia
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (1868-1918), and his son, Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia (1904-1918), seen here in uniform after the Tsar had abdicated. Date: circa 1917

SPAD XIII with Le Prieur rockets attached for anti-balloon or anti-airship use. Extremely popular with French and American forces, over eight thousand were built by the time of the Armistice

Nieuport 17s of the French N124 Escadrille Lafayette
Four Nieuport 17s of the French N124 Escadrille Lafayette, formed of French commanded American volunteer pilots. The squadron was formed in April 1916

Nieuport 11 Bebe, used by the Italian air force, built under licence in Italy by Nieuport-Macchi. Seen here is serial no. Ni 3227. Date: circa 1916-1917

Fokker Dr I with Pfalz D III in background
Fokker Dr I German fighter triplane with a Pfalz D III in the background. The Fokkers pilot prepares for takeoff, with a mechanic ready to swing the propeller and two more in attendance

Summerside Street, Leith, Midlothian
Summerside Street, Leith, Edinburgh, near Newhaven, Midlothian, Scotland. Date: 1917

Woman sewing
Woman sitting down sewing. Date: 1917

Surrey Yeomanry on Struma Valley Front, Salonika, WW1
The Surrey Yeomanry on the Struma Valley Front, Salonika 1917-1918. Breaking cover - A Squadron raid on Jenimah. By Frank Algernon Stewart (1877-1945). 1917-1918

A brush with the Bulgar - Scouts discover enemy, WW1
The Surrey Yeomanry on the Struma Valley Front, Salonika 1917-1918. A brush with the Bulgar - Scouts discover enemy at entrance to Jenimah. By Frank Algernon Stewart (1877-1945). 1917-1918

Going into action, The Barraged Road on Blaga Planina
The Surrey Yeomanry on the Struma Valley Front, Salonika 1917-1918. Going into action, The Barraged Road on the Blaga Planina. By Frank Algernon Stewart (1877-1945). 1917-1918

Zena Dare as a nurse, WW1
Mrs Maurice Brett, formerly the theatre and music hall star, Zena Dare pictured in her uniform as a nurse working in France during the First World War. She married the Hon

Good Egg by William Heath Robinson
Straight from the Hen! The Fresh-Egger, a handsome apparatus for ensuring the new-laidness of eggs for the breakfast-table. A typically convoluted invention from the mind of William Heath Robinson

Canadian gunners, Battle of Vimy Ridge, France, WW1
Canadian gunners firing a 6 inch Howitzer during the Battle of Vimy Ridge, northern France, during the First World War. Date: April 1917

Sopwith Pup N6444 aboard HMS Manxman in 1917
Sopwith Pup, N6444, aboard HMS Manxman in 1917. Date: 1917

Kaiser Wilhelm II in Turkish uniform and fez, WW1
Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941), German Emperor, seen here in Constantinople wearing Turkish style uniform, including a fez, during the First World War. Date: circa 1917

German machine gun WWI
Machine gun post in a front line trench during the withdrawal to the Siegfried line on the Western Front during World War I Date: February 1917

View of Fampoux, First Battle of the Scarpe, April 9th 1917

WW1 poster, Join the Navy, the Service for Fighting Men. Date: circa 1917

Sopwith Camel F-1
German Soldier Holding the Tail of Captured 3 Sqn Royal Flying Corps Rfc Sopwith Camel F-1 Date: 1917

Cartoon, Charles I and the chamberlain, WW1
Cartoon, Charles I and the chamberlain. Charles I of Austria (Karl Franz Joseph Ludwig Hubert Georg Otto Marie, 1887-1922), who succeeded Emperor Franz Joseph in 1916, seen here on his throne

Political parades clash in a Russian street
Two rival political parades clash in a Russian street during the Revolutionary period, resulting in many casualties. Date: circa 1917

Viola Tree (17 July 1884 15 November 1938) English actress, singer, playwright and author. Daughter of the actor Herbert Beerbohm Tree

Vickers R 23 British airship, one of four built at Barrow-in-Furness. It required a 17-man crew, first flew in September 1917

William George Barker, RFC pilot and air ace
William George Billy Barker (1894-1930), Canadian member of No. 9 Squadron, RFC, seen here wearing a fur coat, standing by his Sopwith Camel. His confirmed victories totalled 50

Albatros C IX used by Manfred von Richthofen
Albatros C IX prototype German biplane used by Manfred von Richthofen for personal transport. Date: circa 1917

Airco DH 4 two-seater light bomber, first flown in mid-August 1916, and used by the RFC and the RNAS. Seen here is serial no. A 7845, a reconnaissance fighter version. Date: circa 1916-1918

Ella Shields, WW1 entertainment
Ella Shields (1879-1952) music hall entertainer and male impersonator, most famous as Burlington Bertie from Bow dressed up as both a soldier and a sailor during the First World War. Date: 1917

Major-General Sir Eric Geddes
Sir Eric Campbell-Geddes GCB, GBE, PC (26 September 1875 22 June 1937), British businessman and Conservative politician. He served as First Lord of the Admiralty between 1917 and 1919

Lieutenant and Mrs Vernon Castle, dancers
Vernon Blythe Castle (1887-1918), and American wife, Irene (nee Foote), ballroom dancers, performers and dance teachers, pictured in 1917 when he was serving in the British Army in the Royal Flying

Lady Curzon of Kedleston and her children, 1917
Tatler front cover featuring Mrs Alfred Duggan, born Grace Elvina Hinds (1879-1958daughter of Mr. Monroe Hinds, the second wife of George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron Curzon of Kedleston)

The Farce by William Barribal
A young red-headed woman seated in a box at the theatre, feigns interest in what her older male companion has to say while secretly enjoying a kiss on the hand from a young, handsome beau. Date: 1917

British troops in a trench, Salonika Front, WW1
British troops in a trench in the hills on the Salonika Front during the First World War. Date: circa 1916-1917

British rigid airship No. 9 in flight, WW1
British rigid airship No. 9 (also known as 9r) during the First World War, the first British rigid airship to be completed by Vickers

HMS Shakespeare, British destroyer at sea, WW1
HMS Shakespeare, British Thornycroft-type destroyer leader, launched 1917, badly damaged by a mine towards the end of the First World War, decommissioned 1936. Date: 1917-1918

Aerial photograph of ruined suburbs, Arras, France, WW1
Aerial photograph (Canadian) of the ruined suburbs of Arras in northern France, taken from a kite balloon during the First World War. Date: November 1917

Reading War Hospital, Reading, Berkshire
During the First World War, the Reading Union workhouse (opened 1867) on Oxford Road, Reading, Berkshire, was used as a military hospital

British cavalry 1917
British cavalry standing in water on horses in a ruined town in France on the British front during World War I in 1917

Russian Refugee Camp at Mudros, Greece (Island of Lemnos), housing Russians driven out by the Bolsheviks following the 1917 revolution

Sunbeam motor car advertisement
A colour advertisement for Sunbeam car and aircraft engines. A sunbeam car can be seen in the foreground with an aeroplane flying overhead

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