Action Collection (page 19)

Naval Combat 1779
Naval action between the Quebec and the Surveillante Date: 1779

Austrians V Russians
On the frontiers of Galicia, Austrians fire on Russian reconnaissance flights - an early example of anti-aircraft defences in action ! Date: January 1913

William Hamilton
WILLIAM HAMILTON British military officer, doubtless seeing action against the Boers. Date: circa 1901

David Attacks Ammonites
Davids army goes into action against the Ammonites, just one of countless battles between the warring peoples of the Near East in biblical times Date: circa 1000 BC

India / Mutiny / Artillery
The British Horse Artillery in action Date: 1857

Girl Skips in Garden
A young girl plays with her skipping rope in her back garden. Date: 1950s

Cavalry in Action
FRENCH EXPEDITION General Mirandol leads the French cavalry against Aureliano, near Los Llanos Date: 1863

Emperor Carl V going into battle
The army of the emperor Carl V goes into action against Francois I of France Date: 1520

French artillery in action

WW1 soldier -- For Belgiums Sake -- Savoy Theatre programme, 6 November 1914. 1914

Icebreaker in Baltic Sea
Operations of icebreaking in the Baltic Sea have started again and our photo shows one of the icebreakers in action. Date: 24 January 1930

Ancient siege weapons in action -- the Corvus or Crow (top) and the battering ram (below). Date: circa 1800

Firefighters in action up a ladder, with smoke pouring out of a window. Date: circa 1960s

Russian soldiers in trench on eastern front, Russia, WW1
Russian soldiers in a shallow trench on the eastern front during the First World War -- a shell bursts nearby, and they duck down for cover. Date: circa 1917

Russian soldiers in action on the eastern front, Russia, WW1
Russian soldiers in action in " no mans land" on the eastern front during the First World War -- a shock battalion taking German trenches

Russian soldiers in action at the front, Russia, WW1
Russian soldiers in action at the front during the First World War. Date: circa 1917

Anti-aircraft gun ready for action, Russia, WW1
Soldiers with an anti-aircraft gun ready for action on the Eastern Front, Russia, First World War. Date: circa 1917

Fred Perry, British tennis player
Fred Perry (1909-1995), British tennis player, in action. Date: circa 1936

Firefighters in action at a fire in a merchants yard, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s

American football International Games, Turin, Italy
American football International University Games, Turin, Italy, 1-10 September 1933 -- two players in action. Date: 1933

Jousting tournament, St Erth, Cornwall
Jousting tournament taking place at St Erth, near Hayle, Cornwall. The two jousters have their helmets on, ready to charge. Date: circa 1970s

Town crier in action, Fowey, Cornwall
Town crier in action at Fowey, Cornwall. Date: circa 1970s

Victorian Scrap, fire brigade in action outside a burning building. circa 1880s

WW2 poster, steelworkers in action
WW2 poster (before lettering added), showing steelworkers in action in a factory. Date: circa 1940

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, a dog who attacked goats
Illustration by Cecil Aldin, an Irish wolfhound called Biddy who attacked goats, seen here in action. Date: 1927

The Left Wing of the British Army in action, at Waterloo
The Left Wing of the British Army in action, at the Battle of Waterloo - June 18th-1815.Coloured aquatint after William Heath, 1815; engraved by Thomas Sutherland, 1815; published by James Jenkins

British army in action at the Battle of Waterloo
The centre of the British army in action at the Battle of Waterloo, 18 Jun 1815.Aquatint by Sutherland after W Heath, published by J Jenkins, 1 Dec 1815.Vignette title - vol 1 engraved on it

Football game at Pratt, Kansas, USA, between Pratt and Stafford. The score was 9 to 17. The photographers shadow, with camera and tripod, can be seen on the ground. Date: circa 1910

View near Beeston, in the Cheshire Hunt area, with a hunt in progress. Date: 1936

Philo Gorse, in the Cheshire Hunt area
View of Philo Gorse, in the Cheshire Hunt area, with a hunt in progress. Date: 1936

Oxhill, in the Warwickshire Hunt area
View from Oxhill, in the Warwickshire Hunt area, with a fox in the foreground and the hunt in pursuit. Date: 1936

Hounds of the Grafton Hunt in action
Hounds of the Grafton Hunt (operating in Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire) in action. Date: 1936

Henry Havelock in action during first Afghan War
Henry Havelock in action against the forces of Akbar Khan during the first Afghan War. Date: 1842

Pytchley Hunt from Harrington, Northamptonshire
Pytchley Hunt in action, viewed from Harrington, Northamptonshire. Date: 1936

How Big Bill Answered the Call by H. M. Bateman, WW1
An American cowboy hears that the USA has entered the war and gallops off on his horse to enlist, encountering unbelievable obstacles on the way including killer eagles

Anthony Wilding in action at Wimbledon, 1914
Anthony Frederick Wilding (1883 - 1915), shown in action in the mens final at the 1914 Wimbledon tennis championship against Norman Brookes

Golfer watched by spectators. Date: circa 1920s

Title page of Great War Deeds, Illustrated London News
Title page of Great War Deeds, a special panorama supplement produced by the Illustrated London News in 1915, featuring heroic actions of the First World War. Date: 1915

WW1 - French success at Steinbach, 3rd January 1915
WW1 - An illustration representing the French reclaiming Alsace from German occupation. The illustration recreates the scene by using the well-known fairytale Sleeping Beauty, to represent the event

WW1 - Captain Hotblack guides tank into action
WW1 - Captain, Major and General Frederick Elliot Hotblack (18871979) was a British Army officer who fought in the First World War as an early member of the Tank Corps

WW1 - M1917 American tanks in action
WW1 - Two American M1917 tanks in action as they move towards, and plough through a forested terrain. Date: 1918

WW1 - The repulse of a Zeppelin raid in Poland
WW1 - The army on the ground are seen positioned by a slope running down a railway track. Soldiers on foot and on horses, aim their rifles attack the enemy above

WW1 - Commodore Bigsworth drops bombs on zeppelin, 1915
WW1 - Air Commodore Arthur Wellesley Bigsworth (1885-1961) was a pioneer aviator who had a distinguished military career in the service of the British armed forces

WW1 - Air Action - English SE5 and German Albatros D. Va
WW1 - A photograph capturing two aeroplanes in action from below viewpoint. The British biplane fighter aircraft S.E.5, (Scout Experimental 5)

WW1 - Air Battle - English SE5 and German LVG aircrafts
WW1 - A photograph from an aerial viewpoint of a British biplane fighter aircraft S.E.5 (Scout Experimental 5), and a German LVG (Luft-Verkhers-Gesellschaft), in air battle. Date: circa 1915

WW1 - Double-sized German biplane debut over Poelcappelle
WW1 - The new extra-sized German fighter biplane shown making its debut in the war. It was nicknamed Fritz by the British

WW1 - British and German aircraft in action, 1917
WW1 - The illustration captures a birdseye view of a vast landscape where British aeroplanes are in action, attacking German infantry

WW1 - French and German aerial battle, 1916
WW1 - French and German aeroplanes in an aerial battle. The French in quick-firing gun action using the built in machine gun at the nose of the battle-plane to attack their enemy

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