Action Collection (page 9)

19th century / 1900 vintage photograph - gun room officers of HMS Centurion
19th century/1900 vintage photograph - gun room officers of HMS Centurion, British battleship which was action during the boxer Rebellion in China

Field Marshal Sir Charles York, British Army officer
Vintage 19th century photograph: Field Marshal Sir Charles Yorke GCB was a senior British Army officer. He fought in many of the battles of the Peninsular War and of the Hundred Days

WW1 poster, A Call to Action! to all employees
WW1 poster, A Call to Action! from Woodrow Wilson to all industrial employees working on government contracts, issued by the Navy Department. Date: circa 1917

Polar bear takes a dive at London Zoo
Polar bears movement frozen as it dives into pool at London Zoo. Date: circa 1930s

Newspaper, L Action Francaise - to understand events Date: 1938

Comic postcard, offer from a photographer Date: 20th century

Coal Strike in Stoke-on-Trent 1920
Pit boys from Stoke-on-Trent with a chalked declaration

Black country strikers: miners at the pit bank, Stoke-on-Trent, coming up in the cage for the last time. Date: October 1920

World War II WW2 - artillery gun in action
World War II WW2 - British artillery gun in action

Photogravure, Donald Mennie, The Grandeur of the Gorges
Photogravure from a photograph by Donald Mennie, from his book The Grandeur of the Gorges, published in China in 1926. He took the pictures during two trips on the upper Yangtze River in China

World War II Royal Navy last action against Germany
World War II vintage photograph - Royal Navy last offensive action against Germany - U boat depot at Kilbot, Narvik, Norway

World War II silhouette of RAF Liberator bomber Burma
World War II vintage photograph - silhouette of RAF Liberator bomber in action over Burma

World War II US marines swim and wash, Japan 1945
World War II vintage photograph - US marines swim and wash in a bomb hole Okinawa, war against Japan, 1945

World War II Berlin action against black market 1945
Vintage World War II photograph - German police question a woman in the Reichstag Gardens Berlin in an action against black marketeers. August 1945

Representation of Charity - Money for a poor crippled boy
A moral postcard depicting Charity as two smartly-dressed young girls offer some coins to a poor, crippled young boy with crutches, sat at the side of the street. Date: 1909

Canadian 15th Battalion 48th Highlanders, 3rd Bde Memorial
This commemorates the Battle of Mount Sorrel, Observatory Ridge, and has a bas relief map of the action of 2 June 1916. It was unveiled on 22 October 2011. Date: 2016

Death of Major Peirson at St Helier, Jersey (British defence against French invasion). 1781

Cartoon, Sun bathing with rapid action globes. 1923

Queen Street Railway Station, Glasgow, during a strike 1891
A crowded scene at Queen Street Railway Station, Glasgow, during the strike of 1891. Date: 1891

Wilf Mannion. English professional footballer
Wilf Mannion (1918-2000), English professional footballer with Middlesbrough, Hull City, Cambridge United, Poole Town, Earlestown, and the national England team

Len Shackleton, English footballer
Leonard Francis (Len) Shackleton (1922-2000), footballer with Newcastle United and Sunderland, also the England national team, seen here in December 1946. 1946

Hapgood and Roberts of Arsenal, Dixie Dean of Everton
Eddie Hapgood and Herbie Roberts of Arsenal, Dixie Dean of Everton heading, in a football match action shot. circa 1930s

Dixie Dean, Everton and England international footballer
William Ralph (Dixie) Dean (1907-1980), Everton and England international footballer. mid-20th century

Mulberry Harbour anchor Asnelles, Gold Beach
In the foreground is a board carrying a description of the action here at Asnelles on D-Day, where the Essex and Sherwood Yeomanry came ashore

Leon Achard as Larifla in La Morale en Action, 1845
Leon Achard as Larifla in La Morale en Action by Jaime and Villeneuve, Theatre du Gymnase Dramatique, 1845. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by Alexandre Lacauchie from Victor Dollets

Hydraulics systems including floating, hydromancy
Hydraulics systems including floating action 1, 2, hydromancy or water divination 3, 4, and Archimedes solution to the problem of Hieros crown 5

Inside a cabinet piano, Broadwood piano factory, London 1842
The action or internal mechanism of a cabinet pianoforte, Broadwood piano factory, Horseferry Road, Westminster, London. 1842

Piano keys and action, Broadwood piano factory, London 1842
Square pianoforte keys and treble action, at the Broadwood piano factory, Horseferry Road, Westminster, London. 1842

Boys playing American football. Date: circa 1970s

Hell on Wheels US 2nd Armoured Division
The Division landed on Omaha Beach on 9 June 1944 and went into action on the 11th. It earned its nickname in the fighting for Carentan

Storming the Mole at Zeebrugge from HMS Vindictive, WW1
Storming the Mole at Zeebrugge, Belgium, from HMS Vindictive, 23 April 1918, First World War. Known as the Zeebrugge Raid, it was an attempt by the British navy to block the port. 1918

Earl of Cardigan leading Light Cavalry at Balaclava
Earl of Cardigan leading the Light Cavalry in the last charge at Balaclava, Crimean War. 1855

(insert) Date: 1920

James Braid at the Tooting Tournament
Golfer James Braid in action at the Tooting Tournament. 1901

James Braid at Sundridge Park
James Braid in action at Sundridge Park. 1941

Trials at the Law Courts -- two barristers in action. Date: 1892

James Braid in Golf of the Week
Golfer James Braid captured in driving pose in the tournament at Stoke Poges, as part of the Golf of the Week feature by A C Croome Date: 1911

James Braid in action at the Open Championships
Black and white photo of golfer James Braid in action at the Open Championships, in Henry Cotton on Golf. Date: 20th February 1942

James Braid - a most typical picture
Celebrated golfer James Braid in typical swing action pose 1933

Grand Professional Competition
Golfer James Braid, who was a probable contestant for the Sphere and Tatler cup which was being played at his home club, Walton Heath. Date: 1911

Full-iron shot - golfer James Braid in action
Golfer James Braid in action 1920

The Lance under fire at the port of Tampico
The ship the Lance under fire by Mexican artillery in the port of Tampico. A ship leans heavily as artillery from the shore bombard it

Tom Johnson and Isaac Perrins, boxing at Banbury

Daniel Mendoza and Richard Humphries in boxing match
Daniel Mendoza and Richard Humphries in a boxing match

Bill Richmond, boxer, in action

William Thompson, boxer
William Thompson (Bendigo), boxer

General Strike - volunteer driving electric tube train
The General Strike - a volunteer driving an electric tube train on the Metropolitan underground railway. 1926

Great Railway strike, LNW managers and clerical staff
Great Railway strike - LNW (London and North Western) Railway managers and clerical staff loading food. 1919

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