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Junkers Ju 523m -active across every theatre of German operations throughout the war

WW1 - Practical Gifts for the soldier at the front
WW1 - Practical Christmas Gifts for the service men at the front from John Pound & Co. These include lamps watches a map ase, a khaki campaign roll and an aluminium canteen Date: 1915

Keep Your Distance, Currier and Ives, (active 1857-1907). Litography

Switzerland - Basel, Old Bridge and Three Kings Hotel
Coloured lantern slide depicting a view of the Three Kings Hotel, Basel. Old Bridge can be seen in the foreground, as can the River Rhine

Italy - Erupting Active Volcano
Black and white lantern slide of erupting active volcano.. Part of Box 214, Italy, Boswell collection. Date: circa 1890s

Steppe / Horsfields Tortoises graze (Agrionemys horsfieldii). near Karahoudan village - foothills of Kopetdag mountains - Turkmenistan. Testudo - Spring - April

Green Cicada, which is active around dusk, in daytime hides in vegetation in undergrowth of rainforest (Dundubia vaginata). Tioman Island, 30 km east off peninsula Malaysia in South China Sea; June

Atlas Moth - male (has feathery antennae used for searching females by their pheromones) - in hand - taken from a window of a house in the morning (its active at night) (Attacus atlas )

Steppe / Horsfields Tortoise - active during day in a desert (Agrionemys horsfieldii). Caspian sea shore - Turkmenistan. Testudo - April

Womens War Work WW1 Ploughing
Lithograph by A.S Hartrick (Archibald Standish Hartrick 1864-1950) entitled, Womens Work: On the Land Ploughing Two women undertaking agricultural work as they replaced men on active service as part

Suffragist Lasy McLaren. Lady Laura McLaren (1854-1933) was active in the woman suffrage campaign for many years, member of the Womens Liberal Federation

Cage of the unenfranchised. A wicker cage constrains hens and a parrot with a ticket listing those who are outside the democratic process criminals, aliens, Paupers, lunatics and women

WW2 Poster -- Flies Foul Food -- Keep Food Covered
Flies Foul Food - Diarrhoea and Dysentery Follow. Keep Food Covered! Colour lithograph poster after 2nd Lt Stacey Hopper. Anti-dysentery

WW2 Poster -- Flies Foul Food
Flies Foul Food. Your health depends on wholesome food - keep it covered from flies! Colour lithograph poster after 2nd Lt Stacey Hopper

WW2 Poster -- Tablet day
Tablet day! Colour lithograph poster after 2nd Lt Stacey Hopper. Medical related poster for British soldiers on active service in Italy

India on active service during World War I
Various Indian groups and individuals all fighting with the British army during World War I. Date: 1914

Nursing caricatures by Fred May, WW1
Various nursing personalities, caricatured by Fred May during the First World War. All of them at one time or another were on active service, working in hospitals in France. Date: 1918

Wooden Propeller manufactured by Frederick Tibbenham of Ipswich (the companys transfer sign of a bumble bee was used on every propeller that the company made)

Album of 53 drawings done whilst on sctive service - WWI
An album of 53 drawings. Front cover dated October 3rd 1917. All drawn in an Army notebook, No. 152. On Active Service with the 5th CMGS, known as The Shiny Fifth

Wooden Propeller painted with either an RE8 or a BE2E on a spotting and reconnaissance mission leaving English coastline over the North Sea.. J. Willey J

The Kangaroo Marines by Captain R W Campbell, WW1
Book Cover mounted on card - The Kangaroo Marines by Captain R W Campbell - Author of Private Spud Tamson (published by Cassell)

Soldier writing, WW1
Soldier writing, from the Sketch Book of 240455 Private George Barrow, 6th Battalion, Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry (formerly 7389, Royal Berkshire Regiment)

Soldier smoking pipe - Bowler, Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry. From the Sketch Book of 240455 Private George Barrow, 6th Battalion, Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry (formerly 7389)

General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien, WW1
Portrait of General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien with the British flag. By 240455 Private George Barrow, 6th Battalion, Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry (formerly 7389, Royal Berkshire Regiment)

Air raid over London seen from Trafalgar Square, WW1
Air-raid over London seen from Trafalgar Square. By 240455 Private George Barrow, 6th Battalion, Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry (formerly 7389, Royal Berkshire Regiment)

Cricketers on active service
Members of county championship cricket teams who were called up for active service following the outbreak of World War I. 1914

Tourists clambering up the slopes of Vesuvius
Carrying a sedan chair up Vesuvius on the Grand Tour during the 19th Century. Date: mid 19th century

Sportsmen on active service during World War I
The call to arms summoned a number of prominent sports personalities to the front. Among them are Captain McCalmont, the owner of The Tetrarch, Captain Tomkinson, of polo fame, and Captain Gibbon

Adelina Munro Drysdale in patriotic costume, WW1
Miss Adelina Munro Drysdale (1896-1942), daughter of Countess Battaro Cosa, pictured in a patriotic costume with the British and French flags across the bodice of her dress

Advert for Star safty razor 1915
Star safety razor, your chum at the front deserves the best that money can buy. With finest sheffield steel hollow- ground blade that lasts a lifetime. 1915

Coloured depiction of lesion on arm Source: An inquiry into the causes and effects of the variol栶 accinae, a disease discovered in some of the western counties of England

Coloured depiction of lesion on a hand Source: An inquiry into the causes and effects of the variol栶 accinae, a disease discovered in some of the western counties of England

Naples and Mount Vesuvius, Italy
Naples and a smoking Mount Vesuvius, Italy. Date: late 19th century

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