Armbands Collection

Two women police officers and woman with suitcase
Two women police officers (Jean Grasy and Margaret Findlay or Knight), one of them a sergeant, talking to a young woman with a suitcase on a London street. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1960s

Royal Aero Club Mechanic armbands, Daily Mail Circuit
EARLY AVIATION PIONEERS - THE SAMUEL CODY ARCHIVE: Extremely rare mechanic armbands from The Daily Mail Circuit of Britain Competition, circa 1911

Two British officers of the Scots Guards bearing the Colour at the changing of the guard at Buckingham palace. The two soldiers are seen in black crepe armbands, as ordered by the King

Noble Namaqua woman of South Africa. She wears a robe with beaded belt, necklace and armbands. From Francois Le Vaillants Second Voyage into the Interior of Africa

Children wearing Swimeesy Buoy, invented two before in 1907. Date: 1909

Three Nurses in uniform - WW1 era - North London. Date: circa 1917

Two police officers in SPG van, Met Police, London
Two police officers, one male, one female (WPC McKay), in an SPG (Special Patrol Group) van, Met Police, London. The SPG was set up in 1961 to provide a centrally-based mobile capability for dealing

Two women police officers outside a police station. On the left is a sergeant, on the right WPC Daphne Acton in the new style Norman Hartnell uniform, introduced in 1968. Date: circa late 1960s

WW2 Poster -- Army Officer and other badges
Distinctive Badges of Rank of Officers in the Army, showing corresponding ranks in Royal Navy, Army, & Royal Air Force. Colour lithograph published by Gale and Polden Limited, Aldershot

Two police officers in a police station, London
Two police officers, one male, one female, in a police station, London, standing on either side of the counter. Date: circa 1930s

Two police officers working in a station, London
Two police officers working in a London police station. The WPC is Maureen (Mo) Dennison. Date: circa 1950s

Two women police officers working in a station, London
Two women police officers working in a London police station, looking in a book. One of them is Maureen (Mo) Dennison (right). Date: circa 1950s

Women police officers singing in choir, Met Police, London
Women police officers singing in the first womens choir, Met Police, London. The conductor is Sybil Hill. Date: circa 1948

Woman police officer on bicycle, Met Police
Woman police officer (mobile officer) riding a bicycle along a country road, wearing uniform with a duty armband. Date: circa 1950s

Two police officers with motorcycles, London
Two police officers (one male, one female: Margaret Cheesley) with motorcycles, Epsom, Surrey. At this time, training courses were being run for WPCs in the use of a new type of lightweight motor

Woman police officer outside police station, London
Woman police officer (Peggy Spalton) standing outside a London police station. Date: circa 1960s

Two women police officers walking along London street
Two women police officers (Sergeant Neale, left, and Constable Cooper, right) walking along a London street. Date: circa 1960s

Woman police officer and woman with handbag, London
Woman police officer talking to a young woman with a handbag outside a shop on a London street, and making notes in a notebook. Date: circa 1960s

Woman police officer standing by mounted policeman, London
Woman police officer standing by a mounted policeman just off Hammersmith Bridge, West London. Date: circa 1950s

Woman police officer and woman with handbag
Woman police officer, Sergeant Greta Drinkwater (nee Saban), talking to a woman with a handbag in a London street. Drinkwater would rise to the rank of Chief Superintendent

Two women police officers in a London street
Two women police officers (Valerie Fenner, left, and Sarah Phillips, right) walking along a London street with a wrought iron gate in the background. Date: circa 1950s

Costumes of the Nama people of South Africa.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

NFS (Salvage Corps) workers at a fire, WW2
Salvage workers from Cannon Street fire station sub-station A2Z.2X (Watling Street) undertaking salvage work at a warehouse fire

Woman police officer at work in a London police station, helping a visitor at the front desk. Date: circa early 1960s

Women police officers on parade at Peel House, London
A group of women police officers, some of them sergeants, and some wearing medals, on parade in the yard of Peel House, a Met Police training centre in London. Date: 1929

Police officers at work, Hammersmith, London
Male and female police officers at work in Hammersmith Police Station, West London. A sergeant sits at a desk making notes. The woman on the right is Matron Mrs Collins

Three women police officers, Isle of Man, WW2
Three women police officers in an informal group photo while serving at an internment camp, Port Erin, Isle of Man, during the Second World War

Three police officers, Isle of Man, WW2
Three police officers in an informal group photo while serving at an internment camp, Port Erin, Isle of Man, during the Second World War. Their duties included luggage checks and guarding internees

Woman police officer at Pembridge Hall Section House
Woman police officer doing her hair in a mirror, sitting in her bedroom at Pembridge Hall Section House, Pembridge Square, Bayswater, London W2

Group photo, women police officers, Met Police, Croydon
Group photo, seven women police officers, Met Police, Croydon Police Station. They are WPCs Pamela Allibone, Kay Parrott, Kathryn Neville, Margaret McNab, Jean Goodwin and Marian Sands

Woman police officer Shirley Becke, London, WW2
Shirley Cameron Becke (nee Jennings, 1917-2011), later to become Commander of the Met Polices A4 (Women s) Branch from 1966 to 1973

Woman police officer in Westminster, London
Woman police officer on duty in Westminster, central London, standing on steps with Big Ben in the background. She is wearing the Norman Hartnell uniform, introduced in 1968

Two women police officers escorting woman, London
Two women police officers, one of them a sergeant, escorting a woman into a London police station. The notice board on the left displays a few Reward posters. Date: circa 1950s

Two women police officers entering Bow Street police station
Two women police officers (Constable Sheila Acton and Sergeant Margaret Heald) entering Bow Street police station, London. A policeman stands at the top of the steps. Date: circa 1960s

Two women police officers with woman on London street
Two women police officers (Sergeant Neale, left, and Constable Cooper, right) talking to a fashionable young woman outside a Mecca Ballroom on a London street. Date: circa 1960s

Woman police officer and two young women, London
Woman police officer with notebook and pencil, talking to two fashionable young women on a London street. Date: circa 1960s

Woman police officer and woman with suitcase
Woman police officer and a young woman with a suitcase on a London street. Date: circa 1960s

Woman police officer standing by a car, London
Woman police officer standing by a large black car in a London street, writing something in a notebook. Has the driver committed a driving offence, or is she helping him with directions

Woman police officer standing by car, Hammersmith, London
Woman police officer standing by a large black car just off Hammersmith Bridge, West London, writing something in a notebook. Date: circa 1950s

Two women police officers, London
Two women police officers (Jessica Penfold or Leach and Barbara Melham or Bissell) leaving a building in London to go on duty. Date: circa 1950s

Three police officers on duty in London, one of them WPC Elly Macon, holding a crowd of children back. Date: circa 1960s

Woman police officer on traffic duty, London
Woman police officer on traffic duty in a London street, helping a schoolboy and schoolgirl cross the road safely. (2 of 3) Date: circa 1960s

Two women police officers on duty in London
Two women police officers on duty in a London street, one of them on a police telephone reading from a notebook, the other one (Annette Payne) in the background with a member of the public

Woman police officer on duty in Central London
Woman police officer (Sylvia Cloake) on duty in Central London, with the National Gallery and St Martin in the Fields in the background. Date: circa 1950s

Women recruits for police jobs lined up
Women recruits for jobs with the Metropolitan Police in London lined up in uniform wearing armbands with the initial WPSR (probably standing for Women Police Service Recruit). Date: circa late 1910s

Funeral of Governor General Lee Stack, Cairo
Funeral cortege of Governor General and Sirdar of the Egyptian Army, Sir Lee Oliver Fitzmaurice Stack (1868-1924), passing through Opera Square, Cairo, in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 22 November 1924

Cartoon, The Good Alphabet, WW1
Cartoon, The Good Alphabet. Two Frenchmen with different initials on their armbands meet on a country road. The main thing is that they are on the same side. Date: 1915

Eve walks out with Uncle Fred wearing his volunteer armbands
Illustration by Annie Fish to illustrate Letters of Eve in The Tatler. The eponymous Eve is walking out with her Uncle Fred who always aggressive

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