Armed Collection (page 8)

A beflagged Uncle Sam blows a bugle for recruits
The scene is outside a Recruiting Office with a sign Recruits Wanted guarded by an armed soldier. A dominant Uncle Sam has a small boy standing in front of him holding a US flag

A uniformed & armed Swiss soldier stands on guard
The image is of a strong figure dressed for winter warmth with a background of mountains and the Swiss flag. The card is an official one raising funds for the Red Cross. WW1 Date: 1915

Portrait of a Dwarf, ca. 1626, by Juan van der Hamen y
Juan van der Hamen y Leon (1596-1631). Portrait of a Dwarf, ca. 1626. Prado Museum. Madrid. Spain

?The Territorial Army. Ready and waiting. ? poster
The Territorial Army. Ready and waiting.? 1987. Colour photolithograph recruiting poster, published by the Armed Forces Careers Office, CP(A) 516A, June 1987

Laz gang - Turkey
Predictably the Black Sea man, or the " Laz" as he is called with a mixture of affection and sneer, has become a stock figure of the Turkish social typology. This gang is from Rize

Mosaic, 4th century. Roman gladiator. Thracians
Roman art. Mosaic, 4th century. Roman gladiator. Thracians (small rectangular shield called a parmula and short sword called sica and armoured greaves

Robert Flint
ROBERT FLINT Scottish philosopher, depicted as an armed knight, drawing his sword from its scabbard... Date: 1838 - 1910

Army School of Physical Training, Aldershot
Team photo from the Army School of Physical Training, Aldershot, Hampshire. Date: 1941

Walter Rothschild & collecting party, Algeria
Rothschild (second from right) undertook three separate ornithological collecting expeditions to Algeria in 1908, 1909 and 1911, along with Ernst Hartert

Devonport Royal United Service Orphan Home
The Royal United Service Orphan Home was founded in 1839 as the British Female Orphan Asylum, Devonport, for the orphan daughters of men in the armed forces

Westland Whirlwind I -an extremely promising and well armed long ranged fighter let down by fundamentally unreliable engines

World War I. Invasion of Belgium (1914). Detachment defending Belgian village fo Lombaertayde, NE of Niewpoort

Hundred Years War. Siege of Reims by King Edward III of England from December 1359 to January 1360. Engraving after the 15th century Chronicles (Chroniques) by Jean Froissart. Engraving

Warrior head. Mycenaean art
Ivory Head of a Warrior. 13th c. BC. Mycenaean art. Sculpture on ivory. GREECE. ATTICA. Athens. National Museum of Archaeology. Proc: GREECE. PELOPONNESE. ARCADIA. Mycenae

United States (1811). Battle of Tippecanoe
United States. Battle of Tippecanoe (4th November, 1811). General Harrison soldiers fight against Tecumseh indians

RMS Aquitania, cruise ship in war paint, WW1
RMS Aquitania, Cunard Line cruise ship, seen here in war paint during the First World War. The ship served as an armed merchant cruiser, as a troop ship and as a hospital ship. Date: 1914-1918

British troops repelling a German liquid fire attack, WW1
Fighting the flames on the battlefield - British troops repelling a German liquid fire attack. German soldiers, armed with flame throwers

British naval convoy system by G. H. Davis
The method of safeguarding the freedom of the seas: the British naval convoy system at work. Making the high seas safe for Allied

Royal Tournament, Earls Court 1950
A series of sketches showing events at the Royal Tournament, at Earls Court, London in 1950. Queen Elizabeth (later the Queen Mother)

Cambodia - Angkor Wat - Statue of Hindu Deity Vishnu
Cambodia - Angkor Wat - A surviving Statue of a many-armed Hindu Deity (Vishnu) in the South Gallery of the Main Entrance to the complex, being re-used as the focal point for Buddhist worship

Dassault Mirage III-C armed with Matra R530 air-to-air missi
Dassault Mirage III-C armed with a Matra R530 air-to-air missile

The fully armed second prototype Bristol Buckingham DX255
The fully armed second prototype Bristol Buckingham, DX255

Armed London fireman reunited with family, WW2
A London fireman, who volunteered to crew the London Fire Brigades fireboat Massey Shaw, is reunited with his wife and daughter after returning from the Dunkirk evacuations in which the Massey Shaw

Fiat 2000 Italian heavy tank, WW1
A Fiat 2000 Italian heavy tank, in production from 1917, in service from 1918 (though it did not take part in combat), weighing 40 tons. Date: March 1918

Macedonian Comitajis - Macedonia
Macedonian Comitajis (Slav-Macedonian and Bulgarian gangs) the activist bodies of a local nationalist and terrorist organisation founded in 1893

Afghan man of Damaun, Afghanistan
An Afghaun of Damaun. An armed Afghan resting a firearm on his shoulder. he has a sword hung at his side and a small circular shield slung over his back. 1815

A Scottish highwayman at the entrance of his cave by the roadside. Date: 19th Century

A Kenyan Askari - Nairobi, Kenya (then British East Africa), standing to rigid attention in full ceremonial costume Date: 1918

Romulus & Remus Fountain, Piazza del Popolo, Rome, Italy
View of the Romulus and Remus Fountain (Fontana della Dea Roma) in the Piazza del Popolo in Rome, Italy. The fountain represents the goddess Dea Roma armed with lance and helmet

All the Queens Men - Golden Jubilee Military Group
A painting by Malcolm Greensmith to celebrate Queen Elizabeth IIs Golden Jubilee in 2002, depicting members of a number of different regiments in the British Army

Union of Utrecht
De Unie van Utrecht forms an armed alliance of the united provinces, but effectively separates Holland from Belgium, which becomes the Spanish Netherlands

Nude by Suzanne Meunier
A nude model, armed with only a sabre and a whisp of cloth, poses for the artist

Norman Soldier 1066
A Norman warrior armed with helment, bow and arrows and sword

Amusement Arcade
Scene at a Blackpool amusement arcade, with a rather tawdry set of holidaymakers trying their luck on the One-Armed Bandits (slot machines) there

ILN 1952
PHYLLIS HOLMAN RICHARDS Page from The Illustrated London News featuring Phyllis Holman Richards who was awarded the Binney medal for bravery in the face of armed

Spartacist Troops / 1919
Armed workers on their way to occupy the newspaper district, Berlin. This was part of the failed Spartacist uprising

Salvation Army Band
A womens band, mostly armed with tambourines, but the leader has an accordeon, and a few have stringed instruments including - unexpectedly - what looks like a lute

The Old English Pike Exercise, Plate 1. 1794

The Old English Halbert Exercise, Plate 4, Double Armed Men &c. 1794

WW1 - Ireland and Britain united in the common cause. Date: circa 1915

Abyssinian expedition - Return of Army from Magdala
Mountain train as the British Army march back from Magdala, part of the Abyssinian expedition under General Napier. Soldiers lead pack mules laden with gun carriages

Rhine crossing: two Commandos looking out for snipers
Photograph showing the Rhine crossing: two Commandos looking out for snipers among the ruins of Osnabuck, 4 Apr 1945. Armed with a Bren Gun and Thompson sub-machine gun

Divisional Guard (2nd Arm d [?] Div)
Photograph: Divisional Guard (2nd Arm d [?] Div). Shows a line of armed men wearing tin helmets, and carrying their kit. From a photograph album containing 328 photographs compiled by Maj Wilfred

Sikh tank commander in the turret of his vehicle
Photograph of a Sikh tank commander in the turret of his vehicle. The tank is armed with a 50. calibre machine-gun for close fire support

Indian soldiers in trench, Gallipoli, 1915.Photograph by Reggie Savory, 1915.Sikh soldiers of 29th Indian Infantry Brigade rest in a trench, probably in the Cape Helles area

?Feel Boxed In... ??, 1996
?Feel Boxed In...??, 1996.Colour photolithograph recruiting poster published by the Armed Forces Careers Office, 1996. Date: 1996

?Or perhaps you find a night in front of the telly... ?, 1995
?Or perhaps you find a night in front of the telly...?, 1995. Colour hotolithograph recruiting poster published by the Armed Forces Careers office, 1996. Date: 1996

Sallust (86-35 BC). Jugurthine War
Sallust (Gaius Sallustius Crispus) (86-35 BC). Roman politician and historian. Jugurthine War (111-104 BC). Engraving depicting the battle between the army of Jugurtha

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