Armoured Collection (page 9)

Armoured cars at Biefvillers, Somme, France, WW1
Armoured cars setting out on a reconnaissance mission at Biefvillers during the Second Battle of the Somme on the Western Front in northern France during the First World War. Date: 25 August 1918

Anti-bandit campaign in Corsica
Armoured cars and armed guards protect the police and army officers as they scour the countryside around Calcatoggio, during the anti-bandit campaign in Corsica. 1932

View of Rome
An imaginary view of Rome in a marginal drawing. In front of the city stand two men, one of whom is wearing armour. There are birds flying over their heads

Hercules strikes Cacus, and view of Rome
Page of text with marginal drawings. At the top in the left margin is a picture of Rome. In front of the city stand two men, one of whom is wearing armour. There are birds flying over their heads

Robert Chaumberleyn
ROBERT CHAUMBERLEYN Esquire to king Henry V, and supposed to have been present at the battle of Agincourt. He is both well armed and well armoured, protected cap-a-pie. Date: flourished 1417

Roger De Trumpington
SIR ROGER DE TRUMPINGTON a Cambridgeshire warrior, in full fighting gear - armoured from top to toe, with shield and broadsword. He is buried in Trumpington church. Date: flourished 1289

Richard Earl of Warwick
RICHARD BEAUCHAMP, EARL OF WARWICK Lieutenant-general of the Realm of France, governor of Normandy and Captain of Calais, fully armoured on the battlements of Warwick castle. Date: 1382 - 1439

Monitor / Merrimac / Beilch
The Battle of Hampton Roads. The Confederates armoured frigate Merrimac destroyed many Federal vessels, but retreated following action with Monitor, a turret ship. Date: 8-9 March 1862

Monitor & Merrimac
The Battle of Hampton Roads. The Confederates armoured frigate Merrimac destroyed many Federal vessels, but retreated following action with Monitor, a turret ship. Date: 8-9 March 1862

Homme D armes
Un homme d armes - French horse warrior with armoured horse

Armoured truck design undergoing testing
An armoured truck design undergoing testing by soldiers during the First World War

Armoured cars and motorcycle outrider
Two armoured cars and a motorcycle outrider on a dusty country road during the First World War

Two tank designs undergoing military testing
Two unusual armoured tank designs undergoing military testing during the First World War

Armoured tank in a battlefield
View of an armoured tank sitting on a battlefield during the First World War

Disabled German tank on battlefield
View of a disabled German tank on a battlefield during the First World War

Soldiers and tank in trench
A group of World War One soldiers, looking at an armoured tank which has accidentally slipped into their trench

Armoured tank undergoing field testing
An armoured tank undergoing field testing during the First World War

Tank breaking through barbed wire barricade
An armoured tank breaking through a barbed wire barricade on a battlefield during the First World War

Armoured trains Warspite and Valiant, Iraq
Two armoured trains, Warspite and Valiant, somewhere in Iraq, with a British soldier standing proudly alongside

Armoured truck and support vehicle, Middle East
An armoured truck and a support vehicle with soldiers, somewhere in the Middle East

Spartacist uprising, Berlin - 1919
The Spartacist uprising (German: Spartakusaufstand), also known as the January uprising (Januaraufstand) - a general strike and the accompanying armed struggles that took place in Berlin in January

French armoured car WWI
French Armoured car supporting British troops in Meteren during the Battle of the Lys, World War I

Armoured train WWI
Armoured train in Finland during World War I

Austrian armoured car traversing a river

Armoured car - Anschluss
Armoured car (Panzerauto) outside the Austrian chancellery after Dollfuss murder

German armoured cars during manoeuvres in 1935

Second Battle of the Somme 1918
An armoured car about to start on a reconaissance near Biefvillers at the second Battle of the Somme on the Western Front in France during World War I in August 1918

HMS Terrible and HM Yacht jigsaw puzzle
A colour illustration of HMS Terrible, a Royal Navy armoured cruiser launched in 1895. Below is a jigsaw puzzle box of His Majestys Yacht at Cowes on the Isle of Wight

Russian armoured car
German officers examine a captured Russian armoured car

English Troops landing at Thessaloniki
In 1915, during World War I, a large Allied expeditionary force landed at Thessaloniki as the base for operations against pro-German Bulgaria

The General Strike - a food convoy
Armoured convoy leaving Hyde Park at daybreak during the General Strike. In support of a strike by coal miners over the issue of threatened wage cuts

The war in South Africa, where railways and armoured trains were much used: A Burgher Commando detraining

Canadian soldiers inspecting armoured cars at the Salisbury Plain camp

A fight between an armoured car and a German cavalry patrol

American Troops during the Battle of the Bulge; Second Wor
Photograph showing American soldiers of the Second Armoured Division taking a break in their advance across the snow-covered fields of the low countries

RAF Typhoons attack German tanks, France; Second World War
Illustration showing Royal Air Force Typhoons, fighter-bombers equipped with rockets, attacking a column of German armour, near Mortain, 1944

British Armoured Vehicles advancing in Normandy; Second Worl
Photograph showing British Armoured vehicles and tanks heading off to attack German positions in Normandy, France, during July 1944

Allied Troops in the Reichswald Forest; Second World War, 19
Photograph showing British and Canadian troops, tanks, armoured vehicles and trucks on the edge of the Reichswald Forest during the Allied offensive of February 1945

Checking the Bank Thief: Steel Pill-Boxes Guard Valuables
Illustration of precautions taken by a Chicago Bank against bank robbers : an armoured pill box containg an armed guard

Boer / Armoured Train / Iln
TROOP MOVEMENTS Soldiers travel in an armoured train near Frere

Damaged Concrete Wall, France; Second World War, 1944
Photograph showing the damage caused to a reinforced concrete wall by a Flying Dustbin explosive charge, France, 1944. The Churchill AVRE (Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers)

Franco-Prussian War. The Defence of Paris: Gunboats on the S
Steam driven armoured gunboat flying the french tricolour

Kangaroo Vehicles, Holland; Second World War, 1944
Photograph showing Kangaroo armoured vehicles of the British Second Army moving through Holland on the way to the front line, December 1944

Churchill AVRE Tank entering Geilenkirchen; Second World War
Photograph showing a Churchill AVRE (Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers) tank entering the town of Geilenkirchen in late 1944

Armoured Train
Iron-car battery on the Philadelphia Railway

Galleys Attack Town
Armoured galleys lower their masts and attack a town, with protection for the oarsmen from the arrows of the defenders

Armoured Train at Samara
CIVIL WAR Heavily armed troops on board a red army armoured train at Samara

Boer War Armoured Train
Armoured train used by the British; the locomotive is given blanket protection

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