Army Collection (#13)

With the Army, Derby recruit measured for uniform, WW1
A Derby recruit in civilian clothes is measured up for his uniform during the First World War. Date: 1916

An ammunition column passing through Ypres, 1917. Captain Gilbert Holiday, Royal Field Artillery (1879-1937). Holidays Early Life Was Spent In St

General Sir Henry Horne, British army officer, WW1
General Sir Henry Sinclair Horne (1861-1929) of the British First Army during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Pilot of a Consolidated B-24 US Army Airforce Bomber climbing into his aircraft, prior to take-off. Date: circa 1940s

Church of England Service on a WWI battlefield for troops heading into the trenches - the Chaplain is officiating from a small field altar. Date: circa 1915

Edward of Woodstocks English army defeating
" Edward of Woodstocks English army defeating Jean IIs French army. Poitiers battle, 1356. Illustration from " Grandes Chroniques de France" (14th century). Gothic art

Greek triremes. Engraving. Warship appeared in 6th c. BC: It was used by Phoenicians, Greeks, Egyptians, Romans and Carthaginians

French Army Reviewed
ITALIAN CAMPAIGN Napoleon reviews his army at Milano Date: December 1800

How WWI was fought
" As it is for most of us" World War I was a slog, described by many as " 90% routine and 10% terror." Although soldiers lived with death every day, for the most part

Royal Horse Artillery Hounds, Shooters Hill, London
Captain Reed-Scot of the Royal Horse Artillery (Woolwich) leading out his draghounds at Shooters Hill, London. The pack consisted of 18 couples of hounds, kept in adjoining kennels to some foxes

Relief of Prague by Russians (1 / 6)
Prague, Czech Republic - relief of the city at the end of World War Two by Russian forces. Here a young Russian female soldier rides into the city. Date: 1945

Relief of Prague by Russians (2 / 6)
Relief of Prague by Russian forces at the end of World War Two. Russian officers march into Wenceslas Square ahead of their tanks, covered in troops and wellwishers. Date: 1945

Patriotic Postcard - WWI - Young Highlander
Patriotic Postcard - WWI - Young boy in the uniform of a Scots Highlander soldier posing on this Christmas Greetings Postcard. " I m Scotch ye ken and I ll let em know it!" Date: circa 1910s

East Surrey Regiment kick footballs
Soldiers of the East Surrey regiment advance through heavy fire towards enemy lines, kicking footballs as they go. The footballs were provided as a means of encouraging the men to attack

American 43rd Balloon Company, western front, WW1
Men of the American 43rd Balloon Company on the road to Bertrange Farm on the western front during the First World War. Date: 1918

British stretcher cases, Salonika, WW1
British stretcher cases awaiting transfer to a ship at Salonika (Salonica, Thessaloniki, Greece) during the First World War. Date: 1916

Patriotic Postcard - Officer and Union Flag
For the Old Flag A World War One era officer, pointing his pistol toward the enemy. Standing up tall before the Union flag, for King and Country... Date: circa 1916

French mobilisation poster, WW1
French mobilisation poster for the First World War, calling all enlisted soldiers and sailors, and requisitioning animals, vehicles and related equipment. Date: 2 August 1914

Dunsterforce infantry in action, WW1
Members of the Dunsterforce infantry in action in the desert near the Turkish front during the First World War. 1917-1918

Jan Breydel arriving at Dover with Haig and others
The hospital ship Jan Breydel arriving at Dover with Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig and other British army generals, soon after the end of the First World War. Date: circa December 1918

Wartime poster, The British Colonial Empire (African Rifles)
Wartime poster, The British Colonial Empire, featuring a member of the Kings African Rifles, with the regiment badge below, and the names of all the colonial countries listed on either side. 1940s

George V on guided tour near Mametz, The Somme, France
King George V passing between two mine craters near Mametz in The Somme, northern France, in a party guided by Mr Harding of the Royal Engineers

Lloyd George, General Wilson and General Foch
David Lloyd George (1863-1945), General Sir Henry Hughes Wilson (1864-1922) and General Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929), meeting around the end of the First World War

General Rawlinson and General Ironside, Archangel
General Sir Henry Rawlinson (1864-1925) (left) and Field Marshal William Edmund Ironside (1880-1959) (right), British army officers, seen here with others on the quay at Archangel (Arkhangelsk)

Kaiser Wilhelm II and General Leonard Wood, Germany
Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941), German Emperor, talking to the American General Leonard Wood (1860-1927) during German army manoeuvres which took place in Germany before the outbreak of the First

Arch, Prospect Park, New York. Triumphal arch at Grand Army Plaza at the entrance to Prospect Park, Brooklyn

Aerial view, Wesham Park Hospital, Lancashire
An aerial view of Wesham Park Hospital, Lancashire. It was originally erected in 1907 as the Fylde Union workhouse, then served as a military hospital during World War One

King George V at the battle front
King George V at an unspecified First World War battle front, meeting a nursing matron

Kensington & Chelsea District School, Boys Band
In 1876, the London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea established a District School for pauper children at Banstead, Surrey (later known as Beechholme)

Corporal - Drummer Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Corporal - drummer. Royal Welsh Fusiliers (1903-4) in Full dress. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Russian prisoners at Tannenberg
Russian prisoners in Tannenberg following the important battle fought there from August-September 1914 in which the German Eighth Army defeated the Russian 1st and 2nd Armies

Grove Hospital, Tooting Grove, Surrey
The Grove Hospital, at Tooting Grove, Surrey (now South London) was one of five new hospitals opened by the Metropolitan Asylums Board in the 1890s for the treatment of infectious diseases such as

General Sir James Willcocks / Stamp
General SIR JAMES WILLCOCKS (1857 - 1926) Indian born, British Army officer

General Sir Henry C. Sclater / Stamp
General SIR HENRY CRICHTON SCLATER (1855 - 1923) British Army General during World War I

Sir William P. Pulteney / Stamp
Lieutenant-General SIR WILLIAM PULTENEY PULTENEY (1861 - 1941) British general during the First World War. In command of British III Corps, then headed 23rd Army Corps

General Sir Henry de Beauvoir De Lisle / Stamp
General SIR HENRY DE BEAUVOIR DE LISLE (1864 - 1955) British Army General who served in World War I

General Wingate / Stamp
General SIR FRANCIS REGINALD WINGATE, 1st Baronet (1861 - 1953) British general and administrator in Egypt and the Sudan

Salonika - damage after French attacks
The damage caused by bombardment by the French 75th Division close to Doiran on Salonika during the Mediterranean Campaign

Modern Athenians plate 37 - Edinburgh
Capt. The Honorable Augustus G. F. Jocelyn (d. 1847) approaching Lieutenant General Sir Niel Douglas (1790-1853) commander and chief of the British army

Recruiting Sergeant - 68th Regiment of Foot - The Durham Light Infantry

Local Defence Volunteer Force
The uniform of the Local Defence Volunteer Force, established to defend Britain against the anticipated invasion by German parachutists

War with Russia - 5
The long-drawn out battle of the Vistula ends in a crushing defeat of the Red Army by the Poles, seen here posing later in the year with guns taken from the bolsheviks

Nicholas II with his staff
Tsar Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, shown with his staff on the Eastern front. Nicholas dismissed Grand Duke Nicholas in 1915

American Indians. The Modoc War in America. Lake Tule, with
The American army fought the Modoc Indians at the Lava Beds, California, after the Modoc had killed General Canby and the Rev Dr Thomas at a conference of Modoc chiefs and US Peace Commissioners

John Burgoyne / Chapman
JOHN BURGOYNE Dramatist and army officer (he surrendered at Saratoga in 1777)

General James Ewell Brown Stuart (1833-1864)
Portrait of General James Ewell Brown Stuart, better known as Jeb Stuart, of the Confederate Army; pictured during the American Civil War

The Zulu war. Fort Bengough. Church Parade of officers and n
British army ranks were substantially swelled by the NNC during the Zulu wars; their local knowledge of terrain and languages were invaluable

Washington at Delaware
Washington and his army cross the half frozen Delaware River, prior to the battle of Trenton

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