Recruitment poster, Join the Royal Artillery and know the pride of being a gunner. 1940s
Stretcher party crossing the Menin Road at Gheluvelt, by Gunner F J Mears, BEF, Royal Garrison Artillery (d. 1929). Date: 1914-1918
Royal Horse Artillery - Gun TeamRoyal Horse Artillery Gun Team - Horse artillery differs from field artillery in that the whole gun detachment is mounted and the gun and wagon aretherefore freed from the load of men
L Battery, Royal Horse Artillery. How our gunners won the VC and silenced the fire of the German guns in face of overwhelming odds Retreat from Mons, 1st September 1914
British 25-pounder field gun by G. H. DavisConsidered at the time to be the best field gun in the world: the British 25-pounder. Diagrammatic drawings of a famous British weapon
British WWII posterHelp Britain Finish the Job! - wartime poster drumming up support for British forces, illustrated by five soldiers manning an anti-aircraft gun for defence of the coast
Painting by Hs Power, artillery and horses at Ypres, WW1Painting by the Australian war artist Harold Septimus Power (1877-1971), showing artillery going into action before the Battle of Ypres
Goodbye, Old Man by Fortunino MataniaColour print of the famous picture by Fortunino Matania showing a gunner saying farewell to his dying horse. The original was painted for the Blue Cross Fund to raise money for the charity during
Woolwich BarracksDistant view of the Royal Artillery Barracks at Woolwich, south-east London
British Guns dash through French townA British Artillery piece is rushed at a gallop through the market-place of a French town, the square surrounded by shell damaged buildings
Scene near Mametz Wood, Western Front, WW1German ammunition wagons destroyed by British artillery fire near Mametz Wood on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916
Royal Field ArtilleryROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY Howitzer battery
WW1 poster, Types of the British Army, Dismounted Branches, showing the various uniforms. Date: 1914-1918
Tank Battle on the Somme British MkIV & German A7V tanks inTank Battle on the Somme. British MkIV & German A7V tanks in action. Date: circa 1918
British gunners, Battle of the Somme, WW1British gunners in action during the Battle of the Somme, First World War. Their guns are on " Percy Scott" mountings, with rather colourful camouflage paint. Date: 1918
Painting by Hs Power, War, WW1Painting entitled War by the Australian war artist Harold Septimus Power (1877-1971), showing soldiers on horseback, pulling heavy artillery across a field
HMS Queen Elizabeth, British battleshipHMS Queen Elizabeth, British dreadnought battleship, launched 1913, served during the First and Second World Wars, decommissioned 1948. Date: 20th century
Design and motto of the Royal Artillery -- UbiqueDesign and motto of the Royal Artillery, showing a crown, ornate initials RA in mirror image, a field gun, and the Latin word Ubique, meaning Everywhere
British Square / PollilurBritish East India troops under Colonel Baille form a square, offering meagre resistance to assault by the Indian army of Tipu Sultan and Hyder Ali at Pollilur
Honourable Artillery Cothe Honourable Artillery Company
Royal Horse ArtilleryBritish Royal Horse Artillery in action, 19th century
WWI - Battle of Champagne - Spent shell casingsWWI - Spent shell cases from just one battery after the first day of the Battle of Champagne (25th-30th September 1915) Date: 1915
The Battle of the Balloons. A fanciful image depicting four balloons with flags and sails, their passengers in close aerial combat. The opponents appear to be British and French. circa 18th century
Wwi Recruitment PosterFirst World War recruitment poster featuring a private and an officer and pictures of various divisions - including the Royal Flying Corps, Tank corps, artillery & cavalry
German machine gun in street, Grandpre, France, WW1German machine gun in a street in Grandpre, north eastern France, during the First World War. American troops of the 312nd Machine Gun Company, 78th Division, eventually entered the town
Gun transport exercise, Wentworth Woodhouse, YorkshireAn emergency gun transport exercise taking place at Wentworth Woodhouse, Lord Fitzwilliams residence at Rotherham, Yorkshire
German Railway gun captured at the Battle of Amiens - WW1A huge German Railway gun captured at the Battle of Amiens on 8th August 1918 became a source of some Allied controversy. The Australian 31st Battalion effected its capture, but
Admiral Sir John Jellicoe - British Royal Navy - WWIAdmiral of the Fleet John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe (1859-1935) - British Royal Navy - WWI. Commanded the Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland
HMS Royal Sovereign, British battleshipHMS Royal Sovereign, British Revenge class battleship, launched 1915, served in the First World War and part of the Second World War
The Queen as Captain-GeneralIn her role as Captain-General of the Honourable Artillery Company, the Queen presents new colours to Lieutenant F.H.B Layfield, right (Queens Colour) and Lieutenant J.S. Teakle (Regimental Colour)
Soldiers doing target practice on a shooting rangeA group of men doing target practice on a shooting range before the outbreak of the First World War. Their success or otherwise is written up on various blackboards
Officer of Royal Regiment of Artillery (1879) in undress uniform with sword and undress sabretache. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith
Lieutenant of the Royal Horse Artillery in Full Dress. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith
Austrian soldiers in uniform, WW1A selection of five Austro-Hungarian artillery soldiers and officers in uniform during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918
Howitzers in action, Western Front, WW1Heavy howitzers in action on the Western Front, directed towards German trenches, First World War. 1914-1918
First World War. Big Bertha M42WORLD WAR (1914-1918). BIG BERTHA M42. German gun used to bombard Paris from over 100 km. away in 1918. Its gauge was 210 mm. and was 34 m. long
British soldiers with artillery, Cameroon, Africa, WW1British soldiers with artillery, including a Howitzer gun, in the bush in Duala, Cameroon, west central Africa, during the First World War. Date: 25 December 1915
WW1 - French 400 mm railway howitzer and artillery squadronWW1 - Camo de mailly - French 400 mm railway howitzer and artillery squadron. The outbreak of the First World War caught the French with a shortage of heavy field artillery
General Sir Frederick Poole, British army officer, WW1Major General Sir Frederick Cuthbert Poole (1869-1936), British army officer. He joined the Royal Artillery in 1889, and served in the Second Boer War and the First World War. Date: circa 1914-1918
Cameron Highlanders with Maxim gun, WW1Two soldiers of the Cameron Highlanders using a Maxim gun during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918
General HCC Uniacke, British artillery officer, WW1Major General Sir Herbert Crofton Campbell Uniacke (1866-1934), British officer with the Royal Artillery during the First World War. Seen here in a head and shoulders studio photo
Great Crane at Woolwich Arsenal, south east LondonThe Great Crane at the Arsenal, Woolwich, south east London, used to lift sections of large guns
Greens Motors charabanc outing, Haverfordwest, South WalesA Greens Motors charabanc outing, with five charabancs in total, makes its way through the streets of Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
The Town of San Gimignano, Italy, 1944Photograph showing the eleventh-century hill-top town of San Gimignano, near Siena, Italy, prior to July 1944. Later that month the Illustrated London News reported that a German artillery
Cricket Match 1743A cricket match at the Artillery Ground, London. The 18th century bat was a longer, heavier, curved version and just one two-stump wicket was used
A Sixty-Five Pounder Opening Fire, by James McBey, WW1" Zero". A Sixty-Five Pounder Opening Fire, drypoint print by James McBey, First World War. Referring to a bombardment in Palestine in the early morning of 19 September 1918. 1920
An action at Bucquoy, Western Front 1918The Great Battle on the Western Front: open warfare - an action at Bucquoy, a village on the Arras-Albert road. Stand by British infantry at Bucquoy
British soldier bears to the firing line WWIDouble page showing a British private soldier, commonly know as a Tommy, showing a diagram of tools and equipment that he would have carried when marching to the trenches in World War One. 1915
