Balaclava Collection

Battle Balaclava (Gibb)
The Thin Red Line of the 93rd Highlanders repel the Russian cavalry

Charge of Light Brigade
The charge of the Light Brigade Cardigan in action

11th Hussars at Balaclava, Charge of the Light Brigade, Crimean War. Date: 1854

Heavy Brigade / Simpson
The charge of the Heavy Cavalry

7th Earl of Cardigan
James Thomas Brudenell 7th earl of CARDIGAN military, notably at the battle of Balaklava during the Crimea War

Crimean War. Sketch of Balaklava, 1856 Date: 1856

17th Lancers, Charge of the Light Brigade, Balaclava, Crimea
Into the Valley of Death - The 17th Lancers during the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava on 25th October 1854 during the Crimean War - by John Charlton. 1854

Robert Falcon Scott - at the Antarctic
Scott of the Antarctic. Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868 - 1912) - who lost his life in an ill-fated race to be the first person to reach the South Pole

Crimean War

Balaclava / Dupray
The Charge of the Light Brigade - into the Valley of Death !

The pocket-pistol - equipped for Balaclava. A soldier handing a pistol(?) to a mounted soldier as another soldier looks on. Date 1855

Sir Henry Maxse
Sir Henry Fitzhardinge Berkeley Maxse, who died in 1883 while in office as Governor of Newfoundland, having previously been Governor of Heligoland

Home made car
A young man got up in motoring kit including a balaclava and goggles, poses at the wheel of an evidently home made car with hand-scrawled number plate!

7th Earl of Cardigan
James Thomas Brudenell 7th earl of CARDIGAN military, notably at the battle of Balaklava during the Crimea War

Balaclava and sleeping cap knitting patterns, WW1
Patterns from a plain helmet or balaclava cap (top) and a sleeping cap taken from a Great War era Baldwins knitting booklet with instructions for knitting various comforts for soldiers at the front

Charging with the Light Brigade at Balaclava, Crimean War, October 1854 - The Death or Glory Boys, 17th Lancers Date: 1854

British Productions films 1929 and 1930 - The Bondman, The First-Born, The Wrecker, The Burgomaster of Stilemonde, The Woman in White, The Blue Peter, Albino the Outcast, When Knights Were Bold

Benita Hume and Cyril MacLaglen in Balaclava
Benita Hume and Cyril MacLaglen in Gainsborough Pictures war film Balaclava, directed by Maurice Elvey Date: 1929

Cartoon, Enthusiasm of Paterfamilias
Varying reactions to the newspaper accounts of the glorious charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava - Papa thinks only of the glory, his womenfolk think of the dead October 1854

CEMETERIES/BALAKLAVA
The cemetery of Crimea War victims on Cathcart's Hill, Balaklava, is visited by Prince Edward and Alexandra and other visitors Date: 1869

Charge of the Light Cavalry at Balaclava, 25 October 1854, Crimean War Date: 1854

The Heavy Cavalry Charge at Balaclava, 25 October 1854, Crimean War Date: 1854

c. 1855 Crimea Crimean War (Roger Fenton) - Marechal Pelissier
c.1855 Crimea Crimean War (Roger Fenton) - Marechal Pelissier

Progress of the Balaclava Railway to the Church of Kadikoy, Crimean War. 1855

Balaklava Harbour from Genoese fortress, Sevastopol, Crimea
Balaklava Harbour, Sevastopol, Crimea, viewed from a ruined Genoese fortress. 1855

Music cover, The Cardigan Galop by Carl Hochst, dedicated to Major General The Earl of Cardigan, seen here galloping over a Russian gun emplacement at Balaclava during the Crimean War. 1854

Earl of Cardigan leading Light Cavalry at Balaclava
Earl of Cardigan leading the Light Cavalry in the last charge at Balaclava, Crimean War. 1855

The charge of the heavy cavalry Date: 25 October 1854

The charge of the Heavy Brigade Date: 25 October 1854

The Light Cavalry charge. Date: 25 October 1854

James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan (1797 - 1868), British military leader and politician, pictured c.1865. Cardigan is renowned as the leader of the ill-fated Charge of the Light Brigade

BALAKLAVA, GALE
Steamships and sailing vessels caught in a gale off Balaclava Date: 14 November 1854

The 93rd Sutherland Highlanders at the Battle of Balaclava 25 October 1854. The Thin Red LineWatercolour by Richard Simkin

British soldier eating rations at the Front, WW1
Tommys Salle A Manger at the Front. Dinner-time in a British trench where the soldiers dining room with tapestried with mud and carpeted with muddy water. Date: 1915

Helmet with cape pieces by Marjory Tillotson, WW1 knitting
Pattern from a Baldwins knitting booklet during the First World War for a wool helmet with cape pieces to protect the neck and chest designed by the leading knitting expert

Weldons garments & hospital comforts, knitting booklet, WW1
Be useful in this time of war. Front cover of a Weldons booklet with instructions on how to make a variety of garments for soldiers and hospital comforts for wounded men

Crimean War, position of Allies around Balaclava
Crimean War -- position of the Allies around Balaclava. 1855

Caricature of Walter Joyce, English actor -- On and off the stage, he draws. 1880

Children playing in a street -- one boy is wearing a balaclava. Date: 1970s

Dog Collects for Wool
Southville Beau, a Yorkshire Terrier, has collected three thousand pennies for the Wool Fund to knit socks and balaclava helmets for our boys in the trenches. Date: 1914 - 1918 war

The Vienna Auto cap - ladies motoring wear 1912
Helmet-shaped knitted cap designed to protect the chin from the wind during inclement weather. The cap is warm, light, and porous

Advert for Shoolbreds soldiers & sailors comforts 1915
Advertisement for Shoolbreds comforts for soldiers and sailors during the First World War. Army shirts, soldiers cardigan jackets and woven body belts are among the products advertised. 1915

The Needle Worker, WW1 knitting & sewing booklet
Front cover of monthly magazine, The Needle Worker, from the Great War period featuring a photograph of a Belgian kepi cap - the knitting pattern for which was inside. Date: c.1915

Leachs WW1 knitting booklet - Comforts for Men
Front cover of a Leachs Comforts for Men booklet, part of their Home Needlework Series, featuring a number of woollen comforts including a helmet or balaclava, fingerless gloves and socks

Weldons paper patterns for our troops, WW1
Page of items that could be made from Weldons paper patterns for soldiers during the First World War. Garments include night shirts, a bed jacket and a flannel helmet in a balaclava style. Date: c

American Red Cross Womens Bureau WW1 knitting booklet
Front cover of The American Red Cross Womens Bureau instructions for knitting comforts for soldiers. Photograph features a very handsome young man dressed in a knitted balaclava with extended chest

WW1 knitting booklet patterns, knitted helmets
Inside of a First World War era knitting booklet with various patterns instructing knitters how to make woollen comforts for the troops

Mens Wear during WW1, August and February by J. H. Thorpe
The contrast in clothing worn by British soldiers in the trenches in August and in February. The soldier on the left wears the familiar khaki tunic, breeches and puttees

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