Balaclava Collection (page 2)

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

Cartoon, Coiffure in the Trenches, WW1
Cartoon, Coiffure in the Trenches. Keep yer ead still, or I ll ave yer blinkin ear off. By Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, 1st Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment (1888-1959)

Shetland Wool Cardigan for soldiers, World War One
A shetland wool cardigan, with balaclava, available from Scott Adies of Regent Street and an ideal present to send to fighting men on the Western Front during Christmas 1915. Date: 1915

Sir Colin Campbell (1792-1865)
Portrait of Sir Colin Campbell, pictured in 1855 when he was in command of the Heavy Brigade, 93rd Highlanders notable for their actions during the Battle of Balaclava, Crimean War, 1854-6

Third Earl of Lucan
Major-general GEORGE CHARLES BINGHAM, third earl of LUCAN Military commander during the Crimea War, implicated in the controversial charge by the Light Brigade at Balaklava. Date: 1800 - 1888

The Charge of the Light Brigade - Balaclava, Crimean War
The Charge of the Light Brigade (4th Hussars) - Balaclava, Crimean War, 25th October 1854. Date: 1854

Looking towards Balaclava, Turkish camp in the distance to the right. Military personnel, some on horseback, at encampment on the plateau of Sevastopol. Date 1855

Encampment of the 71st Regiment at Balaclava commissariat camp &c. Tents and huts of British camps on hillside and valley at Balaklava, and soldiers of the 71st Regiment. Date 1855

View of the lines of Balaclava from Guards Hill; Canroberts Hill in the distance. Men, buildings, and tents on hillside above valley; below in the distance are more tents and hills. Date 1855

Balaclava looking seawards, the Commandants house in the foreground. Balaklava looking seaward showing general view of the landscape and buildings with the Commandants house in the foreground

After the Charge of the Light Brigade - all that was left of them, left of six hundred Date: 25 October 1854

Captain Scott smoking on board the Terra Nova
Captain Scott having a quiet smoke on board the Terra Nova on his way to the Antarctic in December 1910

Railway works at Balaclava 1855
British navvies commence work on the construction of a railway line between Balaclava and Sebastopol in the Crimea

The Sentry by Bruce Bairnsfather
Original pencil sketch by the famous World War I cartoonist, Bruce Bairnsfather, creator of " Old Bill", showing a British soldier standing sentry in a trench

Graves at Balaklava
Graves at the head of the harbour at Balaklava

Balaklava, the Port
The harbour, looking towards the sea

Embarking Sick, Balaklava
Embarking the sick at Balaklava

Supplies, Balaklava
Bringing up supplies of huts and warm clothing for the British troops, Balaklava

Heights, Balaklava
A general view of the heights above Balaklava - the scene of the important battles and the notorious Charge of the Light Brigade

Balaklava, Railway
Railway in the harbour, looking south

Lighthouse Chersonese
Cape Chersonese is close to Balaklava, and this lighthouse is a valuable seamark to Allied shipping during the Crimea War

Cape Aita Nr. Balaclava
A view of Cape Aita looking north toward Balaclava

Sledge Games
Mothers and children playing with a sledge in the snow on a suburban street in Horley, Surrey, England

Cardigan a Hero
Lord Cardigan depicted as the hero of the Charge of the Light Brigade

Balaclava / Marshman
The Charge of the Light Brigade - the first line reaches the Russian guns

Balaclava / Simpson
The Charge of the Light Brigade - a birds eye view of the action

Crimean War / Balaclava
British Light Cavalry attacking the Russian guns

Balaklava, Harbour
General view of the harbour

Balaclava / Heavy Brig
The Charge of the Heavy Brigade

Balaclava / Music Sheet
The Charge of the Light Brigade

Balaclava / Gilbert
The Charge of the Light Brigade - the thick of the fighting

Balaclava / Charlton
The Charge of the Light Brigade - Lord George Paget heads the 4th Light Dragoons

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