Battery Collection

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

Goodbye, Old Man by Fortunino Matania
Colour print of the famous picture by Fortunino Matania showing a gunner saying farewell to his dying horse

Poster, Exide, The Long Life Car Battery, needs no handle to its name. circa 1945

Royal Field Artillery
ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY Howitzer battery

Winston Churchil visiting gun sites, England, 1944
Winston Churchill visiting anti flying bomb defences in June 1944. Seen here at a gun battery in southern England

WWI - Battle of Champagne - Spent shell casings
WWI - Spent shell cases from just one battery after the first day of the Battle of Champagne (25th-30th September 1915) Date: 1915

ROBERTS R RADIO 1970S
A trendy Roberts R portable radio

Sandown, Isle of Wight, viewed from Battery Gardens - Painted by William Carruthers Affleck for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Winston Churchill and his daughter unite for the war effort
Mr. Churchill at a London gun site during a raid:drawing made on the spot

The charge of the 9th Lancers at a German battery near Mons

Wwi / 1914 / Mons / Cavalry
9th Lancers of the British cavalry in action at a German battery near Mons, France

With the field guns on the Western Front. A visit to a British battery. With the British Army on the Western Front - published in 1916 for Tatler and Sphere.. Fortunino Matania, Ri (1881-1963)

A heavy gun battery moving uphill during the Balkan campaign
A French heavy-gun battery move up a steep hill during fighting with the Bulgarian army on the Macedonian border, October 1916

BAC Bloodhound Mk. 2
Royal Australian Air Force - BAC Bloodhound Mk.1 battery of No.30 Squadron RaF at RaF Williamstown, or RaF Darwin. Date: 1963-1968

Advert in Harness Eye Battery 1886
Harness Eye Battery promises to cure weak eyes and restore failing sight. Date: 1886

LCC-LFB battery-electric pump-escape at Southwark
An early electric wheeled escape ladder vehicle, Cedes battery-driven pump/50ft escape, based at Bow fire station, seen here in the drill yard at Southwark Headquarters

Cardboard advertising sign for Exide Batteries
A delightful cardboard sign advertising Exide Batteries - the long life battery. *EDITORIAL USE ONLY*

Weapon / Anti-Aircraft Ww2
German anti-aircraft battery (probably on the French Channel coast) Date: 1940

Women as electricians WWI
Women in London electric station

Thirty Years War. Battle of Rocroy (1643). Formed troops. Detail. Painting. FRANCE. Versailles. National Museum of Versailles

Bringing up the Guns
An Australian battery going into action during World War One. Date: 1920s

Coastal defence battery near Middelkerke, Belgium, WW1
A gun of the Cecilie coastal defence battery near Middelkerke in West Flanders, Belgium, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Batteries Charged Here sign
A tin/alloy sign advertising Exide batteries, mentioning that batteries can be Charged Here. *EDITORIAL USE ONLY*

Battery firing at Japanese positions - Burma
A Battery commanded by Major O.T. Hackett fires a 3.7 Howitzer (light artillery) at Japanese positions in the Burma Hills - circa 1945. The Battery is itself under fire

American Civil War
Federal guns of Battery Stevens used to bombard Fort Sumter during the American Civil War

A British heavy howitzer in action on the Western Front against an opposing German position

Howitzers in action, Western Front, WW1
Heavy howitzers in action on the Western Front, directed towards German trenches, First World War. 1914-1918

Lt Browning, Major Kinloch and Dr Francis Brett Young
Lieutenant Browning, Major Kinloch (Calcutta Volunteer Battery) and Dr Francis Brett Young in East Africa during WW1. circa 1916

LCC-LFB battery-electric pump-escape at Southwark HQ
An early electric wheeled ladder escape vehicle, a Cedes battery-driven pump/50 foot escape, based at Bow fire station, seen here in the drill yard of Southwark Headquarters

Belgian Artillery Battery in action - WWI
Belgian Artillery Battery in action - screened (partially!) by trees - early months of WWI. Date: circa 1914

Mortar Calculations - Fort Wright - Fishers Island, New York
Directing the range of the Mortars - Fort Wright - Fishers Island - New York, USA

Fattening Geese, France
Battery farming in 19th century France - keeping geese in mues to fatten them up to provide foie gras

Gunner W H Dugan, 6th Mountain Battery, Quetta, Balochistan, British India (now Pakistan) - commemorative card dated 20 June 1910. Date: 1910

Advert for Carters Electric Invalid Chair 1922
Suitable for invalids or disabled the electric wheelchair with battery at front. Date: 1922

The Saluting Battery, Valletta, Malta. Date: 1947

2nd Europa Advance Battery, Gibraltar, Victorian period. Date: late 19th century

Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878). Blowing up of the Turkish gun-boat Lutfi Djelil, as seen from the Russian battery at Braila (Romania). Engraving by Smeeton Tilly

New Brighton, The Wirral - The sands and Battery
The sands and Battery, New Brighton, The Wirral, Merseyside, England. Date: 1960s

Battery Hotel Morcambe
Battery Hotel and Gardens, Morcambe. The Battery Inn was built in 1863 and in 1900 it expanded into a larger building next door, when it became The Battery Hotel

Egyptian conflict with the British, 1882. Egypt. Alexandria. Egyptian battery of Krupp cannons at Mecks Fort. Engraving by Rico. Detail. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana, 1882

Egyptian conflict with the British, 1882. Egypt. Alexandria. Egyptian battery of Krupp cannons at Mecks Fort. Engraving by Rico. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana, 1882

Jhansi Fort and Elephant Battery, c. 1885-1887
Raja Deen Dayal (Indian, 1844-1905)

WW1 - Gun - L Battery at Nery
WW1 - A British Gun Battle of Nery, WW1, where L Battery, Royal Horse Artillery kept up a steady fire for two and a half hours, against a full battery of German artillery

George Morris inventor of the 12 volt electric Welsh Harp
George Morris inventor of the 12 volt portable electric Welsh Harp, testing his invention in the hills of Snowdonia, North Wales Date: 1988

WW1- L Battery in action at Nery
WW1 - L Battery Royal Horse Artillery in action at Nery - September 1, 1914

Early Motor Cars - diagram of first petrol-driven car
Early Motor Cars - diagram of the workings of the first petrol-driven car

German Tirpitz battery at Ostend - WW1
German Tirpitz battery at Ostend during the First World War

K battery, Royal Horse Artillery, London, probably circa 1900

Field Battery, 26th May 1917

WW1 - Field battery under camouflage screen - 26th May 1917

The Battery, Gwynfynydd Gold Mine, Dolgellau, Wales

Panorama from the Produce Exchange, New York, USA - view over The Battery (formerly Battery Park). Date: circa 1905

Elswick Battery probably during the Boer War

Tynemouth from Spanish Battery early 1900s

Battery Gardens, Sandown, Isle of Wight - Painted by William Carruthers Affleck for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Morecambe, Lancashire, viewed from Battery Hotel - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

The Heroic Stand of L Battery, RHA, at Nery, France
The Heroic Stand of L Battery, RHA, skirmish at Nery, northern France, part of the Retreat from Mons, 1 September 1914, First World War Date: 1915

Advert, Exide, the long life battery, the Exide girl by William Henry Barribal Date: 20th century

Redoubtable
la Marine Francaise Imperiale - Redoubtable, a central battery ship

War Preparations, Serbo-Bulgarian War
A battery (cannon) dragged by horses is placed by the Bulgarians on the heights of Pregladista, above Tsaribrod, in preparation for the Battle of Tsaribrod, November 25th 1885

Advert, Dr Lowder's Electro-Magnetic Socks - keep your feet warm and your circulation healthy Date: 1889

Advert, Dr Lowder's Magneto-Electric Battery
Advert, bizarre medical device, Dr Lowder's Magneto-Electric Battery Date: 1889

British soldiers on field telephones, WW1
British soldiers on field telephones in a concrete dugout, transmitting orders for battery ranges, Western Front, First World War. 1914-1918

Enfield 8000 Electric Car at a petrol station
An Enfield 8000 Electric Car at a petrol station, where a woman holds out an electric plug to the puzzled pump attendant

German battery destroyed by British artillery, WW1
German battery destroyed by British artillery, based on aeroplane observation conveyed to ground forces by wireless, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Nationalist Artillery; Spanish Civil War, 1939
Photograph showing a battery of 15.5 cm howitzers, used by the Nationalist army during their offensive against Catalonia; Spanish Civil War, 1939

The Valley of the Shadow of Death - caves on the Woronzoff Road, to the rear of the Allied 21-gun Battery Date: 1855

New York Harbour viewed from The Battery - showing Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. Date: circa 1920

British artillery battery on the heights above the sea, Gibr
Vintage 19th century photograph: British artillery battery on the heights above the sea, Gibraltar

Belgian Headstones Houthulst Belgian Military Cemetery
This War Cemetery is maintained by the War Graves Department of the Belgian MOD. It is on the edge of the Houthulst forest which Napoleon called he key to the Low Countries

Plaque to Canadian Artillery D21 Battery, Zonnebeke
The plaque is on the outside wall of the re-built church. The battery was stationed in Zonnebeke during Third Ypres, October-November 1917

Crimean War - the 21-gun battery before Sebastopol
Scene in the 21-gun battery before Sebastopol, Crimean War. 1855

No. 3 Commando Memorial Plaque, Merville Battery
The taking of the Battery was the task of the 9th Parachute Battalion, and despite a complicated plan that went very wrong from the first jumps at 0020 hours on D-Day

Electrical equipment. Electrical mirror 1, electroscope 2, electrometer 3, 4, battery 5, condesator 6 and electrophorus 7

Electrical equipment, 18th century. Medical machine for electrifying the teeth, thunder house, torpedo, brush, and connecting frame of the Teylerian battery

Hat maker ironing the brim of a hat made from beaver fur. In the background, an apprentice works the felt in a battery (hot-water kettle)

View of the town of Hobart, Tasmania, 1821
View of the town of Hobart, Tasmania, with 2, 700 inhabitants in 400 homes, 1821. Showing the government building, school, church, prison, battery and telegraph signals

Three Angle Golden Bell battery Chinese advertising poster. Long lasting and never leaks. Factory produced in Shanghai, China, c. 1940 Date: c. 1940

Whitehall Building, Battery Park, New York City, USA
Whitehall Building, Aquarium and Battery Park, New York City, USA. Date: circa 1912

Brazilians Take Curuzu
The capture of the Curuzu battery by the secondary corps of the Brazilian army, under the order of lieutenant-general Viscount of Porto-Alegre, on 3rd September 1866. Date: 3rd September 1866

The Defences of Callao
Canon Blakeley of the Santa-Rosa battery, being demonstrated or tested for manoeuvres. Date: 1866

Battery or Junin Tower
An artillery battery dubbed Junin Tower. Surrounded by girded metal barriers, a group of cannons are being demonstrated to watching military officers. Date: 1866

The Mexican Lancers charge the Illinois Soldiers 1847
A battery of Mexican lancers charge at the American soldiers in the distance, at the battle of Buena Vista. Date: 1847

Thomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison (1847 - 1931), American inventor and businessman, who has been described as Americas greatest inventor

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