Battery Collection (page 5)

Cigarette manufacturing machines at Arcadia Works
Cigarette manufacturing machinery at the Arcadia Works of the Carreras Cigarette Company, each of which could produce 50, 000 cigarettes per hour. Date: 1932

East Battery, Charleston, South Carolina, USA, with the Ashley River and Charleston Harbour on the left. Date: circa 1908

US Transport column during Battle of the Bulge
An aerial view of a US transport column moving through the snow in the Ardennes forest, towards an artillery battery, during the Battle of the Bulge Date: 1944-1945

Soldiers commandeering horses at Bexhill, WW1
Soldiers from the 6th Sussex battery commandeering horses at Bexhill in the early weeks of the First World War. Date: 1914

Group photo, 69 Battery RFA Remount Riders, India
Group photo, 69 Battery RFA (Royal Field Artillery) Remount Riders, Rawalpindi, India. 1906

Provision of a battery to besiege (first half of the 18th c.). Engraving. SPAIN. ARAGON. Zaragoza. Academia General Militar (General Military Academy)

South Coast of England - Folkstone harbour from Battery Terr
Victorian Glass Lantern slide from a series on the South Coast of England - Folkstone harbour from Battery Terrace. Part of box 218 Boswell Collection; listed, Boswell Collection Date: circa 1890s

Gunners working through German gas attack by Matania
A storm of poison gas shells breaking over a British battery of 18 pounders, showing the gunners working to serve their guns while wearing gas masks. Date: 1918

British Gunners under fire
A British artillery battery, on its way to take up a position further forward, is stopped in its tracks by an enemy shell which lands in the road immediately ahead. Date: July 1917

Distribution of cigarettes at the front, WW1
A battery commander distributing the contents of a parcel of cigarettes amongst his men at the Front at Christmas time. According to The Sphere

Indian battery gun squad during World War I
Indian soldiers under General Smuts in the East African campaign during the First World War. Date: 1916

Ladder, carriage frame and runners (battery operated). Showing the Miles mounting quadrant

Cpt Francis Grenfell VC (9th Lancers) - Retrieving the guns
The Taking of the Guns. Captain Francis Grenfell of the 9th Lancers retrieving the guns of 119th Battery Royal Field Artillery at Audregnies, during the Battle of Mons, 24th August 1914

A watery image - near Albert, Somme, c 1916
A watery image - near Albert, Somme, c. 1916. 301166 Sergeant Donald Mcritchie, 36Th Battery, 9Th Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force

A conversation between two Cannucks - one with his arm in a sling. 301166 Sergeant Donald Mcritchie, 36Th Battery, 9Th Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force

A Sergeant addressing a rank of soldiers (all with surprised expressions). 301166 Sergeant Donald Mcritchie, 36Th Battery, 9Th Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force

La Targette - Howie next our dugout, dated September 14th 17. Pencil sketch for Digging in the 3rd Battery behind Loos. - No. 4698

La Targette - Digging in the 3rd Battery behind Loos (see drawing dated September 14th 1917). 313870 Gunner Vivian John Cummings, Born 31.07.1875, 3Rd Canadian Division, Canadian Expeditionary Force

The Battery, Wagon Line - A Nocturne
The Battery, Wagon Line. A Nocturne. Captain Gilbert Holiday, Royal Field Artillery (1879-1937). Holidays Early Life Was Spent In St

Howitzers shelling German positions, WW1
Battlefield panorama showing a battery of Howitzers shelling German positions at Cambrai in 1918. By Lieutenant Douglas Sharpus Andrews, SGA, ARCA (1885-1944), Royal Garrison Artillery. 1918

British troops bringing in a German battery under fire, WW1
British troops bringing in a German battery under fire, by B Hall

Captain Francis Grenfell retrieving the guns at Audregnies
The Taking of the Guns. Captain Francis Grenfell of the 9th Lancers retrieving the guns of 119th Battery Royal Field Artillery at Audregnies, during the Battle of Mons, 24th August 1914

Capture of Cambrai, Rumilly, WW1
Capture of Cambrai, Rumilly - 6.30 am, 8th October, 1918. 41st Brigade of 2nd Division Artillery in action and 16th Battery RFA advancing in close support of infantry

German battery under a searchlight, 1914
The searchlight in operation - a German battery thrown into relief by a searchlight of the Allied armies in the Aisne region of France. They make frantic efforts to escape the ghostly beam. Date: 1914

German 42cm guns bombarding Antwerp
German 42cm guns and Austrian howitzers bombarding Antwerp in autumn 1914. 1914

British gunners at work, Royal Garrison Artillery, 1914
British gunners at work with the 60-prs in the vineyard district of France in October 1914. Firing the 60-pr guns of the Royal Garrison Artillery against a German position

Grand procession to Edinburgh Castle
A grand procession to Edinburgh Castle during a visit of King George IV to the city. The procession began at Holyrood. On arrival at the castle the king waved his hat from the battlements of the Half

French artillery ammunition field depot 1917
Carrying shells forward to the batteries, 155mm and 220mm projectiles. In a short distances of the battle line in Oise on the French front, French soldier carry on their shoulders a battery

Gun battery, Gibraltar, Mediterranean
Gun battery on Gibraltar, Mediterranean. Date: late 19th century

Royal Australian Heavy Battery, Western Front, WW1
Men of the Royal Australian Heavy Battery in action on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Shell hole used for gun position, Western Front, WW1
A shell hole is used for a gun position of an advanced British battery on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

British motor machine gun battery, Western Front, WW1
A British motor machine gun battery leaving camp in answer to a signal on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Simla Horse Show
Pack mules on parade. A winning pair of pack mules representing the 3rd Light Battery, at the Simla Horse Show, India. Date: 1937

Advert for Pye Portable Radio 1930
Pye Portable Radio... what a world of difference that one word makes. Ask your radio dealer. He will tell you of the magnificent reputation of the Pye Portable

Oxford Street Store
The Medical Battery Companys Electropathic & Zander Institute at 52 Oxford Street. Date: 1889

Advert for Portable hand-held lamps and torch 1902
No wires, no liquids, no acid and no danger, portable hand-held battery operated lamp and torch. 1902

Havana, Cuba - The Old Fort opposite the harbour Date: 1947

Malta - Valletta - The saluting battery Date: circa 1920s

Horse & Soldier of the 116th Battery - Royal Field Artillery
Horse and Soldier of the 116th Battery - Royal Field Artillery - performing at the Royal Naval and Military Tournament at Olympia, London

British Mortar Battery in action at Landikhana, NWFP Date: circa 1920s

Malta - Saluting Battery, Valletta - WWI era
Malta - Saluting Battery, Valletta. Malta was not on the front line of World War I (unlike World War II) but did participate in many ways nevertheless

Georgia - Batumi - Demolished Artillery Battery Date: circa 1920

Westland 30 N4499N of Pan Am over New York
Westland 30, N4499N, of Pan Am, over New York. The aircraft operated a service between Manhattan (Battery Park/World Trade Center) and John F. Kennedy and Newark airports. c. December 1984. Date: 1984

Lord Robertss Army advancing towards Johannesburg: 84th Battery and Balloon Corps. Boer War

Battery of wind turbines in an electric power system, Federal Power Commission, designed by P H Thomas

Bairds Noctovisor
John Logie Baird demonstrates his Noctovisor. The military were very interested in developing this technology for their own purposes. Date: circa 1929

LCC-LFB Mercedes battery-electric turntable ladder
One of four similar turntable ladders (TL) which the London Fire Brigade had in service at this time

LCC-LFB Battery-electric pump escape
An electric-driven escape van at the Brigade headquarters in Southwark Bridge Road SE1. The batteries were stored under the bonnet and weighed about two tons

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