Battlefield Collection

The Cross Bearers, WW1 battlefield by Matania
British soldiers on a devastated battlefield rescuing a figure of Jesus Christ and his cross from a ruined church. Date: 1918

The Great Sacrifice by James Clark, WW1
The Great Sacrifice by James Clark, originally published in the 1914 Christmas number of The Graphic

WW1 - Trench map from a soldiers war diary showing the Somme Battlefield with information gleaned from captured German Prisoners

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

Army Chaplain in Great War Deeds, WW1
An Army Chaplain holding a night service on the battlefield, with a packing case as an altar and a tin mug as a chalice

Napoleonic Wars (1796-1815). BATTLE OF THE ROTHIERE (1814-02-01). Napoleon, at the head of a blue division of the guard, recovers the hamlet of Giberie. Colored engraving

Brooding Soldier - Canadian Memorial, Vancouver Corner - WWI
The memorial commemorates the 18, 000 Canadian soldiers who withstood the first gas attack on April 22/24 1915 (Battle of Ypres), suffering over 2, 000 casualties

The Unknown Warrior - scene at Westminster Abbey, 11th November 1920. Fortunino Matania, Ri (1881-1963)

Archers on horseback, Central Asia
Warrior archers (Batyrs) on horseback, Central Asia (Kazakhstan area)

The Canadians at Ypres, 1915, depicting the Princess Patricias Canadian Light Infantry at Bellewaerde Ridge on 8th May 1915

German propaganda postcard, Our Kaiser, WW1
German propaganda postcard, Our Kaiser, depicting Kaiser Wilhelm II in uniform during the First World War, with a flag flying behind him. Date: 1914-1918

Fight for a Turkish Standard, c. 1905, by Jozef Brandt (1841
Jozef Brandt (1841-1915). Polish painter. Fight for a Turkish Standard, c.1905. National Museum. Krakow. Poland

Pedro de Alvarado y Contreras (ca. 1485 or ca. 1495-1541). Spanish conquistador and governor of Guatemala. Utatlan battle, 1524. 18th century engraving. Colored

Gordon Highlander interrogated by German Officers
I won t - After a raid on the British lines in Northern France, a Gordon Highlander is being interrogated by German Officers.. Fortunino Matania, Ri (1881-1963)

Repulsing the famous Prussian guard at Ypres. With the British Army on the Western Front - published in 1916 for Tatler and Sphere, though the illustration was first done in 1914

Lance-Corporal Jarvis in Great War Deeds, WW1
Lance-Corporal Charles A Jarvis of the Royal Engineers, winning the Victoria Cross by fixing a firing charge for the demolition of a bridge, under heavy fire

Bombardier E-11A Global Express 11-9001
United States Air Force - Bombardier E-11A Global Express 11-9001 (MSN 9001) BD-700-1A10 Global Express used as a platform for the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node. Date: circa 2015

Malik-I-Maidan at the Bijapur Fort, Karnataka, India
The Malik-I-Maidan at the Bijapur Fort, Karnataka, India

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

Edward III on a battlefield
Edward III, King of England (1312-1377, reigned 1327-1377). Seen here on a battlefield in France. Date: 1312 - 1377

Church of England Service on a WWI battlefield for troops heading into the trenches - the Chaplain is officiating from a small field altar. Date: circa 1915

WW1 - The ?Buried? Quick; and the Dead - battlefield sketch
WW1 - ?The ?Buried? Quick; and the Unburied Dead - facsimile battlefield sketch from the Western front by Frederic Villiers

WW2 - The achievements of the 14th Army in Burma

A soldier fighting against Death. At his feet
The Sergeant. A soldier fighting against Death. At his feet lie the bodies of other warriors. In the background is shown a battlefield and a skeleton playing a drum

Battle of Dreux (December 19, 1562). French Wars
Battle of Dreux (19 December 1562)

French Revolutionary Wars. Battle of Jemappes (6 November 1792)

Battle of Mislata (9 December 1348). King Peter
Battle of Mislata (9 December 1348). The troops of Peter the Ceremonious (1319-1387) fought against the Valencian Unionists, defeating them and taking the city of Valencia

Iberian peninsula. Battle of Calatanazor (July)
Iberian peninsula. Battle of Calatanazor (July 1002)

Combat between the Horatii and the Curiatii, 7th century BC
The mortal combat between the Horatii triplets from Rome and the Curiatii triplets from Alba Longa, 7th century BC. The last Roman Horatius brother emerges victorious before the watching armies

Kidnapped Sabine women stop the war between the Romans and Sabin
The kidnapped Sabine women intervene to stop the war between the Sabines led by king Titus Tatius and the Romans under Romulus, 8th century BC

French lord holding the royal oriflamme, 1370
Lord of the court of King Charles V of France holding the oriflamme, royal battle standard.In plumed helm with visor, chainmail hauberk, plate armour breastplate, greaves, tunic

Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne, 1611-1675, French general and later Marshal General of France

Coronation of Henry VII at Bosworth Field, 1485
Henry Tudor, 2nd Earl of Richmond, crowned King Henry VII of England at the Battle of Bosworth Field, 1485. In full plate armour with shield and sword, surrounded by his troops

Two skeletons of Death attack a German general on horseback. One skeleton on a spectral horse fires a musket, while another hooks him with a scythe. The General. Der General

Anglo-Saxon soldiers flee from the battlefield after the Battle of Hastings. English soldiers with maces flee on foot or on stolen horses

Battle of Constantine against Maxentius (Milvian Bridge)
Battle of Constantine against Maxentius (Battle of Milvian Bridge). It took place in 312 between Constantine I the Great (272-337) and Maxentius (276-312), with victory for Constantine's army

Battle of the Hydaspes (326 BC). Battle between Alexander the Great and King Porus, ruler of the Indian kingdom of Paurava

Battle of the Granicus (334 BC). 19th-century engraving
Battle of the Granicus (May 334 BC). The Macedonian King Alexander the Great defeated the Persians. Engraving by A. Roca based on a painting by Charles Lebrun. Historia Universal, by Cesar Cantu

Martin Zurbano (1788-1845). Spanish guerrilla fighter. He fought in the First Carlist War (1833-1840) on the Isabeline side (Liberal side). Combat action by Zurbano. Engraving

First Carlist War (1833-1840). The front in Valencia
History of Spain. First Carlist War (1833-1840). The front in Valencia. Battle of Chiva (2nd April 1836). On 31 March 1836, the town of Chiva was occupied by General Cabrera's Carlist troops

Death of General Richard Montgomery - Battle of Quebec
American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). Invasion of Canada, 1775

A Mediterranean city besieged by the Ottomans. Unknown artist. Oil on canvas. National Museum of Fine Arts. Valletta. Malta

Conquest of Egypt by the British troops. 1882
Conquest of Egypt by the British troops, 1882. British positions at Ramleh line, in front of those held by the Egyptians in the Mahmudieh Canal. Engraving by Rico

WW1 poster, Vive la France! All for one and one for all

The Strongest.. Fortunino Matania, Ri (1881-1963)

Buman (Illig Qaghan), founder of Kaghanate Bum�an (Illig Qaghan)
Bumin Khagan (Illig Qaghan, reigned 551-552), founder of the Turkic Kaghanate. This form of government was typical for the Eurasian Steppe from the 6th to the 10th century. circa 6th century

Ancient Kazakh warriors (Batyrs), Kazakhstan
Ancient Kazakh warriors (Batyrs) in battle dress on horseback, with Turkic military equipment and armour, Kazakhstan

The Illustrated London News Election Map - 1906 - The electoral battlefield at a glance: Candidates and Constituencies by A Hugh Fisher. Date: 1906

Battle of Arbelas or Battle of Gaugamela (331 BC). Combat between Alexander the Great and the Persian King Darius III. Painting by Jose del Castillo (1737-1793)

The Battle of Blenheim (or Blindheim), Hochstadt, Germany, 13 August 1704, part of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714). Date: 1704

Charge of French cavalry at the Battle of Neerwinden or Landen, in the Spanish Netherlands (present-day Belgium), 29 July 1693, part of the Nine Years War (1688-1697). Date: 1693

Sir Hector Maclean of Duart, 2nd Baronet of Morvern, leading the charge at the Battle of Inverkeithing, Fife, Scotland

Charge of the Clan Maclean infantry (a Highland Scottish clan) at the Battle of Kilsyth, near Stirling, Scotland, 15 August 1645, during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms

Oliver Cromwell leading the English New Model Army against a Scottish army led by David Leslie, 1st Lord Newark, at the Battle of Dunbar, Scotland, 3 September 1650

The Battle of Towton, West Riding of Yorkshire, fought in a snowstorm on 29 March 1461, during the Wars of the Roses (1455-1487). It was a Yorkist victory. Date: 1461

Corporal John Shaw of the 2nd Life Guards fighting French cuirassiers at the Battle of Waterloo, 18 June 1815

Ancient Germanic warriors on a battlefield. Formations of cavalry, infantry and other troops behind wheeled vehicles. Warrior at left with winged helmet, sword, shield, fur cape and tunic

Ancient Germanic cavalry. They wear helmets, capes, pants and socks, and carry severed heads, lances and shields. From Philipp Cluvers Germania Antiqua. Guerrieri Germani a cavallo

Ypres Battlefield Markers and signs
Over the 40 years that we have been writing about these battlefields, there has been many attempts to signpost the places of interest

Skeleton of Death about to spear a Swiss soldier on a battlefield, as another skeletal drummer advances behind them

Oliver Cromwell on horseback, English Civil War
Oliver Cromwell on horseback, preparing to go into battle during the English Civil War. circa 1640s

General Joseph Gallieni, French Army officer, WW1
General Joseph Simon Gallieni (1849-1916), French Army officer and administrator. He served in the Franco-Prussian War and the First World War

WW1 - Ypres - Hell Fire Corner, British Demarcation Stone
WW1 - Ypres - Hell Fire Corner on the Menin Road, British Demarcation Stone - the inscription reads (in English): " Here the invader was brought to a standstill"

Cartoon, French and German soldiers, WW1
Cartoon, French and German soldiers. A French soldier sticks a bayonet into a German soldier, telling him that he has sung the socialist Internationale for twenty years

Dead German soldiers Ypres 31st July 1917

Seaforth Highlanders roll call after the opening battle on the Somme

German machine gunner at Beaurevoir France 12th October 1918

Dead British soldiers Chipilly France 9th August 1918

A German soldier at Beaumont Hamel in November 1916

Canadian machine gunners at Passchendaele on 11th November 1917

Plan of the Battle of Prestonpans

Map of Prestonpans Battlefield

Plan of the Battle of Culloden

Map of Culloden Battlefield

Culloden Moor Memorial, Victorian period

German WW1 Cemetery at Sailly-Sur-La-Lys 12th October 1918

Ypres Belgium WW1 3rd September 1917

Dead British soldiers on the battlefield near Heule, Belgium, 15th October 1918

British soldiers Heule Battlefield Belgium 15th October 1918

Canadian troops in a Somme trench in 1916

Canadian troops in a Somme trench going over the top in September 1916

Aerial view of German use of gas during WW1

Pilckem Ridge Battlefield Ypres Belgium 31st July 1917 WW1

Culloden Moor Inverness Victorian period

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