Bayonets Collection (page 2)

Winston Churchill inspecting troops, WW1
Winston Churchill, as Minister of Munitions, inspecting British troops in Germany after the end of the First World War. Date: C.1918

Naik Darwan Sing Negi in Great War Deeds, WW1
Naik Darwan Sing Negi of the Garhwal Rifles, Indian Army, leading round the traverses at Festubert on the Western Front, winning the Victoria Cross for his bravery

WW1 - Anzacs fighting near the Krithia heights, Gallipoli
WW1 - The Anzac troops gain fresh ground in Gallipoli as they storm the enemys line near the Krithia heights. The soldiers fight among the ridges of the road to Constantipole. Date: 1915

Patent Applied For, Heath Robinson WW1 cartoon
The Kitchener Boche-Bayoneter - an airy invention by William Heath Robinson. An uncharacteristically brutal invention suggesting that a trench sized board covered with bayonets be lowered

Swan Fountain Pen advertisement, World War One
Advertisement for Swan fountain pens the business mans pen...now the soldiers pen with the product placed in front of a silhouette of a battalion charging forward with bayonets fixed. Date: 1916

First day of the Somme - fixing bayonets
The Lancashire Fusiliers in a trench seen fixing bayonets, ready for action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme (1 July 1916). 1916

Soldiers in trench with fixed bayonets
A group of soldiers in a trench with fixed bayonets, during the First World War

War Budget cover - 1916
Front cover of The War Budget showing a British soldier, bayonet fixed, looking determinedly into the future as a New Year - 1916 - dawns. Date: 1915

WW2 - Sunset on Western front - British soldiers on guard. Date: circa 1942

Communist China - training exercise in water
Swimmers in the water in Communist China, taking part in a training exercise to build up their mental and physical strength. They are male and female, some of them carrying rifles. circa 1970

WW1 poster, US Shipping Board
Poster, Rivets are Bayonets, Drive Them Home! US Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation. circa 1918

Soldiers marching on a New Year card, carrying a large pudding. Date: circa 1890s

Zeebrugge, landing on the mole, 1918
" The men were magnificent" : landing on the mole from HMS Vindictive. The story of the landing on Zeebrugge Mole was vividly told in the account issued by the Admiralty

Germans / Attack England?
German troops, having overrun Belgium, are eager to attack England. Date: 1914

Koeniggratz - Bayonets
BATTLE OF KOENIGGRATZ (aka Sadowa) - bayonet charge by the Prussian infantry Date: 3 July 1866

Armed soldiers riding in a truck, Petrograd, Russia
Armed soldiers riding in a truck, Petrograd (St Petersburg), Russia, during the Revolution. Date: 1917

Duma messengers protected by guards, Petrograd, Russia
Duma messengers protected by armed guards, Petrograd (St Petersburg), during the Russian Revolution. The cars were used to travel at great speed around the city. Date: 1917

Three guardsmen in an envelope on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Michael O Leary, Irish Guards, in Great War Deeds, WW1
Lance-Corporal Michael O Leary of the Irish Guards, practically capturing the enemys position by himself and saving a British company by charging barricades

Two soldiers at a camp in winter. Date: circa 1940s

WW1 - India for the King
WW1 - Indian army fight as part of the British empire. An Indian from the Indian calvary and two other soldiers, charge with full force to fight for the King. Date: 1914

WW1 - Russian Infantry on the march
WW1 - A portrait presenting an army whose spirits could not be broken after fighting, from being wounded and watching death

WW1 - Night attack by the Turks on the Anzacs at Gallipoli
WW1 - The Battle of Chunuk Bair - Fought between the Ottoman defenders and troops of the British Empire. At the cliff faces at Gaba Tepe, the Turks attack the Australian lines at night

A Daring Frontal Attack on a Bomb Dropper, WW1
Humorous cartoon by William Heath Robinson showing an attempt by the British to mount an aerial attack upon a German airship. Date: 1915

Highlanders practising bayonet work at base, WW1
Soldiers in a highland regiment learning how to use bayonets on dummies which swing from a cross-beam. Date: 1918

Bayonet display at a recruiting meeting, WW1
Two army officers engage in friendly combat in order to attract new recruits at a recruitment meeting in Trafalgar Square in December 1915. Date: 1915

Storming of Heudicourt Village
Following a short artillery barrage, British troops rush the German entrenchments stretched across the street in the French village of Heudicourt

Soldiers in action on Western Front, WW1
Soldiers in action on the Western Front, firing their guns. Date: 1918

My Magazine cover - British WW1 soldier
Front cover of the childrens title, My Magazine featuring a British infantry soldier marching in profile. 1918

Charge of French Alpine Chasseurs in Alsace, WW1
The Chasseurs Alpins, the famous French mountain riflemen carrying out a dashing charge on skis at Hermannsweiler Kopf in Alsace

Trench Scene- Easier Said than Done
A shell if falling near a trench, while one soldier has hiccups, and is asking the soldier on the right " Say or doing something to startle me, Arry"

Bystander - Making assurance doubly sure
An illustration showing a sergeant teaching his soldiers how to stab someone with a bayonet to maximise the effect of the stab by twisting the bayonet, in preparation for fighting in WW1. Date: 1916

Those Raiders at the Seat of War by Bruce Bairnsfather
Those Raiders at the Seat of War " I wish the ell you d put a cork on that blinkin pin of yours, Bert!" A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander Date: 1917

Coming to the Point by Bruce Bairnsfather
Coming to the Point " Lets ave this pin of yours a minute. I ll soon ave these winkles out of ere" A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander Date: 1916

Onion-whittling by Heath Robinson
More underhand ideas from the Germans to defeat their British foe imagined by William Heath Robinson cartoon. The Germans utilise biological weapons; row of onions

The Outflanking Machine by Heath Robinson
In this Heath Robinson cartoon, we have the steady advance of a bayonet wall bearing down on the German flank. This time, however, the bayonets are carried by a simple train engine

Beechams advertisement by Bruce Bairnsfather
A Good Point to Remember. Advertisement for Beechams Pills featuring a humorous illustration by Bruce Bairnsfather of a British soldier, wrapped up warm against the cold

Spring in Silhouette by H. L. Oakley
An allegorical silhouette by Captain H. L. Oakley contrasting the attraction of spring (complete with a pipe playing Pan and a nymph or fairy) and a spring offensive, showing a British soldier

Japanese occupy Shanghai
Following bombing from the air, and artillery bombardment of Shanghai, Japanese troops move in to the ruined city, with bayonets fixed, to mop up Chinese resistance Date: 1937

A thrilling charge, WWI by Cyrus Cuneo
A charge of Highland soldiers with bayonets fixed during an attack, World War I. Date: 1916

Repulsing a frontal attack, WWI by Cyrus Cuneo
British soldiers, armed with rifles and bayonets, scrambling over the top during an enemy attack. Date: 1916

Cartoon, Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum, WW1
Cartoon, Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum, showing a grotesque, pantomime ogre-like Kaiser Wilhelm II wielding a club, with blood dripping from the club

Ermenonville battle 1914
A fierce hand-to-hand encounter between a HIghland regiment and a German unit at the usually peaceful location of the woods and ancient artificial fishponds at Ermenonville, northern France. 1914

Edward, Prince of Wales, visiting Western Front, WW1
Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) inspecting a battalion on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

German soldiers advancing through cornfield, WW1
German soldiers advancing through a cornfield with bayoneted rifles during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Russo-Japanese War, Awards Ceremony
Several Russian soldiers resieve medals for their valiant efforts during the (1904 to 1905) Russo-Japanese War. Date: circa 1905

Austrian soldiers marching along a country road, WW1
Austro-Hungarian soldiers marching along a country road during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

The Bonus Army Camp Destroyed: Use of Tear Gas
Use of tear gas bombs by United States troops against war veterans in the clearnance of the Bonus Army encampment at Washington

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