Brave Collection

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by William McLaren
King Arthur welcomes the Green Knight into the Banqueting Hall and invites him to dismount and eat with the company

John Jack Travers Cornwell, Battle of Jutland
John Jack Travers Cornwell (1900-1916), posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his bravery on HMS Chester during the Battle of Jutland

HMS Good Hope in Great War Deeds, WW1
HMS Good Hope of the British Royal Navy going down with her last guns firing, in an action against overwhelming odds off the coast of Chile, South America

Propaganda poster: prime ministers statement
Second world war propaganda poster. Above a photograph of five brave airmen is a quotation from the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill: Never was so much owed by so many to so few

Grace Darling, rowing with her father
Grace Horsley Darling (1815 - 1842), daughter of the lighthouse keeper, William Darling, on the Farne Islands

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

Coastguards and civilians of Leysdown, Isle of Sheppey
Commemorative postcard, Heroes All

Suffragette Demonstration Rally Hyde Park
The Great Suffragette Demonstration held on 23rd July 1910. banners held aloft include Fortune Favours The Brave, Arise Go Forth & Conquer and the Emmeline Pankhurst banner. Date: 23rd July 1910

The Last Shot by Matania
A group of British seamen gunners straining to fire a final shot at a German ship as their own ship sinks beneath them

The brave Titanic engineers, including 14 of whom were lost
The Titanic engineers; fourteen of whom were lost in the 1912 disaster. 1. W. D Mackie junior fifth. 2. F. A Parsons, senior fifth. 3. P. Sloan, senior electrician. 4. H. Jupe, assistant electrician

Flora MacDonald, Scottish Jacobite heroine, friend and helper of Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie)

Mad Metal Robot
THE MAD ROBOT by William P McGivern. A brave man fires a ray-gun at an advancing metal robot with large claws and a brain encassed in a glass-domed head Date: 1944

WW2 poster, Back Them Up! Showing a British commando raid on a German-held port in Norway. Date: 1940s

A Rehearsal of the Wild West show
A series of sketches by Ralph Cleaver of rehearsals for Colonel Codys " Wild West" show at Olympia, including Sioux braves racing horses, cow girls and cowboys

WW2 greetings card, Corporal Joan Pearson
WW2 greetings card, Corporal J.D.M. Pearson, official war picture by Laura Knight, official war picture from the National Gallery

Blucher and Napoleon
Blucher the Brave extracting the Groan of Abdication from the Corsican Bloodhound

American Indians. Sitting Bull addressing a meeting of brave
Sitting was an inspirational Sioux Chief, who together with Crazy Horse, defeated Custer and tried to prevent the American Indians being forced into reservations

Grace Darling, lighthouse keeper's daughter
Grace Horsley Darling (1815 - 1842), daughter of the lighthouse keeper, William Darling, on the Farne Islands

Afghan Futtehabad 1879
At the battle of Futtehabad during the Afghan War, Lieutenant Hamilton of the Guide Corps is awarded the Victoria Cross for his brave cavalry charge

Lone British gunner near Mons, Belgium, WW1
The Last Gunner -- a lone British gunner of the Royal Field Artillery in action near Mons, Belgium, during the First World War. He carried on valiantly after all his colleagues had fallen

Royal Field Artillery in Great War Deeds, WW1
Captain Douglas Reynolds, Driver J H C Drain and Driver F Luke of the Royal Field Artillery, saving the gun from hostile fire at Le Cateau, for which they won the Victoria Cross

William Thompsons fight off Poole, Dorset, 30 May 1695. Thompson was a local fisherman whose fishing boat was fired on by a French privateer near the Isle of Purbeck

WWI - Wounded soldier in the arms of his nurse
WWI - Wounded soldier (who has lost his arm) in the arms of his nurse - Comrades in Arms. Date: circa 1917

Severn Tunnel Diver
The brave diver Alexander Lambert descending the shaft into the flooded tunnel. In Fleuss diving gear, he closed the headwall door and prevented further flooding

Rodolfo Gaona Jimenez, Mexican bullfighter
Rodolfo Gaona Jimenez (1888-1975), Mexican bullfighter, known as the Caliph de Leon. He moved to Spain in 1908. Date: circa 1910

Corporate J. L. Dawson VC
Corporal James Lennox Dawson VC of the Royal Engineers (1891-1967) pictured performing the action for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross in October 1915

Private John Caffrey VC
Illustration recording the VC action of Private John Joseph Caffrey VC (1891-1953) at La Brique, France in November 1915

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

Maps Wrens London
Christopher Wren seizes the opportunity of the Great Fire to draw up plans for a brave new London - which alas will be only partially realised. Date: 1666

The Maquis (French Resistance) attack a group of German soldiers. Date: 1944

Heroic deeds of the War - Corporal Josephine M C Robins
Heroic deeds of WW2 - Corporal Josephine M C Robins, a member of the Womens Auxiliary Air Force (WaF)

Victoria Cross - Lieutenant William Leefe Robinson
Victoria Cross posthumously awarded to John Travers Cornwell (1900-1916) - for his gallantry at the Battle of Jutland. Cornwell was a Boy Seaman First Class on H.M.S Chester

Admiral Raby wins the Victoria Cross
Commander Raby R.N

Red Army recruitment poster, showing a Soviet sailor and soldiers fighting: Forward to the Don!

Poster for a Military Exhibition at Earls Court
Poster advertising a Military Exhibition at Earls Court, London, depicting a brave British soldier, a British Lion, and Britannia

Allies - Brave Belgium by Archibald Wells
A Belgian cavalry man sits astride his horse against the backdrop of a combined Belgian and Union Jack flag, a symbol of the two countries combined loyalties during World War One

Warrior of the native American Indian Tribe, the Lipan, c. 18
Illustration showing a Lipan native American Indian brave on horseback, with head band and buckskin suit, carrying a rifle

Anti-Bourgeois Poster
A big brave communist worker fixes a poster on a wall while a contemptible little bourgeois capitalist in his top hat cowers in fear

14th Hussars - Colonel Brown Victoria Cross Re-enactment
Victoria Cross Re-enactment of the bravery of Colonel Edward Douglas Brown (Edward Douglas Browne-Synge-Hutchinson VC) (18611940) of the 14th Hussars - who

Starry Gazey Pie, Mousehole, Cornwall
A mouthwatering example of a Starry Gazey Pie, served up on Tom Bawcocks Eve (23 December) at Mousehole in Cornwall

Warrior Square, Hastings
A view of the square complete with promenaders strolling along the seafront. The sea is choppy with waves breaking against the sea-wall but a boating party brave it. Date: 1860s

Patriotic Postcard - Officer and Union Flag
For the Old Flag A World War One era officer, pointing his pistol toward the enemy. Standing up tall before the Union flag, for King and Country... Date: circa 1916

Orange at Waterloo
On the field of battle, the Prince of Orange bestows the medals hes wearing to reward his brave troops

Saving Swiss Souls
A brave English Salvationist preaches to the clientele of a Swiss tavern, but any moment now the police will arrive and accuse of her of breaching the peace

Sherlock Holmes - The Adventure of The Speckled Band. "Good-bye, and be brave." Date: 1892

Sancho IV of Castile (1258-1295). King of Castile
Sancho IV of Castile, so-called the Brave (1258-1295). King of Castile and Leon (1284-1295). Portrait. Engraving by Serra Pausas. Glorias Espanolas (Glories of Spain). Volume II

Westland Lynx HAS.3 ZD256
Royal Navy - Westland Lynx HAS.3 ZD256 (msn 265), of 815 Sqn Brave Flt, at RNAS Yeovilton on 12 July 1995. Date: 1995

Warrior or chief of the Timucua of Florida. He wears a feather headdress, copper bands on his arms and legs, his body is painted hideously, and he is armed with bow and arrow

Achilles, Greek warrior hero of Troy
Achilles, Son of Peleus and the Nereid Thetis, bravest of all the Greek warriors at Troy, and central character of Homer's Iliad

Warrior of the Iroquois Confederacy. In breechcloth and moccasins, armed with musket and ax, smoking a pipe tomahawk. Guerrier Iroquois. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J

Warrior of the Iroquois Confederacy. In animal skin cloak, breechcloth, mitasses and moccasins, holding a pipe tomahawk and casse-tete or mace, with ax in belt. Sauvage Iroquois

Declaration of war by the Quapaw Nation of Louisiana
A young warrior or brave paints a crossed arrows in red paint on a tree trunk. He wears a feather headdress and buck-skin robe, and is armed with musket, bow and quiver

A sheik rewards a brave youth in the Sahara, 18th century
Reward for bravery among the Mougeare (descendants of Portuguese and Arabs) nomadic people of the Sahara

Alfonso VI of Leon (1040-1109). King of Leon (1065-1070) and king of Castile and Leon (1072-1109. Called the Brave. Illustration by Llanta. Portrait. Lithography)

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

Agnes Reston (1771-1856), known as The Heroine of Matagorda, wife of Sergeant Reston of the 94th Regiment of Foot

An Incident in the Attack on Bomarsund, Crimean War, 21 June 1854. During the battle a shell landed on board. Charles Davis Lucas threw it back overboard, and it exploded before reaching water

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

Cartoon, A Dip in the Free Trade Sea -- satirical comment on the Conservative governments announcement that they did not intend to return to the policy of Protectionism

Alls Well! A British Bulldog, dedicated to the officers and men of the Royal Navy. Date: 1914

Biblical Tales by John Lawson, Daniel in the Lions Den

Juan Belmonte Garcia, Spanish bullfighter
Juan Belmonte Garcia (1892-1962), Spanish bullfighter. Date: circa 1910

Dutch wartime poster -- Be Brave, Be Stormers. Showing a young cadet in uniform, carrying a flag. Date: 1940s

The Maquis (French Resistance) share in the liberation of France. Date: 1944

Zuyder Zee, a revue, Cardiff and Swansea, Wales
Zuyder Zee, a revue by R E Jones Ltd, in Cardiff and Swansea, Wales -- None but the Brave Deserve the fair. early 20th century

Comic postcard, Little boy at the seaside Date: 20th century

Cover design, The Brave Tin Soldier, Pocket Series story booklet

WW2 - Salute To the Brave
An illustrated front cover for a WW2 story book, Salute To The Brace, written by Clementine Hunter. The image a folder of documents and a pistol. Date: circa 1940s

Salute The Soldier Music Cover
An illustrated WW2 music sheet cover for Salute The Soldier, by Eric Coates, specially composed for the National Savings Committee for the Salute The Soldier campaign

WW2 R. A. F. Greetings Card
A WW2 greetings card complete with a red, white and blue ribbon. The image portrays a young, smiling Royal Air Force serviceman. To my brave boy of the air. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 Greetings Card, R. A. F. Spitfires
A WW2 greetings card, Brave and gallant little Spitfires protect us day by day; This one to you comes winging, the best of wishes bringing, may good luck come your way

Alfonso X of Castile and Leon and his son Sancho IV
Alfonso X of Castile and Leon, called the Wise (1221-1284) and his son Sancho IV, called the Brave (1258-1295), king of Castile and Leon. Illustration by J. Alaminos. Chromolithography

Lord Roberts capturing the Sepoy Standard at Cawnpore (Kanpur), India, for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross Date: 1858

Glorious Gallantry of the Middlesex Regiment at Albuhera
The Glorious Gallantry of the Middlesex Regiment, the Die Hards, at the Battle of Albuhera, Peninsular War, 16 May 1811 Date: 1811

The First from the Lifeboat Date: circa 1890

Lifeboat rescue, and every soul was saved alive Date: circa 1890

Mother's Devotion by Alexander Rosell Date: 1902

Mieszko I of Poland and Boleslaw I the Brave
Mieszko I of Poland (935-992). Piast prince or duke of Poland from c.963. Boleslaw I the Brave (967-1025). He was the son of Mieszko I. Duke of Poland (992-1025) and the first king of Poland in 1025

Knight Poster
A poster design portraying a brave knight wearing armour, riding on a strong, white war horse, away from the castle which can be seen in the background

Lifesavers by Stettman. Date: circa 1908

Robert Falcon Scott, Terra Nova Expedition, Antarctic
Robert Falcon Scott Terra Nova Expedition - important archive of 52 negatives taken by Lt

Sancho IV of Castile (1258-1295), called the Brave. King of Castile, Leon and Galicia (1284-1295). Illustration by Llanta. Detail. Lithography. Cronica General de Espana

Lifeboat Brownies to the rescue Date: 1910

Heroic midshipman carrying ammunition to British fighters
Heroic midshipman carrying ammunition to hard-pressed British fighters Date: 1916

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