Camouflage Collection (page 2)

Suggestion by William Heath Robinson for defence of London, a spinning platform land with camouflaged anti-aircraft guns. Date: 1941

Defence during the summer months from the beach, home guards hiding with their gun ready. Date: 1941

Trying to carry on as usual! Tennis players camouflaged from above in case of invasion. Date: 1941

WW II - US Airforce crew return to USA - Monotonous Maggie
World War II - US Airforce crew prepare for return to USA following end of war in Europe and possible redeployment in Japan. Bomber named Monotonous Maggie

Huge blinds used to camouflage a factory, Sept 1939
Huge dark blinds used to camouflage an entire factory on an A-road just outside of London. Blackout regulations were imposed two days before the outbreak of war to make the factory less visible to

Precautionary camouflaging of tents, September 1939
A group of people camouflage a tent in the countryside to protect it from potential air raids, following the outbreak of the war

Minesweepers in the North Sea, WW1
Minesweepers in the North Sea, First World War. 1914-1918

Poster, Personal Concealment, WW2
Poster, Personal Concealment, learn to see and know how the enemy sees you. Date: 1941

American poster, Shoot Ships to Germany, WW1
American poster, design by Adolph Treidler, Shoot Ships to Germany and help America Win, First World War. 1917

Convoys in Peril, by Claude Muncaster, WW1
Convoys in Peril, by Claude Muncaster, First World War. Showing a British freighter dead in the water after a torpedo attack, with the crew escaping by lifeboats. 1914-1918

Matilda escapes Oxford wearing a white cloak
In 1141, Matilda was trapped in Oxford on a snowy winter night. Stephens solders were all around. When the food ran out she put on a large white cloak and escaped over the wall

German manoevers pre-WWII
Dummy tank of the Reichwehr, camouflaged and concealed in the forest during the 1928 German Army manoeuvers. Date: 1928

Curtiss P-36A Hawk 38-001 and North American X-10 GM-19307
Curtiss P-36A Hawk 38-001 (msn 12415, call-sign 69 ) in 1940 war game special camouflage colours, in the collection of the National United States Air Force Museum, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

WW2 pop-up Christmas card (inside), May Joy-stick to you, Happy Landings! Date: circa 1942

Armstrong Whitworth A. W. 38 Whitley bomber
The Armstrong Whitworth A.W.38 Whitley was one of three British twin-engined, front line medium bomber types that were in service with the Royal Air Force (RAF)

Royal Air Force Captured Messerschmitt Bf 110C-5 AX772 (Luftwaffe 5F-CM of $(F)/14) (W.Nr. 2177) Buit by Gothaer Waggonfabrik AG 5F-CM was based at Cherbourg

Haig and his victorious commanders arriving at Dover
Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig and his fellow victorious commanders arriving at the port of Dover aboard a vessel painted with jazz camouflage at the end of World War One. Date: 1918

Sub Machine Gun, Owen, 9 Mm Mk I
Owen Mk I (or I/42) 9 mm sub machine gun, 1943 (c). Wooden butt and bakelite grips. Painted in jungle camouflage. The Owen was an indigenous Australian design developed in 1942

WW2 Christmas card with plane and crew
WW2 pop-up Christmas card with plane and crew -- wishing you the best of luck. Date: circa 1942

Armstrong Whitworth Whitley medium bomber plane
Armstrong Whitworth AW38 Whitley British front line medium bomber plane with two 800hp Siddeley Tiger VIII engines, used during the Second World War. Date: 1937-1945

Cat-Moo-Flage by William Heath Robinson
An intelligent use of camouflage for exposed positions in the metropolitan area. A not entirely practical solution for foiling enemy raiders during the First World War. Date: 1918

Martin Baker M. B. 5 aeroplane
Martin Baker M.B.5 aeroplane in camouflage colours. 1940s

Armstrong-Whitworth Whitley Mk. V aeroplane
Armstrong-Whitworth Whitley Mk. V Z6625 aeroplane in camouflage colours. 1940s

Dummy injured soldier used during training, WW1
A dummy injured soldier used during training at Camouflage School, Kensington Gardens, during the First World War. The Germans would dress up a dummy in captured khaki to look like a British soldier

Paratroopers of 2nd Parachute Regiment near Port Stanley
Photograph showing paratroopers of 2nd Parachute Regiment near Port Stanley following the ceasefire order, 14 Jun 1982. Note the new fibre helmets, with and without camouflage

Royal Navy submarine with zebra stripe camouflage, WW1
Royal Navy submarine towards the end of the First World War, with experimental zebra stripe camouflage. Date: circa 1918

Gloster Meteor F4 EE454 in standard camouflage
Gloster Meteor F4, EE454, in standard camouflage

Phyllium sp. Oriental leaf insect
Leaf insects are characterised a green or brown, flattened body which closely resembles the foliage on which they live

Acronicta psi, grey dagger moth caterpillar
Grey dagger moth caterpillars feed on many types of tree and shrub including; birch, lime and hawthorn. The adult moths display black dagger-like markings on their wings

Fairey Battle K9182 aeroplane in camouflage paint. 1940s

Captured German 21cm howitzers, WW1
Captured German 21cm howitzers at the end of the First World War. Date: November 1918

8 inch Howitzer and gunners near Carnoy, France, WW1
An 8 inch Mark V Howitzer in a camouflaged emplacement near Carnoy, northern France, during the Battle of Albert, First World War. The gunners are all looking at the camera. Date: July 1916

Australian soldiers with dummy tank, Le Catelet, WW1
Soldiers of the Australian 4th Divisional Engineers at Le Catelet, northern France, with a dummy tank designed to mislead the Germans about Allied troop movements towards the end of the First World

Firing a heavy howitzer in France, WW1. 1914-1918

Richard Levin Working on Camouflage
Richard Levin, Director of the British Industrial Design Group, demonstrates with models his idea to protect cars from air raids by having them camouflaged half for the country and half for the town

Royal Army Ordnance Corps during the Gulf War
One of 40 colour photographs relating to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps during the Gulf War, 1990-1991. Date: 1991

One of our tanks entering the A Squadron leaguer at THAON
Photograph: One of our tanks entering the A Squadron leaguer at THAON. Shows a tank driving, covered in camouflage. From a photograph album containing 210 photographs compiled by Maj Wilfred Herbert

Concealed machine gun position in the jungle Date: unknown

WW2 military re-enactment, Hampshire, England
WW2 military re-enactment in Hampshire, England. circa 1968

Cartoon, Soldier in camouflage uniform, WW1
Cartoon, Soldier in camouflage uniform. Hes going on leave to Paris in this outfit, as he doesn t have a permanent pass, and this way the cops won t spot him. Date: 1917

Cartoon, Camouflaging a lorry, WW1
Cartoon, Camouflaging a lorry in rather colourful shades. One of the men says he painted miniatures before the war. Date: 1917

Russian gunners at the eastern front, Russia, WW1
Russian gunners at the eastern front during the First World War, their guns camouflaged with sacking and straw against aerial observation. Date: circa 1917

Costumes from The Dazzle Ball
Attendees of The Dazzle Ball in costumes inspired by dazzle camouflage from the First World War, at the Albert Hall, March 12 1919. Date: 1919

Chelsea Arts Dazzle Ball
People dancing in dazzle costume at The Dazzle Ball, Albert Hall, March, 1919 Date: 1919

Three Arts Ball at The Albert Hall
An impression of the Dazzle Ball at The Albert Hall, 1919 Date: 1919

Sketch cover - striped parasol and stockings, dazzle fashion
Zebra effects in hosiery and parasol. Front cover of The Sketch demonstrating the popular vogue for the stripe, influenced in part by the success of dazzle camouflage during the First World War

Dazzle style fashion on the beach, 1919
Dazzle fashion, inspired by the dazzle camouflage pioneered by the British Navy during the First World War, seen in evidence on a beach in 1919, complete with matching parasol and head scarves

Dazzle painting, WW1
Photograph showing the experimental theatre on which dazzle designs, to camouflage ships were tested, The officer on the right is observing a model through a periscope

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