Civilian Collection (page 9)

Join now The office of civilian defense needs you for decontamination squads. Poster encouraging civilians to join civil defense squads, showing a man in uniform spraying a building

Train to be a nurses aide Phone your boro Civilian Defense Volunteer Office. Poster encouraging women to become nurses aides for the Civilian Defense Volunteer Office

Cools-Lartigues visiting scout training course, Dominica
Sir Alfred Cools-Lartigue and Lady Lartigue, local dignitaries, visiting a preliminary scout training course in Dominica, West Indies. 1950s

Sketches of people by Reverend Baden Powell (1796-1860), father of Robert Baden Powell. The main subject is a Before and After representation of an unemployed man in civilian clothes (right)

Scouts on parade for Commissioner, Grenada, West Indies
Scouts on parade for the Island Commissioner in Grenada, West Indies. 1949

Metropolitan police dog handler training dog in field
A Metropolitan Police dog handler training an Alsatian dog in a field. The handler is in civilian clothes, playing the role of a criminal, and has just fired a gun near the dogs head

Metropolitan Police officers in an informal group photograph
A large group of Metropolitan Police officers in an informal group photograph, in a back garden or yard with hanging baskets above them

Metropolitan Police communications control box
A man in civilian clothes in a Metropolitan Police communications control box. He is surrounded by communications equipment, is wearing headphones and holding a speaker in his hand. Date: early 1930s

Metropolitan Police group photograph
A Metropolitan Police group photograph -- most of the men are in uniform, with three men in civilian dress, and two boys. Date: circa 1885

Poster advertising the Territorial Army. Lets be prepared to defend the peace we re working to win. Volunteer with me for the Territorial Army, 9 divisions strong, with modern equipment

Street scene in Austria, WW1
Street scene in Austria around the time of the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Sultan Hussein Kamel of Egypt, and WW1 poem
A portrait of Sultan Hussein Kamel of Egypt (1853-1917), who ruled from 1914-1917, during the British protectorate. On either side of him is a poem by Sidney Low, entitled The Martyrs

Civilian refugees leaving Ypres, Belgium, WW1
Civilian refugees leaving Ypres, Belgium, during the First World War. Date: 2 November 1914

Civilian refugees near Ghent, Belgium, WW1
Civilian refugees resting at the side of a rail track near Ghent, Belgium, during the First World War. Date: 9 October 1914

Serbian refugees during retreat, Macedonia, WW1
Serbian refugees during the retreat, in Macedonia during the First World War. Date: 1915

Belgian civilians on a quayside, WW1
Belgian civilians on a quayside during the First World War. Some of them are looking upwards, and a soldier at the centre is pointing a rifle. Date: 1914-1918

Capture of Monastir, Macedonia, WW1
Scene during the capture of Monastir (now Bitola), Macedonia, during the First World War, with soldiers walking and civilians in the streets, and people looking down from balconies

Civilian refugees from Ypres, Belgium, WW1
Civilian refugees from Ypres, Belgium, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Belgian civilians, WW1
Belgian civilians, including a child, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Civilians fleeing their village, Oostvleteren, Belgium, WW1
Civilians fleeing their village, Oostvleteren, Belgium, after bombing during the First World War. Date: 1915

Belgian mother and baby, WW1
A Belgian mother and her baby during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Two Belgian children, WW1
Two Belgian children during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Queens Crown Civil Defence Corps button badge
A Queens Crown Civil Defence Corps button badge in brass and enamel. late 1940s-1950s

Handley Page W8 biplane airliner
A British Handley Page W8 biplane airliner (also known as the HP18), designed for civilian transport, with space for two crew and up to 15 passengers. Date: circa 1920s

Bank Holiday mobilisation activity at Sheerness, WW1
Bank Holiday mobilisation activity at Sheerness at the start of the First World War. British civilians watch the warships with interest from the deck of the Princess of Wales, Rochester

Bombed House - Occupants refuse to leave
The two elderly female occupants of a heavily-damaged house in Northern France during the First World War, who resolutely refused to leave their battered home. Date: 1919

Poster advertising War Savings Certificates. One workman tells another that its worth while. 1940s

Generals and others, end of First World War
Generals and others of various European allied nations, in a group photograph taken at the end of the First World War. Date: circa 1918

Lord Kitchener in Cairo, Egypt
Lord Herbert Kitchener (1850-1916) in Cairo, Egypt, where he had just been appointed British Agent and Consul-General (de facto Viceroy). Date: circa 1910-1911

Prince Henry of Prussia, von Tirpitz and others
Prince Henry (Heinrich) of Prussia (1862-1929), with Alfred von Tirpitz (1849-1930), German naval commander, and others, mainly British, sitting on some steps at the Royal Yacht Club in Queenstown

Marshal Philippe Petain, French army officer and diplomat
Marshal Philippe Petain (1856-1951), French army officer, seen here while serving as ambassador to Burgos, Spain, before the start of the Second World War. Date: 1939

General Erich Ludendorff, German army officer
General Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff (1865-1937), German army officer during the First World War. Seen here in his study at Tuzing, Bavaria, Germany

Kitcheners army recruits drilling, Chatham, Kent, WW1
Kitcheners army recruits drilling outside the Royal Engineers Electrical School at Chatham, Kent, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Charles Humbert with munitions for Verdun, France
Charles Humbert (1866-1927), French army captain, tax collector, senator and newspaper proprietor. Seen here with piles of munitions destined for Verdun, France, during the First World War

Kitcheners army recruits, Chatham, Kent, WW1
Kitcheners army recruits at the Royal Engineers Barracks in Chatham, Kent, during the First World War, with an ornamental stone gateway behind them. Date: 1914-1918

President Poincare and Aristide Briand, Beauvais, WW1
President Raymond Poincare (1860-1934) (centre) and Prime Minister Aristide Briand (1862-1932) (left), at Beauvais, northern France, for a meeting during the First World War. Date: 1917

Lincolnshire Regiment recruits at rifle drill, WW1
Lincolnshire Regiment recruits at rifle drill at the start of the First World War. Date: September 1914

Poster, Keep on Saving, Salute the Soldier. Encouraging people to save money and help the war effort. 1940s

British in Mexico, 1914
Front cover of the Illustrated London News showing members of the British colony in Mexico city preparing to defend themselves in anticipation of unrest in the capital

Group of soldiers and civilians at a training camp
A group of soldiers and civilians at a training camp, posing for their photo outside a tent. The soldiers are dressed in a variety of uniforms, and two are holding bicycles, while one holds a spade

The Lighter Side by Bernard Hugh
A Tommy (on furlough pending discharge): Blimey! I should fancy I had my bathing costume on. A soldier returning home weighed down with a greatcoat, boots, rifle

World War One aircraft awaiting conversion to civilian use
A line of World War One aircraft in a field at the end of the war, awaiting conversion to civilian use

Local military chief and others, Far East
The local military chief, with others, some in uniform, others in civilian dress, somewhere in the Far East. There is one Western man, perhaps a diplomat, talking to the chief

Over the Top by Bernard Hugh
The demobilisation of the army at the end of World War I was a slow process as this picture, from January 1919 confirms. Some units remained to police the Rhineland region

Bank run in Berlin WWI
A run on a Savings Bank in Berlin, Germany during World War I

German dummy trenches WWI
Germans from Berlin viewing dummy trenches and a dummy mine thrower in Germany during World War I

French peasants WWI
French peasants on their way to work at Arricourt during World War I

Belgian civilians searched WWI
Belgian civilians being subjected to a vigorous search by German soldiers on the Western Front during World War I

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