Civilians Collection (page 4)

Things We Vow We Will Do, When Peace Breaks out
Cartoon by George Studdy showing a gent purposefully indulging in wasteful behaviour, a welcome relief after years of food control, shortages and rationing. Date: 1918

Intolerable! by Norman Morrow
First Slacker (to second ditto): " These lighting restrictions - darn d nuisance. Hailed a " taxi" the other night

March past of soldiers on the Western Front, WW1
Officers standing on a platform, watching a march past of soldiers on the Western Front, WW1. Date: 1914-1918

Parisians celebrate peace treatry, France, 1919
A series of photographs recording of French citizens celebrating the peace treaty in the streets of Paris. From jubilation in the city, German guns being dragged through the streets

WW1 - Conscription in Britain
WW1 - Britannia holding her trident and the National Register, in front of civilians and industrial factory. The patriotic scenario

Sphere cover - Air Raid over London
Front cover of The Sphere showing civilians in London during the air raid of 7 July 1917, taking shelter in what looks like a church doorway as a police officer looks skyward to check on whether

The Way of War with Civilians, WW1
The Way of War with Civilians -- a cross-section of an English home, showing how it could be adapted for military purposes during the First World War. Date: 1914

WW1 - Belgian Refugees on road to Brussels from Tirlemont
WW1 - Belgian Refugees on the road to Brussels from Tirlemont Date: 1914

Group photo, Gosport, Hampshire, WW2
Group photo of nurses, St Johns Ambulance staff, Civil Defence (CD) volunteers and others, Gosport, Hampshire. Date: circa 1940s

Group photo, British soldiers and civilians, WW1
Group photo, British soldiers (including two young women in uniform, with rifles) and civilians, at a camp. Date: circa 1914

Group photo with soldiers and dog in yard
Group photo with soldiers, civilians and a dog in a back yard. Date: circa 1914-1918

Cartoon, The civilian husband, WW1
Cartoon, The pacific (ie civilian) husband. He says after the war he will regret not having seen anything. His wife replies that he will regret not having done anything. Date: 1915

Cartoon, In the back, WW1
Cartoon, In the back. The woman on the right is criticised for reminding a social gathering that people are killing each other just 80 kilometers away. Date: 1915

Cartoon, At the rear, WW1
Cartoon, At the rear, showing two civilians commenting on the state of the German soldiers trousers, all tattered at the back. Date: 1915

Cartoon, At Biarritz, WW1
Cartoon, At Biarritz. A man who is optimistic about the war chats in the sea with a fellow-bather. Date: 1915

Scots Guards marching through Cologne, WW1
The pipers of the Scots Guards playing troops through the streets of Cologne during the occupation of the Rhineland after the end of the First World War. Date: 1919

Reading Armistice terms on a village green by night
A small group of British villagers, having received a newspaper containing the terms of the Armistice, signalling the end of the First World War, gather around on a village green to hear the news

Royal Marines, Princess Hotel Ferry, Bermuda
Royal Marines and others in front of the Princess Hotel Ferry, Bermuda. Date: circa 1912

Gathering of Allies in an Italian home, WW1
French, British and Italian soldiers gathered together in an Italian home. The Allies had been fighting together to hold up the long-threatened Austrian offensive which was launched against Italy

Sphere cover - French refugees from lost villages, Matania
A refugee French mother and her children are given a lift by some British soldiers on a road in Northern France as they escape the approaching German guns

Sphere cover - evacuation of civilians in France, WW1
A Knight-Errant on wheels - an incident in the evacuation of civilians in France. A British motor cyclists helps an old French lady

Blind Frenchwoman helped from home by British soldiers, WW1
British soldiers helping a blind Frenchwoman out of her house in the village of Masnieres as it was being heavily shelled by the Germans. Date: 1918

Dutch boy scouts and others near Eindhoven, WW2
Dutch boy scouts and others in a street near Eindhoven with American army tanks during the Second World War. Date: 1940s

Sphere cover - Germans leave French village, 1918
Ruckwarts (meaning backward-going) - the Long March of Grey Uniforms towards the Rhine. A scene drawn by The Sphere special artist Fortunino Matania

Sphere cover - inhabitants of a recaptured French village
Front cover of The Sphere magazine showing a wonderful photograph of Allied soldiers posing with inhabitants of the French village of Saudemont (20km south east of Arras)

German troops driving down a street, WW2
German troops on army vehicles, driving down a street watched by civilians. Date: 1940

Queen Elisabeth of Belgium on horseback
Queen Elisabeth of Belgium (consort of Albert I) on horseback, with soldiers and civilians following behind her on foot

A bomb shelter built in London, WW1
Children posed by the doorway of a bomb shelter built by a man (a City merchant according to The Graphic) to provide protection for his family during air raids in 1917

Blitz in London -- demonstrating deluge set, WW2
Blitz in London -- as part of a war weapons week, a firefighter on the Embankment in Central London, 20 May 1941, demonstrates the deluge set

The Eagle hut disturbance, 1919
Soldiers, sailors and civilians retiring from Bow Street police station following a riot where a crowd of around 1000 had protested at the arrest of two American soldiers

Blitz in London -- training office workers, WW2
Blitz in London -- LFS personnel training office workers in firefighting, 7 June 1941, with a diagram of a typical kilo magnesium electron incendiary bomb pinned to a blackboard. Date: 1941

Rescue following bombing, WW2
Rescue of civilians by firefighters following bombing during the Blitz. Date: 1940s

Civilian doing his bit, WW1
Humorous illustrations showing a British civilian adorned with a whole range of flags, badges and emblems of wartime service

Belgian Brigade enter Brussels, WW2
The Belgian Brigade enter Brussels towards the end of the Second World War, welcomed by cheering civilians in the Rue Royale. Date: 1944

Wagon Post, Vaux, WW1
Wagon Post, Vaux. by Lieutenant W (Will) H Dyson (1880-1938), Australian Imperial Force. Dyson joined the Army and despite being wounded twice he produced a large number of drawings of Australian

Are You One of These? WW1 cartoon by H. M. Bateman
Cartoon by H. M. Bateman poking fun at men who find a myriad of excuses - such as " my moustache is taking up all my time now

To dress extravagantly in war is unpatriotic, WW1
To dress extravagantly in war is unpatriotic. Three unattractive older women passing a war poster. By George Belcher, RA (1875-1947)

The Watchers by Dudley Tennant, WW1 floodlights
A mother tucks her young child up in bed while looking at the lights projected across the sky by searchlights searching for enemy aircraft during the First World War. Date: 1917

Retreating Belgian army in Ghent, 1914
The retreat of the Belgian army from the invading Germans : the army passing through the Chausee de Bruxelles in Ghent. The trams were disabled and unfit for use. Date: 1914

Parisians watch German aeroplane, WW1
Parisians pictured in one of the citys boulevards, looking skywards, intent on the manoeuvres of a German Taube aeroplane. Date: 1914

Bombardment of Lowestoft, WW1
German bombardment of the East Coast during the First World War. A police officer investigates in a room in a convalescent home in which the matron, who escaped unhurt

Civilian internment camp at Ruhleben
Incidents in the life at the civilian internment camp at Ruhleben, showing an engravers kiosk and the office for distributing the eagerly-awaited parcels from England

British soldier and local resident, Western Front, WW1
British soldier relaxing with a local resident and her cattle on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

British soldiers and local residents, Western Front, WW1
British soldiers relaxing with local residents and their cattle on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

King George V meeting locals, Western Front, WW1
King George V meeting some of the local civilian residents on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Canadian journalists visit France, Western Front, WW1
Canadian journalists visiting the Western Front in France during World War One. Seen here with Lord Lovat at a Canadian sawmill. Date: circa 1916

Gordon Highlanders marching through Plymouth, WW1
Men of the Gordon Highlanders marching through Plymouth, with Colonel W E Gordon leading them on horseback, and civilians following them on either side, in the early days of the First World War

Football in aid of Prince of Wales Fund, WW1
A crowd of spectators at the first football match of the season at Chelsea. Receipts went towards the Prince of Wales War Fund. Date: August 1914

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