Civilians Collection (page 5)

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

Cartoon, Russias Thorn in the Flesh, showing a scene in a typical Warsaw cafe on receipt of war news. Date: August 1914

George V & Queen Mary in Trafalgar Square on Armistice Day
King George V and Queen Mary ride in a carriage through Trafalgar Square on Armistice Day at the end of World War One while crowds of soldiers and civilians celebrate. Date: 11th November 1918

The Croxton outrage by G. H. Davis
One of several German attacks on North Sea fishing trawlers, later countered by arming them: the Croxton outrage. How the unarmed Croxton was machine-gunned and bombed until she sank

Cartoon, Knights of the Air, WW1
First World War cartoon entitled Knights of the Air, showing Kaiser Wilhelm II and Field Marshal Von Hindenburg with a scene of destruction behind them

SAVA armoured car, WW1
A SAVA armoured car, used by the Belgian army during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Womens Royal Air Force -- Signing On
Illustration, Eight Months with the Womens Royal Air Force. Showing women Signing On for service -- we plunge into the unknown. Date: 1919-1920

Metropolitan Police centenary celebrations, Hyde Park
Scene at the Metropolitan Police centenary celebrations, showing police officers in their uniforms marching past the Wellington Arch into Hyde Park, Central London

Return of the guards from the Crimea, street sketch
Return of the Grenadier guards from the Crimean War, a street sketch in London with the guards being greeted enthusiastically by civilians

Civilians, when we go through this we need all the help and comfort you can give - The Jewish Welfare Board. Poster showing a soldier reaching out above the chaos of battle. Date 1918

First Air Raid over Scotland, Sphere front cover, 1939
People standing in groups to watch the air attack by German planes on British war ships lying to the east of the Forth Bridge. Although pieces of shrapnel fell around the area, nobody was hurt

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

Belgian soldiers in street scene, Belgium, WW1
Belgian soldiers in a street scene, Belgium, during 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

Street scene in Bucharest, Romania, WW1
Street scene in Bucharest, Romania, after its capture by the Germans during the First World War. Date: circa 1916

French people give directions to lost British soldier, WW1
Scene in a French street during the First World War. A crowd of people, including a policeman, give directions to a British soldier who has lost his way. Date: 1914-1918

Civilians fleeing Nieuport, Belgium, WW1
Civilians fleeing Nieuport, Belgium, after bombardment during the First World War. Date: circa 1914

American troops marching through London, WW1
American troops marching along Horse Guards Avenue, Central London, during the First World War. 1917

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

Inhabitants giving coffee to British troops, Flanders, WW1
Local inhabitants giving coffee to British troops (2nd Scots Guards) on the road from Roulers to Ypres, Flanders, during the First World War. Date: 14 October 1914

American tank in France, WW1
An American armoured tank in a street in France during the First World War. Date: early 1918

Cycling with gas masks in WWII
Two French women cycle to work in Paris with gas masks slung over their shoulders in canisters. Date: 1939

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

Belgian nuns and others, Adinkerke, Belgium, WW1
Belgian nuns and others walking along a road at Adinkerke, behind the Yser front in Belgium, during the First World War. Date: 1917

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

Russian troops landed at Salonika, WW1
Russian troops landed at Salonika (Salonica, Thessaloniki, Greece) during the First World War. They are marching along the quay headed by their Colours. Date: July 1916

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

American troops marching through Neufchatel, WW1
American troops marching through Neufchatel, northern France, on their way to battle during the First World War. Date: 1917-1918

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

German occupation of Brussels, Belgium, WW1
Scene during the German occupation of Brussels, Belgium, during the First World War. Showing German supply wagons outside a depot, and German troops on horseback. Date: 1914-1918

American troops and transport on a road in France, WW1
American troops and transport on a road in war-torn France during the First World War. Date: 1917-1918

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

American troops in Paris, WW1
American troops marching through Paris watched by crowds of spectators during the First World War. Date: 1917-1918

Street scene in Vienna, Austria, beginning of WW1
Street scene in Vienna, Austria, showing people gathering on the outbreak of the First World War. Date: 1914

American officers on horseback in Paris, WW1
American officers riding through Paris during the First World War. Some of them are holding bouquets of flowers. Date: 1917-1918

Italian Bersaglieri soldiers boarding a train, WW1
Italian Bersaglieri (light infantry) troops boarding a train for the front during the First World War, with crowds of civilians there to say goodbye. Date: 1915

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

Sinking of the French liner Sontay, Mediterranean, WW1
Scene during the sinking of the French liner Sontay in the Mediterranean after being torpedoed by a German submarine during the First World War, with passengers and crew escaping into lifeboats

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