Commandeering Collection

WW1 - Private and Commercial Vehicles Commandeered - Hyde Park, London. Date: 1914

Commandeered - Goodbye Old Friend by Dudley Tennant
A woman says goodbye to her horse which has been commandeered for Army purposes shortly after the outbreak of the First World War. Date: 1914

Army commandeering railway horses at Bexhill, WW1
Soldiers commandeering railway horses for Army purposes at Bexhill - taking the animals from their stables. Date: 1914

WW1 - buying horses for the Suffolk Territorial R. F. A
Soldiers from the Suffolk Territorial Royal Field Artillery buying horses for Army purposes at a Norfolk farm shortly after the outbreak of the First World War. Date: 1914

Soldiers commandeering horses at Bexhill, WW1
Soldiers from the 6th Sussex battery commandeering horses at Bexhill in the early weeks of the First World War. Date: 1914

Commandeering meat for the army during World War I
Cargoes of frozen meat were commandeered by the Government on arrival in the UK. On the eve of the war the prices of provisions shot up suddenly but the Government stepped in

Three scenes in German occupied Vise, Belgium, WW1
Three scenes in German occupied Vise, Belgium, at the start of the First World War. Top left: a damaged house, with German soldiers in the street

Commandeered - postcard by Lawson Wood
Commandeered - A postcard by Lawson Wood showing two solid-looking British soldiers commandeering a (now very upset) young lads toy horse

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