Commanding Collection

Kitchener Poster - Your Country Needs You
Poster, Britons - (Kitchener) wants YOU. Join your countrys army. The classic World War One recruitment poster designed by Alfred Leete. circa 1916

Queen Boudica of the Iceni Tribe. Commanded a combined army of British tribes which rose up and sacked Camulodunum (Colchester)

Promotional Recruitment card for the U. S. Navy
Promotional Recruitment card for the U. S. Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Illinois. 2200 recruits under training have formed a giant anchor, with Rear Admiral John Downes US Navy

Flamenco Dancer
A Flamenco dancer in a red dress strikes a commanding pose

Commanding Suffragette
A commanding suffragette : Just give me the vote and see what I ll do !

Cartoon, My Boys! (British Lion)
Cartoon, My Boys! An imperialist depiction of the British Lion proudly commanding his Australian and Canadian cubs. Date: 1885

Air Vice Marshal Sir Arthur Mary Coningham, KCB, KBE, DSO, MC, DFC, AFC, RAF, (1895-1948) Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief 2nd Tactical Air Force

THE ACROPOLIS, MYCENAE
A general view of the Acropolis at Mycenae. The primary remains at the site are the walls and tombs. The Palace has been almost totally destroyed over time

Angel commanding Hagar to return to Sarah
The Angel of the Lord commanding Hagar to return to her mistress Sarah - Thomas Bankes Bible, Genesis 16.9. 1787

Oval portrait of Lieutenant Colonel C V Bulstrode
" Oval portrait of Lieutenant Colonel C. V. Bulstrode, DSO, RAMC. in a pewter frame with RAMC badge. Dated June 1918, Athens

WW2 - W. A. A. F. With Commanding Officer
A WW2 short story illustration which depicts a scene where the commanding officer is snarling towards a member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. Date: circa 1940

Recruitment poster, Commando Medical Service, WW2
Recruitment poster, Commando Medical Service, February 1945, Second World War Date: 1945

Vietnamese Patriotic Poster - Ho Chi Minh's Campaign
Vietnamese Patriotic Poster - Ho Chi Minh takes every step and every advance alongside his troops, even if he is not physically by their side'. Date: circa mid-1970s

Captain John Treasure Jones Archive - two items
Captain John Treasure Jones Archive. Born and raised on a small farm in Pembrokeshire, South Wales, John Treasure Jones (1905-1993) went to sea at the age of 15

White Star Line, RMS Olympic and Titanic - framed poster
White Star Line, RMS Olympic and Titanic - extremely rare official White Star Line poster, circa 1910-1911. White Star Line agent's poster showing a commanding image of the ship at sea in a 3/4

Lieutenant-General Sir R L McCreery, 8th Army, WW2
Lieutenant-General Sir R L McCreery commanding the British Eighth Army operating in Italy during the Second World War Date: 1940s

Scotts Bunker, Polygon Wood, Belgium
The bunker is just behind the New Zealand National Memorial, though one needs to climb a small wall to visit it from there

General Sir Richard England, army officer
Vintage 19th century photograph: General Sir Richard England, GCB, KH (1793 - 19 January 1883) was a British Army officer, born at Detroit, which was then part of Upper Canada

Yellow cardinal, Gubernatrix cristata. Endangered. (Commanding bunting, Emberiza gubernatrix). Handcoloured engraving by Griffith, Harriet or Edward

King Cnut commands the tide to retreat (unsuccessfully)
Cnut the Great (circa 985 or 9951035), (or Canute), King of Denmark, England, Norway, and parts of Sweden. Henry of Huntingdon, the 12th-century chronicler

Nieppe, just outside Northern boundary of Armentieres, WW1
Nieppe - just outside the Northern boundary of Armentieres. The old Mill, where eggs and fresh milk could be obtained almost up to the time the Bosche attacked

Portuguese Army mule cart en route through Erquinghem, WW1
Portuguese Wagon - Portuguese Army mule cart en route through Erquinghem - 14.7.17. Shows regimental insignia in red and green with the figures 13 and 169 on the cart

Armentieres area, billets on front edge of town, WW1
My return to France in February 1917 as Officer commanding 505th Field Co. RE, found me once again in the Armentieres area with billets on the front edge of the town

Storeyard from farmhouse Delacroix Farm, WW1
View of the RE storeyard from farmhouse, Delacroix Farm, Sailly-sur-la-Lys. Birds eye view of the Delacroix Farm as laid out as our depot

Typical French kitchen stove, with Hortense Delacroix, WW1
A typical French kitchen stove, with Hortense Delacroix. Here I took my cafe au lait each morning before going down line. Annotated on back of picture - Hortense Delacroix

Sad End of a German Spy Behind the British Line, WW1
The Sad End of a German Spy Behind the British Line. He foolishly endeavoured to obtain information from our sign boards!

Signpost Lane, from British lines to German lines, WW1
Signpost Lane, which ran from the British lines, through the German lines into the village of Neuve Chapelle. This sketch was made from a ditch in No-Man s-Land during a reconnaissance for

RE wiring party in front of the trenches, WW1
An RE [Royal Engineers] wiring party in front of the trenches. Until about late 1915, wiring was exclusively the work of the RE, but the casualties sustained in doing this work

Spy Farm, Rue de Bois, RE store destroyed by shell fire, WW1
Spy Farm, Rue de Bois, another RE store, destroyed by shell fire, 26th January 1915. A considerable amount of constructive woodwork was stored here

Trenches at La Boutillerie, forward of Fleurbaix, WW1
By the light of the flare. My first impression of the trenches, at La Boutillerie, forward of Fleurbaix, Jan.15. The front line consisted of separate trenches of primitive construction without any

General Hs Hawkins at the Battle of San Juan. Date: 6 July 1898

Envelope signed by the famous Actor-Manager Fred Terry
A small envelope signed by the famous Actor-Manager Fred Terry (1863-1933) and accompanied by a rather fine quote from The Scarlet Pimpernel (Act III)

Squadron Leader Augustus Henry Orlebar
Sqn Ldr Augustus Henry Orlebar, 1897-1943, Officer Commanding, RAF High Speed Flight

Air Marshal J. D. I. Hardman, OB, OBE, DFC, Chief of Air ?
Air Marshal J.D.I. Hardman, OB, OBE, DFC, Chief of Air Staff, Royal Australian Air Force, called on General Weyland, Commanding General Far East Air Force

The New Colonel by H. M. Bateman
A young, business-like and rather intellectual Colonel arrives at a club, observed with some reservation by the old guard. Date: 1929

Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still. Jos 10: 13. Dore Bi
Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still. Jos 10:13. And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Dore Bible Illustration. 19th century

WW1 - Russian Front - Officer using a trench periscope Date: circa 1916

Lieutenant-General Arthur Percival
Lieutenant-General Arthur Ernest Percival (1887 - 1966) who was appointed General Officer Commanding (GOC) Malaya in April 1941

Ataturk and General Harrington
Kemal Pasa (Ataturk) and General Harrington (commanding the British troops) - compromising on neutral ground in 1923. A very interesting photograph as it shows a Turkish delegation approaching an

First and Second Impressions by H. M. Bateman
The Majors speaking voice was simply charming. Maisie was rapidly succumbing to its spell. Until one day she heard him use it on parade! Cartoon by H. M

Lt Col Tim Collins
Digital photograph: Lt Col Tim Collins commanding officer of The Royal Irish Regiment talks to his troops on the eve of the Coalition forces invasion of Iraq.Photographed by WO2 Giles Penfound

King Cnut the Great fails to halt the incoming tide
Cnut the Great (circa 985 or 9951035), (or Canute), King of Denmark, England, Norway, and parts of Sweden. Henry of Huntingdon, the 12th-century chronicler

Admiral Robert Blake defeats Dutch Fleet at Goodwin Sands
Admiral Robert Blake (15981657) defeats the Dutch Fleet at The Battle of Goodwin Sand (Battle of Dover) on 19th May 1652 - the first engagement of the First Anglo-Dutch War. Date: 1652

Admiral Rozhdestvensky
Zinovy Petrovich Rozhestvensky (1848 1909), admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy. Date: 1905

Sutor Stacks, Cromarty
One of the Sutor Stacks, near Cromarty, on the Black Isle, Ross-shire, Scotland. This commanding height was used as a gun enplacement during World War Two. Date: 1950s

Ukraine - Perekop
The massive Golden Gate and fortifications of Perekop, a strategic town commanding the main route from Russia to the Crimea

Colonel Alderson, commander in South Africa
Lieutenant General Sir Edwin Alfred Hervey Alderson KCB (8 April 1859 14 December 1927), senior British Army officer who served in several campaigns of the late nineteenth

War of Spanish Succession (1702-1715). Oath of the captains of Barcelona who commands the troops of Antonio de Villarroel, Commander in Chief of the Army of Catalonia. Engraving by Urbadieta and J

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