Czechoslovak Collection

Czech armoured train 1918
A Czech armoured train (Orcik). These were used by the Czechoslovak Legion to control the trans-Siberian railway during the Russian Civil War

Andrea Majinski at Charing
Andrea Majinski, a Czechoslovak model of the 1920s, poses holding a dog at Charing, Kent. She was a model of the sculptor Jacob Epstein. 1927

Ilyushin Il-62 OK-YBB (msn 90603), of CSA (CSA - Ceskoslovenske statni aerolinie - Czechoslovak State Airlines), at Amsterdam-Schiphol Airport in January 1970. Date: 1970

Czech armoured train 1918
A Czech armoured train at Marianovka, east of Omsk in Siberia, during the Russian Civil War. In early June 1918 the 2nd and 6th Regiments of the Czechoslovak Legion attacked and occupied Omsk

Avia 14-40 OK-MCP, of CSA - Ceskoslovenske statni aerolinie (Czechoslovak State Airlines). The Avia 14-40 was a 40-seat licence-built Ilyushin Il-14. Date: circa 1968

Football team photo, Slavia Prague, Czech Republic. Date: circa 1920

Football team photo, Susice, Czech Republic. Date: circa 1920

Mourning card for President T. G. Masaryk of Czechoslovakia
Mourning card for President Tomas Garrigue Masaryk of Czechoslovakia (1850-1937) - produced on the day of his death and sent 4 days later

Pavel Stepanek, Czech parapsychology subject
Pavel Stepanek (b. 1931), Czech parapsychology subject, taking part in many ESP test sessions with Milan Ryzl during the 1960s. Date: circa 1960s

WW2 - Patriotic Czech League in London - Way to go to it. Many of the Czech soldiers (and civilians) that had managed to escape from Czechoslovakia when Germany invaded in 1939

Boy scouts in camp, Czechoslovakia
Boy scouts in camp, relaxing and sunbathing, Czechoslovakia

General Maurice Janin, French Army officer
Pierre-Thiebaut-Charles-Maurice Janin (1862-1946), French Army general, commander in chief of the Czechoslovak Army in Siberia during the First World War. Date: circa 1919

Tomas Masaryk, Czech President, in Philadelphia, USA
Tomas Garrigue Masaryk (1850-1937), Austro-Hungarian and Czechoslovak politician, founder and first President of Czechoslovakia

Antonin Nemec, Czech politician, Prague
Antonin Nemec, member of the Czech Social Democratic Party (CSSD), speaking to a large crowd in Staromestske Square (Old Town Square), Prague, Czechoslovakia

Edvard Benes at Topolcianky Chateau
Edvard Benes (1884 1948), leader of the Czechoslovak independence movement, Minister of Foreign Affairs and the second President of Czechoslovakia (on right)

Boy scout at World Jamboree, Czechoslovakia
Boy scout, Vladimir Stochl of Czechoslovakia, at the World Jamboree. Date: 1947

Patriotic postcard, Czech Army in Russia, WW1
Patriotic postcard showing the Czech Army in Russia during the First World War, gun in hand, protecting their homeland against murderers. Date: 1914-1918

Poster, Czechoslovak Recruiting Office, WW1
Poster issued by the Czechoslovak Recruiting Office during the First World War, giving hopes of a national revival. Date: 1914-1918

Postcard, Czech soldier and dancer, WW1
Postcard showing a Czech soldier with his rifle, being entertained by a dancer (probably French) during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Postcard, Czechoslovak Recruiting Office, WW1
Patriotic postcard issued by the Czechoslovak Recruiting Office during the First World War, showing a Czech soldier appealing to his fellow-countrymen living in America to join him

Kladno strikers, October 1918
The people of Kladno gather in the centre of their city in Bohemia, north west of Prague, on strike in support of an independent Czechoslovak republic

Tomas Masaryk, Czech President, arriving in Prague
Tomas Garrigue Masaryk (1850-1937), Austro-Hungarian and Czechoslovak politician, founder and first President of Czechoslovakia

Tomas Masaryk, Czech President, signing oath of faith
Tomas Garrigue Masaryk (1850-1937), Austro-Hungarian and Czechoslovak politician, founder and first President of Czechoslovakia

Vaclav Klofac, Czechoslovak politician
Vaclav Jaroslav Klofac (1868-1942), Czechoslovak politician, one of the founders of the Czech National Social Party. He was Minister of Defence of Czechoslovakia from 1918-1920. Date: circa 1920s

Tomas Masaryk, Czech President
Tomas Garrigue Masaryk (1850-1937), Austro-Hungarian and Czechoslovak politician, founder and first President of Czechoslovakia. Date: circa 1918

Czech politicians, Old Town Square, Prague
Czech politicians taking the ceremonial oath of the Czechoslovak forces, in Old Town Square, Prague. From left to right they are: Udrzal, Scheiner, Klofac, Habrman. 8 November 1918

Czech aeroplane 1918
A Czech aeroplane from the First Division at Ufa, Russia, during the Russian Civil War

Czech artillery unit 1918
A Czech artillery unit, somewhere in Russia

Austrian trenches at Zborov 1917
Austrian trenches at Zborov (in modern day Ukraine). These were captured by the Czechoslovak Legions, fighting alongside the Russian forces against the Austro-Hungarian empire

Masaryk arrives in Prague 1918
Thomas Masaryk, the philosopher and politician who did much to persuade the world that Czechoslovakia should gain independence following the end of World War I, arrives in Prague

Czechoslovak legion returns to Prague 1918
A Czechoslovak regiment returns from fighting in France at the end of World war I. Volunteer Czechs and Slovaks fought on several fronts during the war

Czechoslovak legions in Prague 1918
Czech and Slovak volunteer forces returning from fighting on the western front at the end of World War I. They had formed regiments under the command of the French army

Poster advertising Czechoslovak Airlines, CSA

Czechoslovak vaudeville telepath Fred Marion
Undated photograph of the Czechoslovak vaudeville telepath Fred Marion (a.k.a. Josef Kraus) psychometrising a letter. HPG/1/7/15 (iii)

General Janin
PIERRE THIEBAULT JANIN French general, commander in chief of the Czechoslovak Army in World War One

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