Deaths Collection

Switzerland Reichenbach
The Reichenbach falls, where Sherlock Holmes and professor Moriarty are supposed to have fallen to their deaths

Queen Victoria travelling over the Tay bridge
Queen Victoria crossing the Tay Bridge, Dundee. Later that year the Tay bridge collapsed while a train was crossing resulting in the deaths of 75 people

Kaiser & German royal family - Deaths Head Hussars, WW1
Kaiser Wilhelm II (top left), together with his eldest son, the Crown Prince, his only daughter Princess Viktoria Luise, Duchess of Brunswick and the Crown Princess

Policemen guarding house in Sidney Street, East London
Policemen guarding the devastated house in Sidney Street, East London, after the Sidney Street Siege (popularly known as the Battle of Stepney) in East London

Satire on polluted water supply in London
Fun makes a comment on diseased water supply. 18 August 1866

Death's Head Hawk Moth

Deaths Head Hussars, German cavalry

German Cavalry, Death's Head Hussars, early 1900s

Cartoon, Monument to Napoleon! by George Cruikshank. Showing a skeleton on top of a pyramid of skulls, to reflect the many deaths caused during his military campaigns. Date: 1842

Princess Victoria Louise & Princess Cecile uniform 1913
Front cover showing two German Princesses in Military uniform. (Left) Princess Victoria Louise (1892 - 1980), the only daughter and the last child of German Emperor Wilhelm II

St. Jerome. First half of the 18th century. Byzantine Museum. Zante. Ionian Islands. Greece

Nature Insect Insects Butterfly Butterflies Moth
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Mrs Dubosc Taylor by Madame Yevonde
The late Mrs Dubosc Taylor who died from influenza caught while on nursing duty in France at the end of the First World War

Allied bombing compared with the Somme by G. H. Davis
Big damage at low cost: the Allied bombing offensive during the Second World War compared with one day's casualties on the Somme during the First World War

Cartoon, The Head of the German Vam-Pire, WW1
Cartoon, The Head of the German Vam-Pire, with a caricature of Kaiser Wilhelm II with the words Louvain and Rheims (Reims) on his shoulders

Cartoon, Important Surrender of Copyright, WW1
Cartoon, Important Surrender of Copyright. Showing Bloody Mary (Queen Mary I of England) handing over her title to Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany

Field Marshal August von Mackensen, German army officer
Field Marshal August von Mackensen (1849-1945), German Army officer, seen here in later life in full ceremonial uniform, including a death's head on his hat. Date: circa 1930s

Kaiser Wilhelm Ii 1903 Cartoons Caricatures German
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WILHELM II/DEATH'S HEAD
WILHELM II GERMAN ROYALTY The Kaiser in the uniform of the Death's Head Hussars Date: 1903

NAPOLEON'S HANDIWORK
Napoleon views his handiwork : Death comments : Yet more atrocities, more deaths, more ruins... Date: 1815

LADY AND DEATH'S HEAD
She looks into her mirror but, somewhat to her surprise, instead of her own face she sees a death's head

MOSLEMS AND HOURIS
Moslems are taught that if they die for the faith, they will find beautiful nymphs - HOURIS - awaiting them in the next world : so they go happily to their deaths

HOURIS
Moslems are taught that if they die for the faith, they will find beautiful nymphs - HOURIS - awaiting them in the next world : so they go happily to their deaths

Putting bee-hives into mourning 1856
Telling the bees, traditional European custom in which bees would be told of an important event in the beekeepers life, such as long journeys, births, marriages and deaths

Deaths Head hawk moth, Acherontia atropos. Handcoloured steel engraving from Georg Friedrich Treitschkes Gallery of Natural History, Naturhistorischer Bildersaal des Thierreiches, Liepzig, 1842

Deaths head hawkmoth, six-spot burnet
Deaths head hawkmoth, Acherontia atropos, six-spot burnet, Zygaena filipendulae, and nine-spotted moth, Amata phegea. Handcolored engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Blanchard from Charles

African deaths head hawkmoth and oleander hawk-moth
African deaths head hawkmoth and larva, Acherontia atropos 1, 2, and oleander hawk-moth, Daphnis nerii 3. Sphinx tete de mort, chenille, Sphinx du laurier-rose

Deaths head hawkmoth, Acherontia atropos, moth, caterpillar and pupa (Jasmine sphinx, Sphinx atropos). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

Deaths Head hawkmoth and oak hawkmoth
Deaths Head hawkmoth, Acherontia atropos, and oak hawkmoth, Marumba quercus. Handcoloured steel engraving by the Pauquet brothers after an illustration by Alexis Nicolas Noel from Hippolyte Lucas

Deaths head hawkmoth, digger wasps, ball lichen
Ball lichen, Sphaerophorus globulus 1, Dynamene crustacean 2, digger wasps, Sphex species 3, 4, and African deaths head hawkmoth, Acherontia atropos, and caterplillar 5

Deaths head and eyed hawk-moths
Deaths head hawk-moth, Acherontia atropos 1, and eyed hawk-moth, Smerinthus ocellatus 2, moth, caterpillar and pupa. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur

Curtis British Entomology Plate 234
Hymenoptera: Ichneumon atropos = Callajoppa exaltatoria (Death?s Head Ichneumon) [Plant: Luzula multiflora (Juncus liniger Withering, or Luzula congesta, Flaxen Rush)] Date: 1824-39

Beachy Head, near Eastbourne, Sussex, the site of many deaths and rescues. Seen here are members of the rescue team at the top of the cliff, transporting a piece of lifting equipment

Lung Hill Colliery explosion 1857
Explosion at Lung Hill Colliery in Wombwell neighbourhood of Barnsley, South Yorkshire. 200 miners went down the pit that day, in which 189 men and boys aged between 10 and 59 died

Lung Hill Colliery 1857
Lung Hill Colliery in Wombwell neighbourhood of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, shortly after the tragedy were 189 men and boys died from a explosion. Date: February 1857

Lung Hill Colliery explosion - rushing to scene 1857
Lung Hill Colliery in Wombwell neighbourhood of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, relatives rushing to the scene of the explosion. Date: February 1857

Lung Hill Colliery explosion - resuing the survivors 1857
Lung Hill Colliery in Wombwell neighbourhood of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, resuing the survivors, were 189 men and boys died from a explosion. Date: February 1857

Lancashire coal-mine disaster 1932
Bickershaw Colliery in Lancashire where coal-mine disaster happened on the 10 October 1932. A mine-shaft elevator carrying 20 people fell at the mine, killing all but one person

HIGH BROOKS MINE 1866
An explosion at the High Brooks colliery, near Wigan in Lancashire, England, results in the deaths of 30 miners. Date: 23 January 1866

DEATHS DOOR
An old man enters Deaths door Date: 1808

Will of the wisp, - circa 1800
A mischievous demon, in the guise of a Will o the Wisp, lures unwary travellers to their deaths in a bog. Date: circa 1800

Queen Mourns Deaths / 1908
The Queen of Portugal mourns over the deathbeds of her assassinated husband, Carlos I, and her son, Luiz Date: 1908

Anti-German cartoon, map of Europe, WW1
The tailors of strafe street. An anti-German cartoon showing the German Kaiser Wilhelm II and his son, Crown Prince Wilhelm, in a tailors shop during the First World War

Kaiser Wilhelm II in Deaths Head Hussars uniform
Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941), German Emperor, seen here in the uniform of the Deaths Head Hussars (the 7th Hussars). Date: circa early 20th century

1923 Corfu Incident
Italian troops occupy Corfu, in response to the deaths of an Italian general and four of his staff on the Greek- Albanian frontier. Date: 1923

Debris following Llanelli railway strike riots, Wales
Newspapers strewn over the railway lines, with a train in the background wrecked by rioters during the railway strike, during which nine people were killed

Field Marshal August von Mackensen, German army officer
Field Marshal August von Mackensen (1849-1945), German Army officer, seen here on his 88th birthday. He is in uniform, including a deaths head on his headgear

Rome / Tarpeian Rock 1891
Traditionally, traitors against the Roman state were thrown from this rock to their deaths : it was named after Tarteia who opened the gates Date: 1891

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