December Collection (page 17)

EDWARD III CORONATION
Edward III crowned at Westminster Abbey at the age of 15 Date: 25 December 1326

CLOVIS BAPTISED (2)
Clovis, Merovingian king of the Franks, converts to Christianity after defeating the Alemanni at TOLBIAC, as he promised his wife Clothilde he would do Date: 25 December 496

WOUNDED AT TOULON
Napoleon I is wounded during the siege of Toulon Date: circa December 1793

FRANCE / NAP. & EAGLES FRANCE / NAP. & EAGLES
Emperor Napoleon distributes Eagles (regimental flags & Roman-like standards) to members of the French army. Date: 5th December 1804

John Bull Shot in Rear
The bombardment of Hartlepool - John Bull gets hit in a sensitive area... Date: December 1914

Convict chain, France
A chain of convicts welcome a new arrival at La Tournelle: Jean-Francois Gruet, a tax collector condemned to the galleys for life for appropriating public money. Date: December 1716

PLUMPER SEA SERPENT
Marine creature sighted from HMS Plumper near Oporto, Portugal, from a sketch by a witness; he said it seemed to have something like a mane Date: 31 December 1848

Mary of Modena Flees
Mary of Modena, queen of James II, flees to France clutching her new-born son James (subsequently the Old Pretender). Date: 1688

Roman banquet to celebrate the Saturnalia
A Roman banquet to celebrate the Saturnalia, 17-19 December. Date: circa 100 BC

United States Air Force McDonnell Douglas VC-9-C 71-0882 (msn 47541 / Line Number669), first flown 7 July 1972 and operated from new by the USAF

Douglas DC-3C G-AMYJ
Douglas DC-3C-R-1830-90C G-AMYJ (msn 15968/32716) of the Department of Transports Pollution Control contract, operated by Harvestair Ltd at Southend

USN - United States Marine Corps North American FJ-4B Fury
United States Navy / United States Marine Corps North American FJ-4B Fury, BuNo 141469, 60, of 7 Naval Air Reserve Training Unit at Naval Air Station New York / Floyd Bennett Field (unit code 7R)

Royal Air Force Hunting P. 84 Jet Provost T. 4 XP551
Royal Air Force Hunting P.84 Jet Provost XP551 T4, delivered on 7 December 1961 to the Central flying School at RAF Little Rissington and scrapped on 22 November 1968 at No.27 MU Shawbury

United States Navy Grumman XFF-1 A8878
United States Navy Grumman G-5 XFF-1 A8878, prototype of the Grumman FF-1 two-seat fighter first flown on 29 December 1931, redesignated FF-1 in 1936

Curtiss C-46F-1-CU Commando N4877V (msn 22442) of Capitol Airways. 44-78619, disposed of to the Foreign Liquidation commission on 20 August 1947 and bought by Claire L

Royal Air Force - Hunting Jet Provost T. 3A XN502
Royal Air Force Hunting Jet Provost T.3A XN502, call-sign 29, (msn PAC/W/10163), delivered 0n 1 December 1960 and sold on 24 January 1995 in the US, as N502GW, at Martinsburg, Pennsylvania, USA

Bristol Type 171 Mk. 2 Sycamore VW905
Bristol Type 171 Mk.2 Sycamore VW905 (msn 12869) at the 1948 SBAC show at Farnborough on 8 September 1948. WV905 was allocated a civilian registration as G-AJGU but never wore those markings

Convair 440 Metropolitan N29DR of Basler Flight Services (msn 146); engines : Pratt and Whitney R-2800-CB16 or CB17 Double Wasps; year built : 1955XA-KIM : delivered 8 April 1954

Britten Norman BN-2A Islander G-AXRN (msn129) of Humber Airways Limited at Brough. G-AXRN was first flown on 10 November 1969 as G-51-52

Convair JC-131B and North American T-28
Convair JC-131B O-53-7789, (MSN 241), with a single Solar T41 APU in an underwing pylon-mounted pod, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

North American T-28A Nomad N7708C at Paloima 49-1515 (MSN 159-27) Assigned to 3300th Pilot Training Group, Graham AFB, FL December 1955; To the Arizona Aircraft Storage Branch [aSB]

WW1 - A German propaganda view (unlike this image, the crews of all seven aircraft survived the raid!) of the aerial and naval combat at Cuxhaven, a German North Sea Port. During the First World War

Russian Navy lends aid after the Messina Earthquake
Russian Navy lends aid after the terrible Messina Earthquake, Sicily, Italy. The devastating earthquake and tsunami of 27-28th December 1908 which measured 7.5 on the richter scale claimed 100

SATURNALIA
Romans celebrate the festival of the SATURNALIA which occurred in December and was the forerunner of the Christians Christmas

WW2 - Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister in France
WW2 - Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940), British Prime Minister at Arras, France, during a visit to the British Expeditionary Force on 15th December 1939

Students from No 6 Course Empire Test Pilots?s School t?
Students from No 6 Course Empire Test Pilots?s School toured the Avro factories on 15 and 16 December 1947 when they completed a series of visits to the aircraft manufacturers

An unarmed English Electric Thunderbird surface-to-air ?
An unarmed English Electric Thunderbird surface-to-air guided missile collides amidship with the target, a Jindivik, following its launch from Woomera, Australia, 5 December 1957. Date: 1957

Four Westland Whirlwinds of No. 2 Flying Training School?
Four Westland Whirlwinds of No.2 Flying Training School, RAF Shawbury, near Shrewsbury, make a final flight over their base on 17 December 1980

Churchill recovering from injuries following a car accident
Winston Churchill (1874-1965) leaves hospital after being struck by a car late one evening while crossing New Yorks Fifth Avenue in December, 1931, barely escaping with his life. Date: 1931

Avenida Central - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - photograph taken on 15th December 1905. Date: 1905

Earthquake - Damage to the Cathedral, Messina, Sicily
Sicily, Italy - 12th Century Norman Cathedral of Messina badly damaged during an earthquake in 1908. King Conrad is buried inside, alongside several archbishops

Palermo, Sicily, Italy - Monte Pellegrino and the port
The Battlefield at Colenso - site of the heavy defeat of British forces by the Boers during the Second Boer War on 15th December 1899

Public learn of Constitutional Crisis in the British Royalty
December 3rd, 1936 - A group of women discuss the Constitutional Crisis in the British Royalty they have been reading about in their newspaper Date: 1936

Duke of York at Smithfield Club Fat Stock Show held at the Agricultural Hall Islington in December 1927. His Father (King George V) and his brother (Edward)

Cartoon, Arthur Dacre, actor
Cartoon, Arthur Dacre (Arthur Culver James, 1850-1895), actor -- It is a treat to see him play a loving swain! 1883

Queen Elizabeth II visit to Rye, Sussex
Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh visit Rye, Sussex, in December 1966. 1966

Fancy dress - Old Father Time
A man dressed up as Old Father Time with obligatory scythe and hour glass. Date: c.1920

Bill Lang v Bob Fitzsimmons in heavyweight boxing match
Bill Lang (1882-1952), Australian boxer, v Bob Fitzsimmons (1863-1917), British boxer, in a heavyweight match -- probably in December 1909 in Sydney, Australia, where Lang won with a knockout

Starry Gazey Pie, Ship Inn, Mousehole, Cornwall
A mouthwatering example of a Starry Gazey Pie, served up on Tom Bawcocks Eve (23 December) at Mousehole in Cornwall. The dish, with fish heads and tails sticking out of it, is unique to Mousehole

Group photo, King George V and Queen Mary in India
Group photo, including King George V and Queen Mary with British and Indian dignitaries during their visit to India for the Coronation Durbar ceremony. Date: circa 1911

Front cover of Eve Magazine for Christmas 1927 1927

Malmedy Massacre, 1944
The bodies of two American soldiers (with a medics hat between them) lie semi-buried in the snow, two of the eighty-four victims of the Malmedy Massacre

Nakajima Ki-44 Army Type 2 Tojo -among the first of the Japanese fighters to forsake agility for speed and punch Entered service with Army in December 1941

Great Northern War (1700-1721). Swedish cavalry squadron in the Battle of Gadebusch of December 20, 1712 against the troops of Denmark, Norway and Saxony

Bomb damage at the Guildhall, City of London, WW2
Bomb damage at the Banqueting Hall of the Guildhall, City of London, on 29 December 1940 during the Second World War. Date: 1940

German cartoon, three allies in the stocks, WW1
First World War cartoon, showing the German view of the allies France, Britain and Russia, seen here in the stocks, with lists of the territory claimed by the Central Powers. Date: December 1917

King Edward VIII in his coronation robes
King Edward VIII (1894-1972), later Duke of Windsor, fictitiously pictured in his coronation robes, a painting by Albert Collings which was to appear in the pre-prepared Coronation Record Number of

Captured German soldier during Battle of the Bulge
A captured German soldier during the Ardennes counter-offensive is shown holding a pair of American army trousers. He may have been a member of the S.S

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