Defence Collection (page 20)

Belgian troops defending Antwerp, WW1
Three scenes showing Belgian troops defending Antwerp in the early days of the First World War. Top: soldiers preparing to fire from a railway engine near Malines

Cartoon, One Who Might Have Helped, WW1
Cartoon, One Who Might Have Helped. Showing Lord Kitchener and General Pau, defenders of France at the start of the First World War, sitting at a desk with books and maps

Belgian troops in Termonde, WW1
Belgian troops in Termonde (Dendermonde), Belgium, during the early stages of the First World War. The town had been badly damaged during a German attempt to advance

Ground defence against enemy air attacks, WW1
Examples of ground defence against enemy air attacks during the First World War. Showing bomb-dropping by hand from an aeroplane, an aeroplane being transported on a military motor

Cartoon and portraits, Kluck! Kluck!, WW1
Cartoon and portraits, Kluck! Kluck! A comment on the defeat of General Alexander von Kluck in the Battle of the Marne, turning the German invaders away from Paris in the early days of the First

Cartoon, Holidays as Usual, WW1
Cartoon, Holidays as Usual. Mr Jones goes bathing at a seaside resort in the early days of the First World War, not heeding the warnings about submarines being on the lookout for the enemy

An air raid warden for Kingston setting the blackout time for the day. London

German air raiders caught out by G. H. Davis
How German air raiders are caught in the toils of British defence during the Second World War. The effect of the anti-aircraft barrage on raiding bombers

Advert for the National Savings Committee 1942
The gift that grows. National Savings gift tokens. Heres the simple answer to all your gift problems this christmas - gift tokens

British submarine A7 which failed to come to the surface
Diagram of British submarine A7 which failed to come to the surface while exercising in Whitsand Bay, Cornwall, was one of the oldest submarines left (at the time)

Hotchkiss Machine Gun
Hotchkiss machine-gun on a parapet mounting, adapted for use as a fortress defence Date: August 1914

Moulainville Fort, Verdun, France, WW1
View of Moulainville Fort, Verdun, north-eastern France, which saw action during the Battle of Verdun, First World War, successfully resisting the enemy. Date: circa 1916

Poster, Italian liberation, Piave, Italy, WW1
Italian fundraising poster during the First World War, showing a soldier about to sink an axe into a large encroaching hand on the other side of the Piave River. Date: circa 1917-1918

Nicosia defended, 1570-1
Nicosia, Cyprus, defended against the Turks. Date: 1570-1

Searchlights near Nancy, France, WW1
Searchlights on the lookout for German Zeppelin airships near Nancy, France, at the start of the First World War. August 1914

Advert from the National Saving Committee 1942
Its just a game to-day, to-morrow he ll be in earnest. His dad say hes a bright boy with a bright future. But what are his chance of real success

Advert for Saving Bonds for your childrens future 1942
Playing at it to-day - tomorrow he ll be in earnest. Today he plays... tomorrow he lives - for hes one of the people of tomorrow. His turn will come

Convoy system of the British Navy, 1939
British warships, with guns ready for action, provide guard for merchant vessels under convoy from this country. This system operated in the North Sea to protect against merchant ships being sunk by

Lord Elcho, Vanity Fair, Ape
FRANCIS RICHARD CHARTERIS, 10th Earl of Wemyss (1818-1914), styled as Lord Elcho between 1853 and 1883. British Whig politician

Catherine Segurane
When the Turks attack Nice (at this time part of Savoy) Catherine Segurane, a laundress, seizes a flag in one hand and a sword in the other and leads the defence. Date: Summer 1543

How Lieutenant Colonel Forbes-Robertson Saved the Western Li
Forbes-Robertson won the Victoria Cross saved the defence line by making a rapid reconnaisance on horse-back in full view of the enemy under machine gun and close range shell fire

Franz Totleben - 4
FRANZ EDVARD IVANOVICH, count TOTLEBEN Russian military engineer, best known for his brilliant defence of Sebastopol in the Crimea war. Date: 1818 - 1884

Franz Totleben - 5
FRANZ EDVARD IVANOVICH, count TOTLEBEN Russian military engineer, best known for his brilliant defence of Sebastopol in the Crimea war. Date: 1818 - 1884

Franz Totleben - 2
FRANZ EDVARD IVANOVICH, count TOTLEBEN Russian military commander, best known for his brilliant defence of Sebastopol in the Crimea war. Date: 1818 - 1884

Henry Arthur Jones
HENRY ARTHUR JONES Playwright - author of The silver king and Mrs Danes defence. Date: 1851 - 1929

George Baron Heathfield
GEORGE AUGUSTUS ELLIOTT, first baron HEATHFIELD British military commander, noted for his defence of Gibraltar. Date: 1717 - 1790

From left: Duncan Sandys, Minister of Aviation, and Pete?
From left: Duncan Sandys, Minister of Aviation, and Peter Masefield, RAeS President 1959-1960, both discussed the White paper on Defence in their speeches at the 94th Anniversary Luncheon at

Clothing - Air Raid Victims - Queen Elizabeth & Lady Reading
Inspecting a clothes distribution scheme for Air Raid victims (which have arrived in Britain from New Zealand) - a visit by Queen Elizabeth & Eva Violet Isaacs (neaMond), Marchioness of Reading

WW2 - Comic Postcard - Sandcastle with lack of barbed wire
Winston Churchill: " This is a time for everyone to stand together and hold firm!". Lady in deckchair watching her son build a sandcastle in a garden sandpit: " There

Spithead Fort is one of the Martello Towers built in 1804 as a defence against the anticipated French invasion of England. They are retained as coastal defences Date: circa 1910

US Sailors and Swedish Coastal Artillerymen - Stockholm
Two US battleships of the 2nd Division of the Atlantic Fleet, of USS Connecticut class. Namely USS Louisiana (BB-19), Kansas (BB-21) and/or the New Hampshire (BB-25)

Coastal gun protecting the Canadian seaboard - WW2
Ponderous coastal gun protecting the Canadian seaboard - WW2 Date: circa 1940

Striking Arabian Girl - Morocco. Note the primitive-form Hamsa (Fatimas hand) amulet, worn throughout the Middle East and North Africa

Prince of Wales Martello Tower, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
The Prince of Wales Martello Tower in Point Pleasant Park, Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada. Nine of the fourteen Martello towers built in Canada still survive

The German line of defence - Battle of the Somme - WWI
The German line of defence between Curlu and Hem-Monacu - Battle of the Somme - WWI. Date: circa 1916

London by Night - Searchlights crossing the night sky over the capital. Date: circa 1940s

Cuba - Walls of Fort Havana, Havana
Fortaleza de San Carlos de la Cabana, known as La Cabana (Fort of Saint Charles) - an 18th-century fortress complex, located on the elevated eastern side of the harbour entrance in Havana, Cuba

Fortaleza de San Carlos de la Cabana, Havana, Cuba
Fortaleza de San Carlos de la Cabana, known as La Cabana (Fort of Saint Charles) - an 18th-century fortress complex, located on the elevated eastern side of the harbour entrance in Havana, Cuba

Anti-Aircraft Gun Team - World War Two. Date: circa 1942

Col The Hon J L Ralston
Col The Hon J.L. Ralston, Minister of National Defence, Canadian Government, pronouncing the official welcome to the crew of the R100

South African gas alarm post trench sentry, 1917
Soldier ready to ring the bell to give warning to a gas attack. In the Western Front they took gas attacks as " all in the days work"

Sphoeroides sp. pufferfish
Tableau 23 by Albertus Seba from his Thesaurus, Vol 3, 1759

Iguanodon thumb spike
A fossil thumb spike that once belonged to Iguanodon, a herbivorous dinosaur that lived 140 to 110 million years ago. It is though to have used its sharp ended thumb to defend itself against predators

Spain. Peninsular War (1808-1814). The Second of May in Madrid (1808). Defence of the Montele󮠐 ark, episode in which Luis Daoiz and Pedro Velarde died. Copy by A

Spain (1810-1814). Cadiz Cortes. Defence of the
" Spain (1810-1814). Cadiz Cortes. Defence of the Cadiz Constitutuion. Image published in " la Ilustraci󮠅 spa񯬡 y Americana"."

MONLEON Y TORRES, Rafael (1835-1900). Defence of the Havana Promontory (1st july 1862). 1873. Seven Years War. Attack of the British fleet to the Spanish bastion. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. Madrid

Colonial Africa. French defence post in Upper Niger (1891). Etching

CARRERO BLANCO, Lu�(1903-1973). Spanish admiral
CARRERO BLANCO, Lu� (1903-1973). Spanish admiral and Franquist politician, murdered by ETA in 1973 when he was the Spanish president. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. Madrid

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