Defence Collection (page 21)

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

Advert for buying Defence Bonds in WW2 1941
Advert issued by The National Savings Committee, london. When the axis crumbles before the thunder of British tanks, will you be able to say.... I played my part to the full. Buy 3% Defence Bonds

Advert for buying 3% savings bonds in WW2 1942

Advert for The National Savings Committee 1940
This year make your holiday weeks National Savings Week ! In 1940 The National Savings Committee asked that the general public put aside the thought of going away on holiday

War Weapons Week and London Fire Brigade fireboats, WW2
The London Fire Brigades fireboat Massey Shaw (which took part in the Dunkirk evacuations) and a fire float are moored at Westminster pier whilst their crews are promoting War Weapons Week

Royal visit to County Hall Civil Defence workers, WW2
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth visiting Londons Civil Defence organisations, including the London Fire Brigade (then incorporated into the National Fire Service)

Royal visit to LCC County Hall to meet Civil Defence workers
Queen Elizabeth visits Londons Civil Defence organisations, including the London Fire Brigade (incorporated into the National Fire Service), at the London County Council Headquarters, County Hall

Abbotscliff sound mirror 1932
Abbotscliff sound mirror, used for anti-aircraft defence 1932 Date: 1932

Sound mirror for anti-aircraft defence 1924 Date: 1924

Kossuth, president of the committee of the defence of Hungary

Timbys cordon of revolving towers, for harbor defence

British Army lands in France, 1939
British Army landing in France after crossing the Channel aboard steamers accompanied by destroyers to protect against enemy submarines

Spitfires under construction, 1939
Spitfire fighter aircraft being manufactured in an undisclosed location in England. Each powered with a supercharged Rolls Royce engine, they were the fastest fighting aeroplanes in service in 1939

British Army on board ship on the way to France, 1939
British soldiers on board a Channel steamer on their way to France, all wearing lifebelts around their necks in case of an emergency. Date: 1939

Where Richard Montgomery fell, Quebec
A sign showing the location where Richard Montgomery, a brigadier-general in the Continental Army (during the American Revolutionary War) fell whilst leading the failed 1775 invasion of Canada

Defence towers of the Solovetsky Kremlin
Russia, Solovky Islands, Solovetsky. Defence towers of the Solovetsky Kremlin. 2010

Varberg Fortress
The fortress of Varberg, Halland, Sweden 1970s. Date: 1970s

Forced Loans
To pay for the defence of the country, citizens are required to make forced loans : sad to say, these loans will never be repaid... Date: 1795

Newlyn Harbour Wall
The lovely sweeping curve of the harbour wall at Newlyn, a picturesque fishing village near Penzance, Cornwall, England. Date: 1950s

Serbian troops constructing defences, WW1
Serbian troops constructing defences at Prisreud during the First World War. Date: 1914

SMS Wien, Austrian battleship, WW1
SMS Wien, an Austrian pre-dreadnought Monarch class battleship and coastal defence ship, launched 1895, named after the capital city, Vienna

German Naval Corps on Belgian coast, WW1
German Naval Corps of a Marine Artillery Regiment keeping watch against enemy attack on the Belgian coast during the First World War. They are on the sea wall, armed with machine guns

British troops with stakes and fascines, Salonika, WW1
British troops landing wooden stakes and fascines (bundles of wood used in military defences) at Salonika (Salonica, Thessaloniki, Greece) during the First World War. Date: 14 November 1915

Armenian troops in defence of Baku, Armenia, WW1
Armenian troops manning a front line position during the defence of Baku, Armenia, towards the end of the First World War. Date: August 1918

Austrian defence lines, advance on Plevje, WW1
Austro-Hungarian defence lines during the advance on Plevje (Pljevlja, Montenegro), on the eastern front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Zola and Maitre Labori
Maitre Labori, Dreyfuss defence counsel, with Emile Zola who fiercely defended Dreyfus : on the right is Clamenceau, another ally. Date: 1898

Patriotic French postcard, Defending the Flag, WW1
A patriotic French postcard produced during the First World War, entitled Defending the Flag. Showing a French soldier receiving the flag from a dying colleague

German officers who defended Zeebrugge, Belgium, WW1
German officers who defended the sea port of Zeebrugge against British attack during the Zeebrugge Raid (23 April 1918), Belgium, First World War

Amiens Cathedral - Sandbags
Sandbags almost completely filling one of the old entrances to Amiens Cathdral in anticipation of German attack during World War One. Date: 1915

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