Defence Collection (page 24)

Mannerheim line anti-tank defences WWII
Rapidly improvised anti-tank devices are constructed by sawing down trees at a height of 10 feet and banking them up with timber and rock during World War II

Helsinki fortifications WWII
Soldiers constructing fortifications in Helsinki during World War II

Defensive positions WWII
Soldiers wearing camouflage rendering themselves invisible in the snow mount a vigilant guard during the Winter War in Finland during World War II

Aircraft Observer Post, WWII
Aircraft Observer Post, during World War II. Two observers with direction and height finders ready to broadcast directions to head observer command

General de Gaulle in London
Tatler front cover with the headline Petain Answered- General de Gaulle in London. The caption reads Head of the French National Committee formed in London to carry on the war

The Sforza Tower - Milan, Italy, part of the Castello Sforzesco. In the 14th Century a huge defensive castle was built by Galeazzo Visconti II

The art of Bartitsu - weapon in a crowd
Two photographs illustrating How to use a walking-stick as a weapon in a crowd from Self-Defence with a Walking-Stick, an article by Edward William Barton-Wright (1860 - 1951)

The art of Bartitsu - taller man
A sequence of two photographs illustrating A very serviceable way to disable a taller man than yourself when opposed to him under unequal conditions from Self-Defence with a Walking-Stick an article

Workers Defence Force
German Workers Defence Force probably in Munich, Germany in 1921

a Searchlight Battery
SLC radar equipment on an anti-aircraft searchlight battery on the Home Front in England during World War II in 1945

Battles of Arras 1917
Part of the barbed wire entanglement in front of the Hindenburg Line during the Battle of Arras on the Western Front in France during World War I in May 1917

Achiet Marcoing Line 1917
Pioneers constructing a slope on the Achiet Marcoing Line on the Western Front in France during World War I in November 1917

Barbed Wire 1917
German barbed wire entanglement near Arras on the Western Front in France during World War I in June 1917

Digging trenches
British soldiers digging reserve trenches in Oudezeele Nord on the Western Front in Belgium during World War I on 1st June 1918

Tank in barbed wire
A tank crossing through barbed wire on the Western Front in Belgium during World War I in October 1917

King and Queen with ARP wardens in London
King George VI together with Queen Elizabeth chatting with Air Raid Patrol wardens and inspecting bomb damage in South West London during the Blitz, 1940

The Defence of Liege
Belgian forces defend the city of Liege from the German advance during the early days of the war. The German plan to neutralise the twelve modern forts that surrounded the city within two days was

Wayland Union Workhouse, Rockland All Saints, Norfolk
The Wayland Union workhouse at Rockland All Saints, Norfolk. The building, erected in 1836-7, is believed to have been designed by William Thorold or William J Donthorn

American Womens League for Self Defence drilling at the 69th Regiment Quarters, New York

Arras Station - improvised defences
Arras Station - showing the installed improvised brick defences in anticipation of German attack during the First World War

Musket instruction, World War I
Muskeet instruction at the Wandsworth Home Defence Battalion during World War I on 30th November 1914

Architectural Association, Air Raid Section, believed to be the first uniformed Civil Defence Body formed, during World War I in 1916

Home Guard Call up, World War I
Home Guard Call up, London, at the beginning of World War I in 1914

Home Defence, World War I
Home Defence, Wandsworth Battalion digging trenches on Wandsworth Common during World War I in August 1917

V1 bomb counter measures committee, 1944
The chairmen of the war cabinet committee on operational counter measures against the " flying bomb" or V1: Mr. Duncan Sandys, M.P(centre), with leaders who directed the battle

British delegation to NATO, 1953
The British delegation to the NATO council: Mr. Anthony Eden(centre), at this time Foreign Minister, with (left) Lord Alexander, Minister of Defence, and right Mr. Duncan Sandys, Minister of Supply

Tom Titt / Edward Carson
Sir Edward Henry Carson, Baron Carson. Leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, senior barrister and judge. In 1895, he was engaged by the Marquess of Queensberry to lead his defence against Oscar Wildes

Home Guard training against bombers
Training for the Home Guard at Osterley Park, in the suburbs of west London. Riflemen being trained to meet dive-bombing attacks by practising rapid fire against a diving model that represents a 50

Lord Carrington, c. 1980
Photographic portrait of Peter Alexander Rupert Carrington, 6th Baron Carrington (b.1919), the Conservative politician, pictured c.1980 when Secretary of State for Defence

General C. F. Beyers
General Beyers became notorious in the early stages of the war for throwing up command of the South African Union Defence Force, when directing to act against German South-West Africa

French Colonial troops on the defence at Pervyse

British Troops making a stand near Dunkirk; Second World War
Illustration showing Captain Ervine-Andrews (top left) leading his men of the East Lancashire Regiment in a determined stand against an attack by three German Battalions, near Dunkirk, 1940

The Gun Control Room, Britain; Second World War, 1944
Illustration showing the interior of the Gun Control Room, the headquarters of Londons anti-aircraft defences during the Second World War, 1944

Greek troops gathered on the docks at Salonika
A photograph of soldiers loyal to the newly formed Committee of National defence on the docks at the Greek port of Salonika, September 1916

Heathfield / Elliot
George Augustus Elliot (variously spelt but this is correct), made lord HEATHFIELD for his brilliant defence of Gibraltar during the Great Siege by French & Spanish

Franco-Prussian War. The First German in Paris
On January 28th 1871 Paris capitulatd to the Prussians. The Government of National Defence, under Trochu and Gambetta, signs a 3 week armistice with Bismarck to negotiate peace

Franco-Prussian War. The Defence of Paris: Gunboats on the S
Steam driven armoured gunboat flying the french tricolour

Franco-Prussian War: balloon from Paris over Versailles
Crowds in the streets in Versailles watching balloon overhead. During the siege of Paris post came in and out of Paris by balloon and the famous escape of Leon Gambetta

The Tsar saluting troops
Photograph showing Tsar Nicholas II saluting troops during army manouevres. Russia was traditionally seen as the protector of the Slavs and after Austria attacked Hungary in 1914 mobilised troops

The Provisional Government reviewing the National Guard; Fra
Illustration showing the Provisional Government reviewing the National Guard during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1. The Provisional Government of National Defence was set up after the French

The Zulu war. The defence of Rorkes Drift, January 22nd 187
The scene of the action, where 3, 000 zulus attacked the tiny fort and hospital at Rorkes Drift. 140 British soldiers kept the Zulus at bay

The Zulu war. Fort Helpmakaar. Field auction of the effects
Isandlwana was the scene of the British armys most humiliating defeat at the hands of the Zulus, slightly assuaged by the successful defence of Rorkes Drift later the same day, January 22nd 1879

The Zulu war. Graves of the 17 men who fell in the defence o
140 British soldiers defended the fort and hospital at Rorkes Drift from 3, 000 zulu warriors on the same day that the British suffered their heaviest defeat of the war at Isandhlwana

The Zulu war. Alls Well, Sketch in Bromheads Post, New
Zulu war sketches by an ILN special artist. Rorkes Drift was the scene of an heroic defence by the British in January 1879

Conscientious objectors parade for a photograph
Many men refused to bear arms, for a variety of reasons. These men are Quakers and opposed to fighting on religious grounds

Defence of Barricade
Defending the barricade in the boulevard Haussmann

England / Mullion Cove
The breakwater against coastal erosion at Mullion Cove, Cornwall, England

Televising a unit of Londons Land Defence Force against ene
In December 1936 the B.B.C carried out its first transmission from outside at night. A mock air-raid was staged so that Londoners could see how the Territorial Army had prepared itself for the onset

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