Departing Collection (page 3)

Soldier and family at Victoria train station, WW1
Illustration showing soldiers either returning home from the front or returning to France at Victoria Station accompanied by anxious wives and families. Date: 1915

Departure of Irish emigrants
Poverty-stricken Irish folk waiting on the railway platform for a train to take them to the port for embarkation to America or elsewhere

Free buffet for soldiers & sailor, Victoria station, WW1
The free buffet for soldiers and sailors at Victoria Station, staffed by volunteers during the First World War to provide free food and drink to soldiers and sailors returning from the Front

Quayside scene, George V departing France, WW1
A quayside scene as King George V departs France after a visit to the Western Front during World War One. The Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII) can be seen standing on the right. Date: circa 1916

The Va et Vient at Rout and Revel by H. C
A typical scene outside a great London mansion (now sadly the majority have been demolished) showing smart society coming and going, or taking the night air on the steps to avoid the crush inside

A balloon departing from Monmouth

Twixt Love and Duty - WW1 - Soldiers leaving for the front say goodbye to their loved ones at the railway station. Date: circa 1915

Volos, Greece - Rue Demetriados - photograph shows a parade of Greek soldiers heading off to fight against Bulgaria in the Second Balkan War of June/August 1913. Date: circa 1913

Thessaloniki, Greece, Greek Volunteers leave for Sedd el Bar
Thessaloniki, Greece - Greek Volunteers leave for Sedd el Bahr (Seddulbahir) a village in the district of Eceabat, Canakkale Province, located at Cape Helles on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey

The port of Naples - Departing Ferry Date: 1905

Hampshire - Cowes, Isle of Wight - The Pontoon. (see: 10909671 for the departure of a very similar vessel for Cowes from Lymington) Date: circa 1910s

WW1 - German soldiers on a train on their way to the front
German soldiers on a train on their way to the front in Germany. On the train are inscribed messages showing enthusiasm of the departing soldiers. Date: circa 1915

Franco-British Exhibition - Edward VII & President Fallieres
Franco-British Exhibition, White City, London - King Edward VII (1841-1910) & French President Clement Armand Fallieres (1841-1931) leaving the Royal Pavilion. Date: 1908

Patriotic Postcard WWI - American - Sending sons to serve
What can we (the American people) do for Home and Country? We can give our sons for service for Old Glory. The sender of the card has (rather touchingly)

Dashing to give train passenger his change
Urgent - a frantic newspaper boy dashes along the platform to give an elderly train passenger his change for the paper he has purchased

SS Monas Queen leaving port at Fleetwood, Lancashire
SS Monas Queen leaving the harbour at Fleetwood, Lancashire. Date: circa 1907

Steamer leaving for Marine Gardens, Bermuda Date: circa 1909

Steamer leaving Inverurie for Marine Gardens, Bermuda
Steamer leaving Inverurie for Marine Gardens, Paget West, Bermuda Date: circa 1910s

Lieutenant-Commander A C Read USN
Lieutenant-Commander A.C. Read, USN, who commanded the Curtiss NC-4 flying boat which accomplished the first aerial crossing of the Atlantic ocean (by stages via the Azores)

Passengers departing a Vickers Viscount 744 N7402
Passengers departing a Vickers Viscount 744, N7402, of Capital Airlines

Passengers departing a Vickers Viscount 744 of Capital Airlines

Short Sandringham 6 LN-IAU Bamse Brakar
Short Sandringham 6, LN-IAU, Bamse Brakar, of Norwegian airline DNL, departing from Belfast Lough on its delivery flight

One of the Montgolfier brothers departing from England (18th c.). Engraving

FABRIS, Pietro (1756-1779). Charles III of Spain departing from the bay of Naples. SPAIN. Madrid. Royal Palace. Oil on canvas

Boats arriving and departing from a port in Argentina, 19th century. Oil on canvas

Massey Shaw fireboat, Victoria Embankment, Blackfriars
The London Fire Brigades fireboat Massey Shaw being stowed with an anchor chain whilst alongside its moorings at the Blackfriars river fire station, its base station

Departing by balloon

Airship powered by an electric motor developed by Albert and Gaston Tissandier departing from Auteuil, Paris, France, October 8, 1883. Date 1883

Ford V 8 saloon advertisement 1935
Advertisement for Ford Motor Company Limited, showing a smart, black new V-8 Saloon de Luxe arriving at a port, prompting all onlookers to wave in admiration. Date: 1935

War Correspondents fly to France, 1939
British and American war correspondents prepare to fly to France in the early weeks of World War II. All wear officers uniform but without the usual distinguishing marks of rank

Departure of the army works corp from London Bridge for Crim
Departure of the Army Works Corp from London Bridge for the Crimea. About 450 men, consisting of mechanics and labourers, embarked on two Watermens steamers which conveyed them to the steamship Hansa

Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, 1951
Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret at Liverpool Street Station, London, to bid farwell to the departing King and Queen of Denmark. Date: 11th May 1951

American troops in New York, departing for France, WW1
American troops marching through New York before departing for France during the First World War. Date: 1917-1918

Prince Charles and Princess Anne waving from train as they depart from Ballater Station, Scotland, after holidaying at Balmoral Castle. Date: 1953

A Crack Truffle-hunting team setting out, France
A Crack Truffle-hunting team setting out, Lot, France. The fruits of their sniffing, snuffling and truffling labours can be seen in the basket on the right. Date: circa 1908

Departing for the royal tour of Australia&New Zealand, 1927
Leaving their London home in Bruton Street after saying goodbye to their little daughter Princess Elizabeth, the Duke and Duchess of York, later King George VI and the Queen Mother

People waving their hats at the waterside, WW1
A row of people, some of them waving their hats, at the waterside somewhere in the UK during the First World War. They are possibly waving goodbye to men departing to fight in the war

General Frankenberg of Germany and his departing troops
General Werner von Frankenberg und Proschlitz (1868-1933), Prussian army officer who served in the Middle East during the First World War. Seen here with his departing troops. Date: circa 1917

Saying farewell to family - WWI
A departing British Royal Navy Sailor saying farewell to his wife and son as his troop train departs for port and then onward to battle in the First World War. Date: 1915

Troops leaving for the Front
Emotional scene at Victoria train station in London, showing soldiers bidding farewell to their loved ones before departing for the Front in France

Ferry transporting railway wagons
A wonderful nightime photograph of the Suffolk Ferry departing Harwich with a load of railway wagons. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

The Landing for Coruisk, Loch Scavaig, Skye

Duke and Duchess of Connaught leave for South Africa
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (1850-1942), and his wife, Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia (Louise Margaret Alexandra Victoria Agnes)

R. M. S. Ormonde leaving Sydney
R.M.S. Ormonde leaving Sydney, Australia in a mass of streamers

The Terraces - Monte Carlo with departing Steam Packet

Bowness Ferry Boat
The departing Bowness Ferry boat on the way to Furness Abbey, transporting two horse-drawn carriages across Lake Windermere, Cumbria

Its a Long Way to Tipperary - WWI
Its a Long Way to Tipperary - but we ll be back there soon. A postcard full of hope at the beginning of World War One as a group of jolly Britsih soldiers head off to the Western Front.~Postcard by

Women departing on Pilgrimage
Turkish women in Mostar, Bosnia Herzegovina, heading off on pilgrimage to Mecca wearing all-enveloping black burkas. Their children are wishing them farewell in the top-rght inset image

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