Detachment Collection (page 4)

The Waterloo Tower, Quex Park
The Waterloo Tower was built in 1819 to house a ring of twelve bells for English change ringing. It was the first ring of twelve bells in Kent

Ambulance taking discharged patients
One of the Quex ambulances is parked outside the door of Quex House. A group of patients in hospital blues and nurses are gathered around

The Round Tower, Quex Park in snow in February 1916. This tower was built in 1814 as a signalling station for the owner of Quex Park, John Powell Powell

Quex VAD patients in fancy dress outside the front door of Quex House. There was a collection of dressing up clothes at Quex House and they were used occasionally by the patients to put on plays

Nurses & Patients, Winter Garden, Quex
A group of VAD nurses and patients outside the Winter Garden, Quex Park, dated February 1916. Standing beside her mother, Hannah Powell Commandant

Patients boxing
Quex Park VAD Hospital patients. Entertainments and diversions were a regular part of the life of the hospital. The Quex Park VAD Hospital opened on 15 October 1914 and closed on 31 January 1919

WW1 - Belgian Cavalry in action
WW1 - Recalling the Balaclava Charge, the Belgian Cavalry ride out to attack. The force were covering the Belgian retreat to Louvain. Germans opened fire upon them with machine guns

WW1 - American Artillery Troops at front with 75mm cannon Date: 1918

Voluntary Aid Detachment Nurse, England. World War One Date: 1910s

Queen Victorias Diamond Jubilee - The Naval Detachment
Queen Victorias Jubilee Procession, London - Black and white Victorian lantern slide of the Naval Detachment marching through large crowds along a London street. Part of Box 260 Jubilee. Date: 1897

Greys cigarettes for soldiers
Members of the V.A.D (Voluntary Aid Detachment) who undertook the distribution of 30, 000 cigarettes to soldiers who took part in the Lord Mayors Parade in November 1916

VAD matron and nurses at a French hospital, WW1
A group of VAD nurses, attached to the St Johns Ambulance Assocation, pictured at a hospital in France where they had been since the outbreak of war. The nurses wear arm brassards with the St

Women Nurses WW1 VAD. A Young girl perhaps in the uniform of a VAD - Voluntary Aid detachment, goes Off to the front. Date: circa 1915

Indian infantry marching out from camp in Mesopotamia
A detachment of Indian infantry in Mesopotamia marching out from camp for trench duty, led by the regimental bag-pipes and a drummer. Date: 1918

Queen Mary inspects the Womens Land Army, WW1
Queen Mary inspects a detachment of the Womens Land Army which marched through London with the object of attracting recruits in March 1918. Date: 1918

Bavarian machine-gun detachment of the German army, 1914
Bavarian machine-gun detachment of the German army, carrying telescopes and range-finders. Date: 1914

Hospital nurses boarding a train to Portsmouth during WWI
Women volunteered in their thousands to become nurses during the first few months of World War I. Here a detachment of nurses board a train from London Waterloo to Portsmouth to work with the British

Lady Perrott, formerly Ethel Lucy Hare, first Lady Superintendent-in-Chief of the St John Ambulance Brigade. This meant that she took charge of all St John nursing divisions

R. A. M. C. Sanitary Detachment
The Sanitary Detachment of the Royal Army Medical Corps, whose role was to test water and inspect food on the front line. Date: August 1914

Mount Hood, Oregon
A cavalry detachment crosses the plain before Mount Hood, in the Cascade range, the highest peak in Oregon. Date: 1857

Attack of the French Squadron under Mons. Bompart Chef d Escadre, upon the Coast of Ireland by a Detachment of His Majestys Ships under Command of Sir J. B. Warren, Oct. 12th 1798 (1799)

Queen Marys Coronation gift, Barn House, Whitstable, Kent

American soldiers under cover, France, WW1
American soldiers of a Signal Corps detachment, 102nd Infantry, 26th Division, under cover before laying wire near Chateau Thierry, northern France, during the First World War. Date: 19 July 1918

British detachment landing at Reval (Tallinn), WW1
A British detachment landing at Reval (now Tallinn, Estonia) just after the end of the First World War, to instruct the Estonians in the use of the Madsen gun. Date: December 1918

Allied scouts cross a Burmese Jungle stream. Poised for action, a scouting detachment of armed Burmese patriot fighters, accompanied by two American soldiers

The Ceremony of the Keys, Tower of London, 1875
Engraving showing part of the Ceremony of the Keys at one of the gates of the Tower of London, 1875. A detachment of guardsmen, in their bearskin hats

Insurgents on the March
The Brzzezinski detachment of insurgents arrives at Pieskowa-Skala

Cossacks at Zagarowo
Cossacks attack the Brzezinski detachment of insurgents at Zagarowo

Red Army Cavalry
The legendary horsemanship of the Cossacks ensures that the Red Army cavalry is uniquely effective : this detachment pose for their photograph in a Ukrainian village

The Portuguese Army attempts to seize a railway train, South
Engraving showing the encounter between a British operated steam train and a detachment of the Portuguese army, Delagoa Bay, South East Africa, 1889

Soldiers at Camberley
An officer leads a detachment of the Officers Training Corps, Mytchett, at the camp at Camberley, Surrey

Escalading an Obstacle
Advancing troops must overcome every obstacle : this French infantry detachment is making an escalade over a sand dune

Holloway Prison / Mayhew
The treadmill (treadwheel) and oakum shed with a detachment of prisoners at work at the wheel, and those who have been relieved, are employed to pick oakum

World War I / Nieuport
A German infantry detachment finds itself surrounded by water and under fire in a hamlet south of Nieuport, West Flanders

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