East Collection (page 163)

Indian troops at Lejj, Mesopotamia, WW1
Troops of the 6th Indian Division disembarking at Lejj, Mesopotamia, a few days before the Battle of Ctesiphon during the First World War. Date: November 1915

Italian submarine stranded near Tagliamento River
Italian submarine no.10 stranded near the mouth of the Tagliamento River, north east Italy. Date: 20th century

Tethered Austrian balloon on Isonzo front, WW1
A tethered balloon belonging to the Austrian army on the Isonzo front, north east Italy, during the first Battle of the Isonzo, First World War. Date: June-July 1915

British artillery in action, Mesopotamia, WW1
British artillery in action in Mesopotamia (now Iraq) during the First World War. Date: circa 1915-1918

British Howitzer gun in action, Samarra, WW1
A British 6-inch 3-cwt Howitzer gun in action at Samarra, Mesopotamia (now Iraq) during the First World War. Date: 1918

Allied action at Arsuf, Middle East, WW1
Allied action on the Mediterranean coast at Arsuf in the Middle East (now in Israel) during the First World War. Sandbag defences are being held by the 2nd Battalion Black Watch

Arab mounted police, Mesopotamia, WW1
Arab mounted police crossing the bed of an ancient canal in Mesopotamia during the First World War. Date: 1918

Indian soldier after the Siege of Kut, WW1
An Indian soldier in an emaciated condition after the Siege of Kut (1916), Mesopotamia (now Iraq), during the First World War. Date: circa 1916

British battery in action, Samarra, WW1
A British 6-inch 26-cwt battery in action at Samarra, Mesopotamia (now Iraq) during the First World War. Date: 1918

British 60-pounder guns in action, Samarra, WW1
British 60-pounder guns in action at Samarra, Mesopotamia (now Iraq) during the First World War. Date: 1918

Busy communication trench, Mesopotamia, WW1
A busy communication trench in Mesopotamia (now Iraq) during an action, with walking wounded and stretcher cases, during the First World War. Date: circa 1915-1918

British troops marching to El Arish, Egypt, WW1
British troops of the 1/11th London Regiment, 162nd Infantry Brigade, 54th East Anglian Division (Desert Column) marching to El Arish, North Sinai, Egypt, during the First World War

Women refugees sewing army clothing, Baghdad, WW1
Women refugees sewing army clothing in Baghdad, Mesopotamia (now Iraq) during the First World War. One woman is using a Singer automatic sewing machine. Date: 1917

Desert columns at El Magdhaba, Egypt, WW1
Desert columns at El Magdhaba, on the Sinai peninsula, Egypt, during the First World War. Date: 11 June 1917

Desert column at El Magdhaba, Egypt, WW1
A desert column at El Magdhaba, on the Sinai peninsula, Egypt, during the First World War. Date: 11 June 1917

Arabs in a street in Kut Al Amara, Mesopotamia, WW1
Arabs in a street in Kut Al Amara, Mesopotamia (now Iraq), during the First World War. Date: circa 1915-1918

Street in Kut Al Amara, Mesopotamia, WW1
A street in Kut Al Amara, Mesopotamia (now Iraq), during the First World War. Date: circa 1915-1918

Indian soldiers after the Siege of Kut, WW1
Indian soldiers in an emaciated condition after the Siege of Kut (1916), Mesopotamia (now Iraq), during the First World War. Date: circa 1916

Allied troops in Mesopotamia, WW1
Allied troops (mostly of the Indian Army) next to a railway line in Mesopotamia during the First World War. Sixteen men are needed to carry each rail. Date: 1916-1918

Allied troops with camels, Mesopotamia, WW1
The 1st Battalion Connaught Rangers and 3rd (Lahore) Division with camels at Warley Wood, their base in Mesopotamia towards the end of the First World War. They are offloading the days water supply

HMS Severn off the coast of German East Africa, WW1
The British Humber class monitor, HMS Severn, off the coast of German East Africa during the First World War. The fore 6 inch gun can be seen during preparations for the attack on the German cruiser

Engraved Board
The bizarrely engraved board of the Knight of the East and West, illuminated by the " magic lamp". Date: 1890s

Kenya, Africa - General Post Office Nairobi Date: circa 1910s

Djibouti, Two women water carriers
A very odd photographic postcard from Djibouti, East Africa, featuring two women of starkly differing physical stature. On the left is a small woman smoking a large cigarette

Djibouti, East Africa - Avenue de la Republique. It is nice to compare the difference between the colonial French mode of transportation

HMS Espiegle at Basra, Mesopotamia, WW1
Deck view of the British sloop HMS Espiegle at Basra, Mesopotamia (now Iraq) during the First World War, around the time the port was captured by Anglo-Indian forces. 1915

Rotterdam - The Netherlands - Lage Oostzeedijk - Lower East promenade (with dyke wall visible) Date: circa 1905

Poster advertising trips to Iran, featuring an ancient sculpture. 20th century

Poster advertising trips to Japan, featuring a geisha in a red kimono. 20th century

Poster, Red Cross ambulance
Poster depicting a Red Cross ambulance. Published by the German Reich, but written in Dutch, it encourages the countrymen of Holland to support the Dutch ambulance service in the east. 1940s

Japanese raid on Singapore
Singapore residents assess the damage done by a Japanese air raid the previous night. Date: January 1942

Singapore after air raid
The pall of smoke over Singapore after a Japanese air raid. The Battle for Singapore lasted sixteen days until surrender to the Japanese on 15 February 1942. Date: February 1942

British refugees from Penang, Malaya, on their way to Singapore, are provided with refreshments by local residents at Ipoh Station, in Perak

Japanese army cross Singapore causeway
Japanese forces cross the causeway from Malaya to Singapore. Malaya had been taken from the retreating British and Commonwealth forces at the end of January 1942

Manchester Regiment in Malaya
Three members of the 1st Battalion Manchester Regiment, stationed in the Far East, part of the British and Commonwealth defence force of Malaya and Singapore

Australian troops train in Malaya
Australian troops train in the thick jungle of Malaya, in anticipation of the Japanese invasion, which came in December 1941. Date: 1941

Brigadier General L. W. P. East, CMG, DSO
Brigadier General L.W.P. East, CMG, DSO, Royal Artillery officer during the First World War. Date: circa 1918

1930s slum back yards, Limehouse

Landslip at Blackrock, Brighton, East Sussex Date: 1910

1930s poor housing at Shadwell, Stepney
Women and children in a passageway between blocks of poor housing in the Shadwell district of Stepney in Londons East End. Date: circa 1936

Scullery in slum at Limehouse

Irish Scouts at a wayside cross
Irish Scouts, on a hike with rucksacks, stopped at a wayside cross in Glencree, County Wicklow, Ireland. 1960s

Air Scouts taking off in glider
A Slingsby T.21 Glider taking off with Air Scouts at the controls at Lasham Gliding Centre. 1960s

Scout glider in flight
Slingsby T.21 Glider flying with Air Scouts at the controls at Lasham Gliding Centre. 1960s

Alexandru Marghiloman signing Peace Treaty, Romania
Alexandru Marghiloman (1854-1925), Romanian Prime Minister, signing a Peace Treaty (known as the Treaty of Bucharest) with Germany and Austria in the Cotroceni Palace, near Bucharest

Poplar - doorstep cleaning

Air Scout in glider
An Air Scout sits smiling in the cockpit of a glider at Lasham Gliding Centre. 1960s

Proclamation of martial law by General Allenby, Jerusalem
Proclamation of martial law, read in English to the inhabitants by General Sir Edmund Allenby, outside the Tower of David in Jerusalem during the First World War. Date: 11 December 1917

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