Explosion Collection (page 7)

Austro-Hungarian battleship at sea, WW1
An Austro-Hungarian battleship at sea during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

German poster giving air raid instructions, WW1
A German poster giving air raid instructions, warning of danger from enemy aircraft, and telling vehicles not to stop in this location. Date: 1914-1918

Italian naval action with sailors in a boat, WW1
Italian naval action at sea during the First World War, with sailors in a boat in the foreground. Date: 1915-1918

Cavalry Charge - World War One
A propaganda patriotic postcard from World War One, showing a cavalry charge. " Theirs not ro reason why" For King and Country! Date: circa 1910s

Derelict ship being blown up, WW1
A derelict ship being blown up during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

British attack, Fort Dschang, Cameroon, Africa, WW1
British attack on Fort Dschang, German Cameroon, west central Africa, during the First World War. Showing the blowing up of the main gateway. Date: 1914

Aerial photograph of a battlefield, France, WW1
Aerial photograph (French) of a battlefield on the western front in France or Belgium, described as Les Carrieres d Hauchemont (Orchimont?), during the First World War. Date: 22 June 1917

Aerial photograph, Fort Douaumont, France, WW1
Aerial photograph (British) of a bomb exploding in Fort Douaumont, north eastern France, during the First World War. The village of Douaumont was destroyed during the Battle of Verdun

Howitzer smoke barrage, Salisbury Plain, WW1
A smoke barrage from a 4.5 inch Howitzer, formed by ten shells bursting similtaneously, during the First World War. Probably at the Chemical Warfare School at Porton on Salisbury Plain

Naval gun firing behind Canadian lines, Vimy Ridge, WW1
A naval gun firing over Vimy Ridge behind Canadian lines at night on the Western Front in northern France during the First World War. Date: May 1917

Prams, Babies & Mothers
Population explosion: prams and babies lined up outside a building in Ware, Hertfordshire; several women mind the children Date: circa 1965

Scene of mine disaster at Wellington Pit
The under-seas tomb of over a hundred men. The scene of the great mine disaster at Whitehaven: Wellington Pit, which extends five miles under the Irish Sea

Chalked message at Wellington Pit
The Wellington Pit explosion and fire at Whitehaven on 11th May 1910 was one of Britains worst mining disasters in which 136 men and boys lost their lives

Explosion at Faversham
The remains of a gun cotton or gun powder mill at Favershams Marsh Works, Kent, which was destroyed in a violent explosion in 1847. The blast was so strong that it was heard 17 miles away

Double page spread in a diary for 14-19 May
A double page spread in a young persons diary for 14-19 May. Each day is given a small illustration, relating either to the season, or to the anniversary of an historical event

Double page spread in a diary for 10-15 December
A double page spread in a young persons diary for 10-15 December. Each day is given a small illustration, relating either to the season, or to the anniversary of an historical event

Artists impression of a colliery explosion
An artists impression of a colliery explosion caused by firedamp, used in lectures on mining, taken from the Illustrated London News

Mine explosion WWI
Mine explosion in a German occupied wood prior to an infantry attack during World War I on the Western Front

German WWI War Loans poster
German war loans poster showing the looming body of a tank against a sky littered with shell explosions

Lieutenant Rex Warneford - WWI Ace Hero
On 7 June 1915 at Ghent, Belgium, Reginald ( Rex ) Alexander John Warneford, VC (1891- 1915), a Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) officer, flying a Morane-Saulnier Type L

Bomb Explosion
The explosion after a German bomb during World War I

Warneford attacks Zeppelin at Ghent
On 7 June 1915 at Ghent, Belgium, Reginald Alexander John Warneford, VC (1891- 1915), a Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) officer, flying a Morane-Saulnier Type L

Blowing up bridge WWII
Blowing up bridge during World War II

Battle of Ginchy
British troops move up to support the attack near Ginchy. In the foreground a soldier ducks in reaction to the explosion occurring behind the advancing rank of troops

Armetieres 1918
A British shell bursting in Armentieres and a soldier running to evacuate the town on the Western Front in France during World War I in April 1918

First Battle of the Scarpe 1917
An exploding dump in Arras during the First Battle of the Scarpe (First Battles of Arras) on the Western Front in France during World War I in April 1917

Mine exploding 1917
A mine exploding at the Battle of Arras on the Western Front in France during World War I in 1917

Explosion 1917
Explosion in a house set on fire by the enemy in Mons-en-Chaussee in France on the British front during World War I in March 1917

Tower of London 1885
The scene after an explosion in the White Tower at the Tower of London. The attack was carried out by Fenians, one of a number of similar attacks by the Irish Nationalists in 1885

Destroying barbed wire 1916
The destruction of barbed wire, smashed by exploding Trench Mortars

Booby Trap
A British soldier sets off a booby trap on the Western Front in Belgium during World War I in 1917

Houplines explosion 1916
A shell bursts at Houplines, near Armentieres on the Western Front

Hawthorne Ridge 1916
A huge mine is exploded at Hawthorne Ridge, near Beaumont Hamel, signalling the start of the Battle of the Somme. The massive explosion alerted the German forces to the imminent British attack

Battle of Ypres
Enemy shell bursts during the third battle of Ypres, Passchendale during World War I on 4th September 1917

Fire Damage at Union Workhouse, Knighton, Radnorshire
A view of the damage caused by a gas explosion at the Knighton Union workhouse, Radnorshire (now Powys), Wales, in December 1907

Manchester Ship Canal - The dramatic opening of a new dock
The dramatic opening of a new dock on the Manchester Ship Canal. A charge is detonated to break a temporary levee across the entrance to the new dock

Mine explosion 1916
Mine explosion on the French front during World War I in 1916

Members of the rescue parties at Gresford Colliery, Wales
Equipped with oxygen apparatus, these are some of the men who battled for a day and a half to save the lives of miners who had been trapped by flames following an explosion in the mine

Waiting for the news of the Missing, Gresford Colliery
After an explosion in the mine flames trapped the miners and efforts were made to rescue them. The crowd that had gathered could only stand by and wait for news

Wrecked boat hit by a mine
The effect of a mine explosion on a wrecked boat in Southend during World War I

Land Mine explosion 1918
Explosion of a land mine on the Western Front in France during World War I in 1918

Second Battle of Cambrai 1918
Explosion of a German time bomb in Cambrai (Nord) during the Second Battle of Cambrai on the Western Front in France during World War I in October 1918

Home Guard demonstration
During a Home Guard intensive training course at Osterley Park, in the west London suburbs, a car pulling a trailer, supposed to represent a tank

Ansells Fire-Damp Indicator, 1880
Engraving showing the instrument, designed by Ansell, for the detection of fire-damp in underground mines, 1880. If fire-damp gases built up then the risk of explosion increased

British Soldiers advance in Tunisia; Second World War, 1943
Photograph showing British infantrymen advancing towards enemy positions in Tunisia, North Africa, during 1943. The explosion

British soldiers in a mine-crater
British soldiers are pictured in a crater captured from the German army. The crater was created by the explosion of an Allied mine buried beneath enemy lines

Land-mine explosion
Photograph showing the upheaval of earth and debris as a land-mine explodes. A frequent characteristic of siege warfare, the landmine could destroy huge section of trenches

Mine crater
Aerial view of a crater formed by a mine explosion on the Western Front, 1915

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