Firing Collection (page 10)

Dramatic air battle off Malaya by G. H. Davis
The destruction of HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse: phases in the dramatic air battle off Malaya during the Second World War, when British ships were attacked by Japanese planes. Date: 1941

German air raiders caught out by G. H. Davis
How German air raiders are caught in the toils of British defence during the Second World War. The effect of the anti-aircraft barrage on raiding bombers

Robot guns for British aircraft by G. H. Davis
Robot guns for British aircraft: remotely-controlled turrets. Enabling one gunner to direct fire from numerous different positions

The Croxton outrage by G. H. Davis
One of several German attacks on North Sea fishing trawlers, later countered by arming them: the Croxton outrage. How the unarmed Croxton was machine-gunned and bombed until she sank

Attack on German positions north of the Aisne, France, WW1
Attack on German positions north of the Aisne, northern France, during the First World War, at 6 in the morning. Date: 16 April 1917

Cartoon, Krupps New Man-Throwing Howitzer, WW1
Cartoon, Surprises in Store for England, 1. Krupps New Man-Throwing Howitzer. An imaginary scene showing German soldiers standing inside shell casings, ready to be fired at the enemy

Stage production of The Squaw Man
Stage production of a play, The Squaw Man (written 1905), by Edwin Milton Royle, starring William Faversham (1868-1940) as Captain James Wynnegate. Date: early 20th century

Cartoon, The Continental Sidney Street, WW1
Cartoon, The Continental Sidney Street, showing Kaiser Wilhelm II firing from an upstairs window and French, Russian and British policemen firing back at him

French mortar in action, Western Front, WW1
A French 370 mm mortar gun in action on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Battle of Jutland, WW1
Artists impression of the Battle of Jutland during the First World War. Date: June 1916

French naval gun in action, Western Front, WW1
A French 138.6mm naval gun in action on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Italian light infantrymen with pink blossom, WW1
Italian light infantrymen (Bersaglieri) taking up position with their machine gun behind a cover of pink blossom during the First World War. Date: April 1916

Firing a Howitzer, Western Front, WW1
British gunners firing a Howitzer on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

A 9. 2 Howitzer in action, 1939
Scene at a famous Army school of Artillery in Britain showing some of the latest and heaviest guns in action with men being trained to use them

English public schoolboys at Bisley
Boys from Harrow School and University College firing at 500 yards as volunteer marksmen at Bisley. The National Rifle Association was established in 1860 to encourage

On the Somme Battlefield, with the French
A French soldier in a trench working a machine gun. Date: 1916

On the Somme Battlefield, with the French 1916
French artillerymen taking 240mm shells up to the firing guns. Date: 1916

French soldiers, with bayonets fixed, capture a German Field
French infantry charging into the woods to capture a German artillery piece. The event took place near Champagne. One German officer can be seen firing a Luger pistol. 1916

Training with Hotchkiss Machinegun - Aldershot
Training with a Hotchkiss Machinegun - Aldershot. Date: 1916

The pilot and navigator carry out final checks of a de ?
The pilot and navigator carry out final checks of a de Havilland Firestreak air-to-air missile on a de Havilland Venom at Hatfield prior to firing the weapon over the test range at Aberporth

France - Sevres Porcelain Manufacture - The Kiln Date: circa 1905

Japan - Drill for Japanese Sailors on deck of HIJMS Asama during the Russo-Japanese War (8th February 1904 5th September 1905). The card was sent on 25th June 1904. Date: 1904

Sir John Eldon Gorst sends 8th Duke of Devonshire into well
The Story of the Duke and the Bunnygorst (cont.). Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire (1833-1908) as a rather lazy layabout

Three schoolboys on desert island shoot at sparrows using makeshift bows and arrows made out of laces, bones and saplings. Date: 1898

WW1 - Thessaloniki, Greece - Practising firing at submarines
WW1 - Thessaloniki, Greece - Sailors of the International Expeditionary Force stationed at Thessaloniki practise firing at submarines. Date: circa 1916

Thessaloniki, Greece - Patriotic Ottoman Empire Card (when Thessaloniki was still under Ottoman control), showing a shooting exercise by Cavalry troops in the Champ de Mars. Date: circa 1903

Canteen van - tea for anti-aircraft gun crew
Raiders overhead! Mugs of tea provided from a canteen car - the greatest boon to anti-aircraft crews, who, month after month stuck by their guns and shot down so many Luftwaffe aircraft

Poole Pottery - Setting the glazed ware in the kiln
Setting the glazed ware in the kiln. Poole Pottery was founded in 1873 on Poole quayside, where it continued to produce pottery by hand before moving its factory operations away from the quay in

Two Algerian soldiers firing from behind the cover of a cart. Date: circa 1915

WWI - French drive the Prussians back into the Marne
WWI - The failure of the Turkish Krupp cannon against the French Creussot cannon - French propaganda postcard, so this need be taken with a moderate dosage of salt... Date: 1914

En route to Constantinople -WWI
Propaganda postcard from early WWI era, showing British and French navy vessels aproaching (and assaulting) the walls of Constantinople, Turkey. Date: 1915

British Mortar Battery in action at Landikhana, NWFP Date: circa 1920s

Russian Easter Greeting card, featuring an Easter chick being fired out of a cannon (shell and all) by Mr Bunny toward Mrs Bunny... Date: circa 1903

Myanmar - A Shan Archer
Myanmar (Burma) - A Shan Archer. The Shan are a Tai ethnic group of Southeast Asia. Date: circa 1910s

Belgian Infantry in action at Malines - WWI
Belgian Infantry in action at Malines (Mechelen / Mechlin) on 25th August 1914 during the first week of the conflict during WWI. Date: 1914

Protecting Russian territory in Manchuria
A young Russian soldier guarding the security of Manchuria. Date: 1904

One-pounder quick-firing gun on top of the envelope

At Cuxhaven BAOR scientists prepare a V-2 for launch
At Cuxhaven, BAOR scientists prepare a V-2 for launch. With the rocket in the vertical firing position, servicing personnel loosen the retaining straps of the cradle. 15 October 1945. Date: 1945

One of the special Airspeed AS65 Consuls produced in 1949 for the Burmese Air Force fitted with two fixed forward-firing guns under the fuselage and provision for eight 25lb rocket projectiles

An Atlas ICBM is raised into the firing position by an erector-launcher mechanism at the Convair plant at San Diego, California. June 1959. Date: 1959

Rocket firing North American F-86D Sabre

Rocket firing North American F-86A Sabre

Brick making kilns - Rangoon -.. before firing. Date: 1952

Huge Artillery Shell
Two English soldiers on the Western Front swing a huge shell into the firing position. Date: 1918

Firing a Torpedo
Charging a torpedo-tube aboard a U-boat, of the type which sank three British cruisers in the North Sea during the first weeks of World War One - a warning of things to come... Date: September 1914

Satirical cartoon, Rural Sports, Balloon Hunting

Kearsarce and Alabama

Belgian Canal Boat Fund for the relief of the civil populati

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