Firing Collection (page 15)

Gallipoli beach WWI
460th Battery Royal Field Artillery at V Beach at Gallipoli during World War I

French battleship WWI
French battleship in action in the Dardanelles during World War I

Maltas Defences firing - WWII
World War Two - Maltas Fixed night defences firing - July 1943

Tarnopol, August 1917
A German artillery unit firing on retreating Russian forces at Tarnopol in Galicia on the Eastern Front (now Ternopil in modern day Ukraine)

French troops practising using a mortar in Algeria
French troops practising firing a mortar in Algeria

D-Day - Naval Artillery support
A converted landing craft fires rockets to support the landing allied troops. D-Day began on June 6th, 1944 at 6:30am and was conducted in two assault phases - the air assault landing of allied

Korean Archers - Keijo (Seoul)
The Bowing Game of Chosen - Korean Archers of Keijo (Seoul), in Chosen Province practising traditional archery

Archery Practise - India
Men from the Madhya Pradesh Province, India practise their archery. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

French Front 1916
12 inch gun on railway mounting in action at Maricort, Somme on the French Front in France during World War I in 1916

Battle of the Scarpe 1918
Capture of Greenland Hill by 51st Division. The 6th Seaforths working forward towards Hausa and Delbar Woods, north-east of Roeux during the Battle of the Scarpe (Second Battle of Arras)

German Tank 1918
A German Tank and aeroplane in action on the Western Front in France during World War I in 1918

First Battle of Bapaume 1918
A 60 pounder Mark II Battery in action in the open air near La Boisselle during the First Battle of Bapaume on the Western Front in France during World War I in March 1918

First Battle of Arras 1918
Field gun batteries in action in the open during the First Battle of Arras in the Albert area on the Western Front in France during World War I in March 1918

Boues 1918
6 inch Howitzers in action in the open near Boues on the Western Front in France during World War I in April 1918

Howitzer battery 1917
An 8 inch Mark V Howitzer battery (135th Siege Battery of the Royal Garrison Artillery) in action near Henin-sur-Cojeul during the Battle of Vimy Ridge on the Western Front in France during World War

Battle of Albert, Somme 1917
British tanks going into action between Amiens and Bouchoir at the Battle of Albert (First Battle of the Somme) on the Western Front in France during World War I in 1918

Pilkem 1917
6 inch Howitzer gun ready for firing at Pilkem on the Western Front in France during World War I in August 1917

Howitzer 1918
A Canadian 8 inch Howitzer in a camouflaged gun position in action in Thelus on the Western Front in France during World War I in January 1918

Howitzer 1918
A 12 inch Howitzer gun firing at Louez on the Western Front in France during World War I in May 1918

British artillery 1918
A 6 inch 26 cwt Howitzer at recoil after firing near Achivourt on the Western Front in France during World War I in May 1918

Battle of the Canal du Nord 1918
A British 60 pounder gun firing in the barrage at dawn (zero was at 5.20am). Field batteries are moving forward on the right

Capture of Grevillers 1918
Soldiers of the New Zealand Division firing a captured 4.2 gun battery capture Grevillers on the Western Front in France during World War I in August 1918

Battle of Arras 1917
Battery of 60 pounders firing in the open at Feuchy Chapel, which is 3.75 miles from Arras and was the limit of the first days advance on the Western Front in France during World War I in April 1917

Howitzer 1917
12 inch Howitzer gun and ammunition under camouflage netting at the Battle of Arras on the Western Front in France during World War I in April 1917

Howitzers in action 1917
British Howitzer guns in action at the Battle of Arras offensive on the Western Front in France during World War I in April 1917

First Vickers Maxim gun, 1915
The first Vickers-Maxim machine gun, being fired from the breastwork at Rue de Bois by a soldier of the 2nd Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders from 19th Brigade on the Western Front in France during

British troops in France 1915
Soldiers getting ready to fire a 60 pounder gun in the Bois Grenier sector on the Western Front in France during World War I on 12th January 1915

German offensive on the Lys
British troops on a German offensive on the Lys. A 6 inch Mark VII gun firing near Caestre on the Western Front in Belgium during World War I in April 1918

Patent Office Curiosities and Ingenuities
Some Curiosities and Ingenuities of the Patent Office! These include a popelling device, a helmet-mounted gun, a submersible lifesaving apparatus, a cool pipe

British infantry firing amid the historic pagodas - Burma
Burma - British infantry (17th Division) firing amid the historic pagodas - circa February, 194."

Mendi Expedition. The native method of firing a cannon
The native method of firing a cannon (lighting it and sprinting away) during the Mendi expedition in Sierra Leone, West Africa in 1898

HMS Ramillies bombarding Turkish positions
Birds eye view (taken from a seaplane) of the British warship HMS Ramillies bombarding Turkish positions in the Gulf of Ismid in early July 1920

French machine-gunners 1916
French machine-gunners, Aisne, on the French front during World War I in 1916

Dug in - D-Day - Machine Gun Team
A British machine gun team dug in on a Normandy beach during the assault phase of Operation Overlord - the allied D-Day landings in France on 6th June 1944

Gunshots in a Tavern
Customers in a tavern in Fourmies, France, duck for cover as gun shots are fired inside the building

Musket instruction, World War I
Muskeet instruction at the Wandsworth Home Defence Battalion during World War I on 30th November 1914

British Front in France, 1918
Battery of 75mm guns in action at Longpont (Aisne) on the Western Front in France during World War I on 18th July 1918

Tito opens an RAF Duxford Air Display
Marshal Tito firing the Verey starting pistol to begin the RAF Air display at Duxford. On the left, in the bowler hat, is Lord De L Isle and Dudley, V.C, and on the extreme right is Duncan Sandys

Home Guard training against bombers
Training for the Home Guard at Osterley Park, in the suburbs of west London. Riflemen being trained to meet dive-bombing attacks by practising rapid fire against a diving model that represents a 50

A British heavy gun at the moment of firing

Indian machine gunners mobilize
Indian troops taking their maxim machine guns to the firing line in world war one

The Battle of Gubat, Sudan, 1885
Engraving showing British infantry, firing in ranks, at the Battle of Gubat, Sudan, 19th January 1885

Anti-Aircraft Rockets, Britain; Second World War, 1944
Photograph showing the firing of anti-aircraft rockets at night, by British Home Guard units, during 1944

British infantry in a firing line
British infantry are shown in a firing line during an exercise. The colour photograph was published by the Illustrated London News to show their readers how the British khaki uniforms appeared

Riots in Brussels - 4
Firing a cannon in the streets of Brussels as the Belgians seek independence from Holland

British trenches at the front
A quiet morning in the British trenches showing officers during a lull in firing. Trench warfare defined World War I

A British firing-line trench
British soldiers in a firing-line trench with rifles leaning against sandbags and duckboard pathways

The Church in the firing-line
A French soldier-priest ministering to his comrades under fire. In 1915, it was estimated that over 20, 000 priests served in the French army in some capacity

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