Firing Collection (page 16)

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

Infantry entrenched
German infantry firing from a trench during training exercises. The trenches would become the characteristic feature of World War I stalemate warfare

Hit
A photograph taken by a French dragoon showing a fellow soldier struck by a German bullet while on reconnaissance duty in the Forest of Champenoux

Revolving gun-turret
A revolving German gun-turret, revealed after constant bombardment of its trench by the French in September 1915. The turret had a quick-firing gun served by three men, who were locked inside

British First Airborne troops using a 75mm gun, Arnhem; Seco
Photograph showing a soldier of the British First Airborne Division firing a 75mm gun at an enemy position near Arnhem, September 1944

A French soldiers douche
An improvised shower for French soldiers in the style of Heath Robinson, powered by a water-wheel in a small stream near the firing-line

A German trap
An illustration by John de Bryan showing German soldiers firing upon a British motor after it has come upon broken wine bottle glass laid in the road by the Germans during World War I

The Cyclist Company of the 1st Oxford University Volunteers
Photograph of the Cyclist Company of the 1st Oxford University Volunteers, practising their drill for resisting an attack by cavalry, 1889

The Life Brigade firing a Rocket to a Ship on the Rocks
Engraving showing the firing of a rocket, by the volunteer life brigade, to a steam-ship being wrecked on rocks. If the rocket-line reached the ship

A French motor-gun
Soldiers firing a French auto-cannon in August 1915. A light, quick-firer, occasionally used to fire on hostile aircraft, the gun was mounted onto motor-cars for rapid transit from point to point

Captain Jerninghams Anchor-Firing Mortar, 1846
Engraving of an experiment to test Captain Jerninghams idea to assist the launching of lifeboats. The launching of lifeboats from a beach into heavy breaking surf was often dangerous

Street fighting in the Rue de Rivoli; Paris Commune, 1871
Illustration showing street fighting, in the Rue de Rivoli, between French Government troops and Paris Communards, 1871. Barricades can be seen at each end of the street

Metal Monster Machine
THE METAL MONSTER by E K Jarvis. A massive metallic machine strides through the sea on four legs grabbing battleships in its clutches and firing a ray-gun

American Civil war. Confederates trapping a boats crew of t
The Potomac River, Virginia, was one of the key battle grounds during the Civil War. This scene shows a Confederate soldier shooting towards the shore from where the Unionists were firing at

Confederate sharpshooters firing at a supply train, American
This lively and vivid sketch shows Confederate snipers attacking a Unionist wagon train, near the Tennessee River, 1863. The wagon train was trying to supply local Union troops

Republican Troops in a fortified position, near San Sebastia
Photograph showing a unit of Republican troops firing from behind a parapet of sandbags, near San Sebastian in the province of Guipuzcoa, 1936

RAF F E 8
The Royal Air Force FE8 is a single-seat fighter, with a pusher engine so that a forward firing gun can be used without synchronisation

Curiosities and ingenuities from the Patent Office; Helmet w
An illustration of a curious design sent to the Patent Office in 1920, showing a man wearing a hat with a gun mounted on it

German Ships Gunners
Firing a gun from the mast turret of a German cruiser

Husband, Son Shot
Clutching her baby, a Belgian wife is forced to watch as her husband and her son are shot by a German firing squad

Nikolaus Von Wenge
An episode of the religious wars : Nikolaus von Wenge prevents the Catholics of Solothurn from firing their cannon on protestants

Casting / Firing a Horse
The Newly approved method of casting and fireing. A horse is firmy restrained with ropes before branding with a hot poker

Firing a Gun - Scrap
Two officers observe the effects of their heavy gun

Firing French Mortar
French artillerymen firing a mortar

French Field Guns - 3
Firing a French 24 cannon

French Morocco Cannon
The French bring civilisation to Morocco - by teaching the natives to use quick-firing guns

Goeben Photo
Admiral Souchons Goeben is one of the most powerful warships of its day, manned by over 1000 men and capable of firing at targets up to 233 km away : top speed 28 knots

Bombards 1555
Bombards firing on a city

Fall of meteorites at Hatford, Berkshire, UK
When meteorites fall at Hatford, Berkshire, Mistress Greene, a witness, has one dug up, though one of the diggers swoons in terror

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