Guard Collection (page 16)

WW2 - ARP man with horse and flashlight wishing the recipient of this card a Happy Birthday. Note the helmet on the horse and the black and white legwear on both horse and watchman

Civil Defence Handbook, preparing the house
Civil Defence Handbook provides instructions on preparing the house in the event of an attack

Women looking The Night Watch, painting by Rembrandt (1606-1
Holland. Amsterdam. Rijksmuseum. Women looking The Night Watch, painting by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669)

France. Royal Guard. 18th century. Colored engraving
France. Royal Guard. 18th century. Among them, left to right: cuirassier, carabineer, dragoon and gate guard. Colored engraving

Persepolis (Takht-e-Jamshid). Apadana Palace. Ruins. First
Persian art. Achaemenid period. Apadana Palace. Ruins. First palace built under Darius I in the new capital, Persepolis. It stands on a plinth decorated with reliefs depicting the royal guard

Coldstream guards, oldest regiment in the Regular Army in continuous active service. Date: 1894

Presentation of New Colours to Irish Guards
The Presentation of New Colours to the First Battalion of the Irish Guards, in the Grounds of Buckingham Palace: The Consecration by the Chaplain-General of the Forces and a Roman Catholic Chaplain

Slovak Jews Transported
Jews from the interior of Slovakia, mostly minor industrialists, are transported to the Hungarian frontier after being discovered by the Hinkla Guard Date: circa 1939

Yeomen of the Guard 1888
Yeomen Warders of the Tower of London. Date: 1888

Actors performing, Minack Theatre, Penzance, Cornwall
Actors performing to an audience at the open air Minack Theatre, Porthcurno, Penzance, Cornwall. The production was The Yeomen of the Guard by Gilbert and Sullivan. Date: circa 1970s

Two soldiers with gas canisters, eastern front, Russia, WW1
Two Moujik (peasant) soldiers with a pile of gas canisters on the eastern front near Dvinsk, Russia, during the First World War. Date: circa 1917

Timken tapered roller bearing axleboxes - train
A recent innovation by British Timken Ltd - a tapered-roller-bearing wagon bearing unit for freight stock made suitable for high speed and replacing the old plain-bearing axlebox

New Viceroy of India greeted at the Gateway of India, Mumbai - The Governors Bodyguard, the 2nd Lancers and the Guard of Honour. Date: 1926

Officers sword, 51st Foot, 1809 (c); blade is curved, flat backed, unfullered with a spear point, and is double edged for the last 10 in; steel stirrup guard; steel hilt mounts

Barrel House, Tonopah, Nevada, USA
The Barrel House, built out of barrels and wooden crates, a miners dwelling in Tonopah, Nevada, USA, with a guard dog outside. Date: circa 1910

Bottle House, Tonopah, Nevada, USA
Bottle House, built out of 10, 000 beer bottles, in Tonopah, Nevada, USA, with two guard dogs outside. Date: circa 1910

Fortress at Arusha, Tanzania, East Africa
Fortress at Arusha, German East Africa (now Tanzania). Date: circa 1910

Little boy and pet dog in back of car, with dog visitor
A little boy and his pet dog in the back of car receive a visit from another dog. Date: circa 1960s

WW1 - Canadian Volunteers
WW1 - The Canadian Volunteers, also known as The Moose Jaw Legion of Frontiersmen, photographed in front of a band stand at their first appearance

Swiss swords, early 16th century.. Chromolithograph from Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Altenecks Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century, Frankfurt, 1889

WW2 Valentines Day card, Home Guard
WW2 Valentines Day card, Let me be your Home Guard for life, design by Bert Thomas. Date: circa 1942

WWII knitting booklet, Home Front Woollies
Front cover of a knitting booklet produced by Weldons featuring a variety of patterns to make garments for war workers from a resolute looking member of the Home Guard to female members of the armed

WWII knitting, New Woollies for soldiers, sailors & airmen
Front cover of a knitting booklet from the Second World War published by yarn manufacturer Weldon, featuring woollen garments which could made for men in the armed services

Munition workers guard of honour at Percy wedding, WW1
Munition workers forming a guard of honour at the wedding of Miss Stella Drummond to Lord Eustace Percy (third son of the late Duke of Northumberland) at St. Margaret s, Westminster

Advert for J. C. Vickery luminous & grill-guard watches 1918
Active service wrist watches. Sterling silver high-grade lever wrist watch, with luminous hands and figures. Sterling silver very reliable luminous wrist watch with very detachable grill guard. 1918

Procession in Central London
Aerial view of the Silver Jubilee procession in Central London, with flags and garlands. Date: 1935

French cartoon, German prisoners, WW1
First World War cartoon entitled German prisoners, showing French soldiers escorting German prisoners away from Colmar, a town on the border between France and Germany. Date: 1915

German Gewehr 88 rifle with face guard
German Gewehr 88 bolt-action rifle, in service from 1888 until the early part of the First World War. The face guard may be a later addition. (2 of 4) Date: 1888-1915

French helmet with visor, WW1
A French helmet with visor, used during the First World War. Seen here on display, probably in a museum. Date: 1914-1918

Beefeater in a Heatwave
A beefeater Yeomen Warder of the Tower of London, taking off his hat during a heatwave! Date: early 1930s

The Entrance to the Kaaba, Mecca, Saudi Arabia. The holiest site in the Islamic World and a place of pilgrimage attracting many millions of Muslims each year from all over the world

IRAN. Persepolis. Apadana or Audience Hall of Darius I.. Persian Guard (with cylindrical hat) and nobleman of the Medan court (round hat)

Inside the annexe at Westminster Abbey - George VI Coronatio
A view inside the Great Hall, a temporary annexe designed by Sir James West and built onto Westminster Abbey for the Coronation of King George VI in 1937

Royal wedding 1893 - the departure
The departure of the Duke of York and his bride from Buckingham Palace.Earlier, George Duke of York(later King George V)(1865-1936) had married Princess May of Teck(later the Duchess of York)

Pride comes before a fall
An illustration to the saying, Pride comes before a fall. Showing a rich man (possibly royal) in an encounter with a boy selling food from a basket in the street

Argostoli Prison, Kefalonia, Ionian Islands, Greece
Argostoli Prison on the island of Kefalonia, Ionian Islands, Greece. Date: circa 1910s

Officer of the 1st Prussian Guards in parade uniform
The Corps D elite of the German army whose suprement effort the British repulsed on 11th November 1914: officer of the 1st Prussian Guards in parade uniform Date: 1914

Edward VIIs death, Westminster Hall
King Edward VIIs lying in state at Westminster Hall, London May 16th - 19th 1910

Phnom Penh, Cambodia
A boy stood in front of a remarkable statue in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, of a seven-headed cobra snake, guarding a bridge within the Palace complex

Pioneer Sergeant - The Scots Guards
Pioneer Sergeant of The Scots Guards. In 1831 bearskins were issued but the regiment was forced to adopt the title Scots Fusilier Guards as a reason to wear them

A Bedouin Guard with his trusty steed
A wonderful photographic card showing a Palestinian Bedouin Guard, a rifle across his back and his horse, with decorated tack

Japanese Vice-Admiral Togo and Signal men. Heihachiro, Marquis Togo (1838 - 1934) - Japanese naval commander whose defeat of the Russian fleet at Tsushima (in May 1905 - interestingly)

Jack Point in Yeoman
C Herbert Workman in the role of Jack Point, the jester, in Yeoman of the Guard

The Golden Fleece
Thanks to Medeas magical powers, she is able to help Jason seize the Golden Fleece despite the creatures which guard it

Guard / Buckingham Palace
The entrance gateway to Buckingham Palace, London, showing one of the guardsmen on duty by the gates. These sentries are now stationed inside the courtyard

Review, Paris C1770
A Review of the Gardes de la Ville de Paris - the municipal militia - outside the Hotel de Ville

A British sentry in Flanders, WW1. 1914-1918

Victorian Scrap - Navy Landing with Nordenfelt Gun. late 19th century

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