Guard Collection (page 4)

WW2 - Home Guard Goings On
An illustrated front cover for a WW2 children's story book, Home Guard Goings On, written by Basil Boothroyd. The image portrays an older gentleman wielding a gun

WW2 - Mr Penny At War
An illustrated front cover for a WW2 children's story book, Mr. Penny At War, written by Maurice Moiseiwitsch. The image portrays an older Home Guard serviceman carrying his bayonet rifle

Lilliburlero (Calling Us All)
An illustrated WW2 music sheet cover for Lilliburlero, (calling us all) arranged by Kenneth J. Alford, words by Arthur Stanley

The Parade Of The Home Guard
An illustrated WW2 music sheet cover for The Parade of The Home Guard, by Montague Ewing, of the Home Guard. Date: circa 1940s

Vatican City, Rome, Italy - Swiss Guard in Ceremonial Costume Date: circa 1920s

WW2 Greetings Card, Thumbs Up!
A WW2 Home Guard themed greetings card, the illustration portrays a British serviceman giving a double thumbs up. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 Home Guard Greetings Card
A WW2 greetings guard using the theme of Britain's Home Guard. The illustration shows wartime professions, including businessmen, mechanic, butcher and a land girl. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 Home Guard Christmas Card
A WW2 Christmas card from the staff officers of F.5 sector, Warwickshire (Birmingham) Home Guard, to Colonel N. F. Rose, M.B.E

WW2 Birthday Card, Standing By The Flag
A WW2 birthday greetings card, the illustration shows a Scottish terrier dog wearing a tin hat and armed with a rifle, standing guard beside a Union Jack flag, with the radio active. Date: circa 1941

WW2 Christmas Card, Home Guard
A WW2 Christmas greetings card with an illustration portraying a Home Guard serviceman speaking with a policeman, he is holding up a dead rabbit. Date: circa 1940s

Coldstream Guard sentry at Windsor Castle, Berkshire - Painted by artist Charles Howard for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Scottish National War Memorial, Edinburgh Castle, Scotland
Scottish National War Memorial, Edinburgh Castle, Lothian, Scotland - Painted by William Carruthers Affleck for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Changing the Guard, Edinburgh Castle, Lothian, Scotland - Painted by William Carruthers Affleck for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Rood screen, Collegiale de l'Assomption, Villemaur-sur-Vanne
Resurrection of Christ, detail from the rood screen of 1521, with 26 bas reliefs in Gothic and Renaissance style, in the Collegiale de l'Assomption, or Collegiale de Notre-Dame

Queen Isabella II and husband visit Maundy Thursday Monument
Isabella II (1830-1904). Spanish Queen. Queen Isabella II and her husband visiting the Maundy Thursday Monument at the Church of Santa Maria, 1855 (Madrid, Spain)

Perspective of the Main Square (Plaza Mayor), Madrid, circa 1620. Detail. History Museum. Madrid. Spain

WW2 Home Guard At Attention
An illustration which shows a WW2 captain standing by four soldiers of the British Home Guard, standing at attention. Date: circa 1941

WW2, Your Picture
An illustration of a smiling little girl wearing daisies in her hair, depicted as a daughter of a WW2 serviceman on guard at nights. Date: circa 1940s

Chippity Cuckoo
A front cover illustration to Chippity Cuckoo, by E. M. Bell. The image portrays a fairy sewing together a British WW2 Home Guard uniform onto the cuckoo. Date: circa 1944

Businessmen And Royal Guard
An illustration reproduced from a poster design, showing three smartly dressed businessmen wearing black hats and long coats, walking away from a Royal Guard with a bearskin hat. Date: circa 1939

Standard and Uniforms of the 3rd Dragoon Guards
The Standard and Uniforms of the 3rd Dragoon Guards Date: 1915

Royal Escort of Life Guards at St James's Palace, London Date: 1915

Inspecting the Guard, Gordon Highlanders Date: 1915

Grenadier Guards, Sergeant and Drummer in State dress Date: 1915

Marquis Philippe de Massa in uniform
Marquis Philippe de Massa (1831-1910) in sub-lieutenant's uniform, French cavalry officer and author of theatrical entertainments. Date: 1856

Battle of Somosierra - Pensinsular War
Peninsular War. Battle of Somosierra (Spain). Polish troops fought in the Battle of Somosierra (November 30, 1808), during the Spanish War of Independence

Turkey. Camp of the Daud Pasha
Ottoman Empire. Turkey. Camp of the Daud Pasha. Engraving by Lemaitre. Lalaisse and Branche. Historia de Turquia by Joseph Marie Jouannin (1783-1844) and Jules Van Gaver, 1840

Ottoman Sultan going to the mosque. Turkey. Engraving by Lemaitre, Lalaisse and Chaillot. Historia de Turquia by Joseph Marie Jouannin (1783-1844) and Jules Van Gaver, 1840

Lieu Sacre
This oil painting depicts a holy place, with a guard standing in the gateway of a city, heavenly figures are standing in a group upon a cloud above. Date: circa 1920

Drummer Dyes Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for W. Edge & Sons Ltd. promoting Drummer Dyes, used for all fabrics, a bearskin guard drummer can be seen sat below a circular framed room interior

Funeral of King George V, Royal Train leaves Paddington
A Railway Guard signals for the Royal Train to leave Paddington, Funeral of King George V Date: 1936

The Emperor of India with Lord Hardinge descending from the platform on arrival at Delhi to inspect the guard of honour, December 7, 1911

Formation of the Irish Guards
Irish Guard formation (1st April 1900) due to the bravery and courage shown by the Irish regiment in South Africa during the Boer war (11 Oct 1899 ?? 31 May 1902)

New Guard House Tower of London
The illustration was drawn due to a great outcry which was raised about the new guard building just erected beside the south-west corner of the beautiful White Tower on the ground of its vandalism

Types of Soldier, Russian Army
8 examples of the types of soldier from different sections and ranks of the Russian Army, and the varying uniforms and equipment they hold

The Main Guard of the Palace, Valetta, Malta
Various depictions of the main guard at the Palace, Valetta, Malta. The Palace, also known as the Grandmaster's Palace or Governor's Palace, was built between the 16th and 18th centuries

Royal Tournament Rehearsal
Life Guards rehearsing a display of bare-back horse-jumping for the Royal Tournament, to be held at Olympia the following week. Date: 1932

Turkey. Escort of a provincial governor Pasha. Engraving
Ottoman Empire. Turkey. Escort of a provincial governor Pasha (higher rank in the Ottoman political and military system). Engraving by Lemaitre, Lalaisse and Montaut

Diego Garcia de Paredes (1466-1534). Spanish soldier and duellist. Engraving. Museo Militar, 1883. Later colouration. Date: 2019

The Archers of Burgundy. Engraving by Serra
The Archers of Burgundy, Burgundy Guard or Blade Guard, were an armed unit from the Burgundy Guard of Archers, introduced in Spain by King Philip I of Castile

Soldiers of Acostamientos. Culveriner and crossbowman
Soldiers of Acostamientos. The Acostamiento was a salary granted by the king to his vassals under which they were obliged to serve him in war. Culveriner (left). Crossbowman (right). Engraving

Bombo manchego. Traditional rural architecture of La Mancha
Spain, Castile-La Mancha, Ciudad Real province. Surroundings of Tomelloso. Bombo manchego. A kind of vaulted hut made with stone labs without mortar, coming from the plowing of the vinyeards

Training school for the Home Guard
Under-Secretary of State for War Sir Edward Grigg (1879-1955), at the opening of a new training school for the Home Guard. Date: 1940

King George VI inspecting the Yeomen of the Guard
King George VI (1895-1952) inspecting the Yeomen of the Guard at Buckingham Palace. The Yeomen are under the Captaincy of Arthur Chichester, Colonel The Lord Templemore (1880-1953). Date: 1939

Lord Howard de Walden, illustration by W Howard Robinson, in fencing outfit with epee and face guard. Captioned I was ever a fighter'

North American F-100D Super Sabre 56-3055 (msn 235-153), marked as 572 in front of the Arizona Air National Guard HQ. Date: circa 1990

Dassault-Breguet HU-25A Guardian 2119
United States Coast Guard - Dassault-Breguet HU-25A Guardian 2119 (msn 424), at the Battle of Britain 50th Anniversary Airshow held at Boscombe Down on 10 June 1990. Date: 1990

Lockheed C-130H Hercules 1720
United States Coast Guard - Lockheed C-130H Hercules 1720 (msn 382-5120, ex USAF 87-0156) Date: circa 1985

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