Guardsman Collection

Coldstream Guards on a Christmas and New Year card, changing sentry duty in the snow. Date: circa 1890s

The Guard Who Dropped It
A humorous illustration showing a terrified guardsman who has dropped his rifle. Bateman (1887-1970) was a popular artist and regularly contributed to the Sketch, the Tatler and the Bystander

Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace - Christmas card
Changing of the (Scots) Guards at Buckingham Palace - Christmas greetings card design by Harry Payne for Raphael Tuck & Sons. Date: circa 1908

Tommy Guardsman in full war-paint 1914
A Guardsman ready to take his place in the firing - line. The field service kit of the British infantryman in detail, with diagram. Date: 1914

Drinking / Ally Sloper
Ally Sloper and his friends get drunk on Easter Monday

Uniform of the Kings Bodyguard, Garde-du-corps de roi, Louis XVIII pf France. Handcoloured lithograph from Le Bibliophile Jacob aka Paul Lacroixs Costumes Historiques de la France

Grenadier Guardsman, steam locomotive
Grenadier Guardsman, no. 6110, one of the Royal Scot type locomotives(operational here on the London Midland and Scottish Railway.) Built in 1927, no

Irish Guards, Windsor
Irish Guards marching on parade at Windsor Castle, Berkshire Date: 1989

Tournament Whist playing cards scorecard, Guardsman
Tournament Whist playing cards scorecard design, Guardsman on horseback

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

LMS Royal Scot Class 6100 - Royal Scot
Steam Locomotive - London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) Royal Scot Class 6100. The first of its class, built in 1927 by the North British Locomotive Company in Glasgow

Commercial Art, Motor Vehicle
An advertisement illustration used in the promotion of motoring, the image shows a guardsman standing beside a car making it's exit. Date: circa 1939

A Civil Guardsman having dinner with his family in their private rooms at a Civil Guard Barracks, Spain, 1936. The Civil Guard were a cross between a military unit and a police force

Queen Victoria Lying-in-State 1901
Queen Victoria's coffin draped with state robes, guarded by Ist Grenadier Guards, at Osborne House for ten days. Date: January 1901

Coronation Souvenir - King George V (1865-1936) and Queen Mary (1867-1953) - June 22, 1911. Date: 1911

Every Inch a Soldier - A youn boy marches past a Guardsman in proud imitation - Buckingham Palace, London Date: circa 1920s

Comic postcard, Guardsman and maid, WW2 - How long is your furlough? Date: circa 1940s

Woman outside the Theatre du Gymnase, Paris, 1827. Fashionable woman in large bonnet, lace collar and bib, puff-sleeve dress holding a shawl

Norah Blaney at Bright Young Things party
Miss Ila Fink, Mr B. Leonards and actress Miss Norah Blaney at a Bright Young Things party given by Captian MacEachan at Brook Street

French fashions and English uniforms, 1815. Two French courtesans in white frilled dresses are approached by English soldiers, dragoons and hussars

A Yeoman of the Guard attending Queen Elizabeth I on a Progress. Copperplate engraving by N.C. Goodnight from Francis Groses Military Antiquities respecting a History of the English Army, Stockdale

Russian military corps: Jannisary, cadet and infantry
Russian military: Polish Jannisary in turban 6, cadet corps under Catherine 7, guardsman under Alexander 8, grenadier 9, and officer 10

Military uniform of the French Guards, Garde-Francaise, 1789. Handcoloured lithograph from Le Bibliophile Jacob aka Paul Lacroixs Costumes Historiques de la France (Historical Costumes of France)

Dog soldier and two cats on a greetings card with a tab pull. Date: circa 1890s

GUARDSMAN ON DUTY 1875
Guardsman on duty Date: circa 1875

Tourists and guardsman, Windsor
Four mature lady Japanese tourists pose for a photograph beside an Irish Guard on sentry duty outside Windsor Castle, England. First published The Sunday Times Date: 1989

Tourist and guardsman, Windsor
A male Japanese tourist poses for a photograph beside a Welsh Guardsman in his sentry box outside Windsor Castle. First published The Daily Telegraph Date: 1989

Guardsman at Windsor Castle, Berkshire. Date: circa 1980s

Guard outside the entrance to Windsor Castle, Berkshire. Date: circa 1980s

Humorous British Christmas card - a rather stern-faced guardsman is about to get a shock as a bunch of n er-do-well street urchins are following him with a lot of bangers and rockets...!

Late Victorian 1890s Greetings Card Man Men Red
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Four guardsmen on a cutout Christmas and New Year card. (1 of 3) Date: circa 1890s

The Lifeguardsman who Dropped It by H. M. Bateman
One of H. M. Batemans most brilliant cartoons - a guard of honour at a wedding goes horribly wrong. 1935

Good bye! The 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards Leaving Waterloo Station, October 21st 1899. Chromolithograph after George Harcourt; published by ?Girl?s Own Paper?, October 1900. Date: 1899

WW1 - United We Stand, Divided we fall. Patriotic postcard from the start of the First World War, showing a united stance by a sailor, a Scottish Highlander and a Life Guard Date: circa 1914

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

Sergeant Major - Grenadier Guards
A Sergeant Major of The Grenadier Guards. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Guardsman with tourist, Whitehall, London
Guardsman with tourist spectator, Whitehall, London, England. circa 1966

R. H. M. Vereker
Portrait of R. H. M. Vereker, of the Grenadier Guards. 1914

Two soldiers on a stirrup-shaped New Year card
Two soldiers, one of them on sentry duty, on a stirrup-shaped New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Greetings card in the shape of a sentry box with guard
Greetings card in the shape of a sentry box with a guard standing in front. Date: circa 1890s

Grenadier guardsman drumming on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s

Three boys in military uniform on a greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Guardsman in a sentry box on a greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Guardsman on horseback on a Christmas card. circa 1890s

Sergeant Michael O Leary, VC at Cuinchy
Sergeant Michael John O Leary (29 September 1890 2 August 1961), capturing the barricade at Cuinchy on February 1st. Date: 1915

Private J. Mackenzie, 2nd Scots Guards VC
John Mackenzie (22 November 1871 17 May 1915), who was awarded a VC for the Batlle of Loos Date: 1915

Lance-Corporal F. W. Dobson, Coldstream Guards VC
Frederick William Dobson, (9 November 1886 15 November 1935), who was awarded a VC for the First Battle of the Aisne Date: 1915

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