Guns Collection (#31)

French marine WWII
A French marine in charge of a set of guns waits for the order to fire during World War II

French Naval School WWII
In the gun room the pupils learn the complicated workings of naval guns

French coastal defences WWII
The French coast is well defended with guns such as these in position

PE and Band, Training Ship Wellesley, North Shields
Boys taking part in an exercise drill, with the band behind them, on the Training Ship Wellesley, on the River Tyne at North Shields, Northumberland

Two women in furs
Pencil sketch of two women, both wearing furs, set above two small doodles of navy warships. Drawings by Raymond Sheppard

Machine gun WWII
Two soldiers moving a machine gun into position during World War II in Finland

Indian servant cleaning his Masters equipment
Indian servant sitting cross-legged, cleaning his Masters equipment, including his boots and shoes and hunting rifles with brushes and polish

The Republic of Ireland proclaimed: the 21-gun salute
Crowds turn out for the 21-gun salute fired on O Connell Bridge in Dublin, Ireland, to celebrated the new Republic being announced

Munitions Factory WWII
An enormous Naval gun being lowered into a heated tube for tempering at a munitions factory during World War II

Feed the Guns Campaign - War Bonds
A Feed the Guns campaign week to attract the populace in Britain to buy War Bonds to help " End the War". Separate campaigns of special weeks were " led off " by spectacular

Turkish Artillery on the move - possibly during manoeuvres

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

Australian Howitzer 1918
An Australian Howitzer in action in the Somme Offensive on the Western Front in France during World War I in August 1918

Turkish hunting party in Anatolia
Turkish shooting party with rifles and dogs in Anatolia

Battle of Arras 1918
Portuguese gunners receiving instruction at a 9.2 inch Howitzer gun actually in action at the Battle of Arras on the Western Front in France during World War I in July 1918

Captured Turkish Guns - 1915
Captured Turkish guns, manufactured by Krupp (77s) in the Old European Castle with piles of ammunition. War in the Dardanelles - 1915. Sed Dul-Bahr

WWI - Dardanelles - Turkish guns
Dardanelles, Turkey. Old Turkish Guns in Sed Dul-Bahr Fort

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

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

German Field Gun Battery 1918
German Field Gun battery in action in the open during the Offensive of 1918 on the Western Front during World War I

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

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

Lewis gunners 1918
British Lewis gunners of the 12th Royal Scots wearing box respirators in action in a front line trench during a gas attack on the Western Front in France during World War I in June 1918

Moulain 1918
British 18 pounder gun batteries in action at Moulain on the Western Front in France during World War I in October 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

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

60 pounder 1915
A 60 pounder gun of the 6th Division Artillery covering the 2nd Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 19th Brigade, 6th and 27th Divisions in the Bois Grenier Sector on the Western Front in France

Gun inspection 1915
6th Siege Battery, 6 inch BL 30 cwt howitzer gun being examined by Inspector of Munitions, Major Browne, after No. 3 gun had burst on the Western Front in France during World War I on 17th March 1915

World War I 1915
Damage inflicted on the Cameronians at Neuve Chapelle by the German guns on the Western Front in France during World War I on 10th March 1915

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

Battle of Hazebrouck 1918
18 pounder battery in action in the open near Meteren. Soldiers loading the gun at the Battle of Hazebrouck on the Western Front in Belgium during World War I on 13th April 1918

Vickers Machine Gun
Soldiers filling the water jacket on a Vickers Machine Gun on the Western Front in Belgium during World War I in 1917

Battle of Poelcappelle
Man-handling an 18 pounder gun out of the mud. The horse team that pulls it is standing nearby. Near Langemarck on the Western Front in Belgium on 16th October 1917

Soldiers in Pilkem
British soldiers with a captured 5.9 gun knocked out by allied artillery in Pilkem, Western Front, Belgium during World War I in 1917

Howitzer in the mud
6 inch 26 cwt Howitzer gun being manhandled through the mud near Pozieres during World War I in September 1918

A country shooting party in Austria
A picnic during a country shooting party in Austria. The men sit in the foreground amid the baskets of food, guns and dog

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