Guns Collection (page 7)

The government declares that the nation is in danger and this is reinforced by public manifestations in all the public places of Paris on the 22 July, with guns firing Date: 11 July 1792

Watts Naval Training School, Dereham - Barnardos Home
circa 1910s

Ideal gun by Mimard & Blachon Ideal gun by Mimard & Blachon
Ideal gun by Mimard & Blachon. Date: 19th century

HUNTING DRESS 1929
Tailored d-b jacket with patch pockets, box-pleated skirt, ankle socks & lace up boots; jacket with back pleats, argyll stockings & high boots; motoring coat with fur collar. Date: 1929

FASHIONS FOR SHOOTING
A well dressed shooting party, in tweeds, plus-fours and trilbies, stop for a spot of luncheon in a pleasant rural setting. Date: 1938

STRASBOURG GUNS 1870
Prussian guns bombard Strasbourg across the water during Franco-Prussian War Date: 23-24 August 1870

FRENCH ARTILLERY TRAIN
Artillery train in the process of moving the guns Date: circa 1807

COMMUNE / WOMAN DIRECTING
A woman takes charge of the guns during the defence of the Commune in the Place Taranne Date: 1871

RIDING ELEPHANTS
Europeans and Indians riding on elephants hunt a tiger using guns and spears

HUNTING TIGER / WILLIAMSON
Europeans and Indians riding on elephants hunt a tiger using guns and spears

MAN TRAPS / 1837
Chased by a bull into grounds set with man-traps and spring guns. Perils of the countryside. Date: 1837

MISHAP WITH A GUN
A gentleman drops his gun as he climbs a gate, spattering both himself and his companion with shot Date: 1836

NAPOLEON AT MONTEREAU
He himself aims the guns at the Prussians, during the battle of Montereau Date: 18 February 1814

French National Guard soldier cleaning his rifle
Member of the National Guard cleaning his rifle Date: 1850

HMS Royal William
HMS Prince, 100-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Phineas Pett the Younger at Deptford Dockyard and launched in 1670

The Maquis (French Resistance) share in the liberation of France. Date: 1944

WW2-era patriotic British postcard - Predictor, Height finder and 3. 7 Ack Ack (A. A
WW2-era patriotic British postcard - Predictor, Height finder and 3.7 Ack Ack (A.A.) Gun. Date: circa 1945

Field guns preparing for capture of German fort, China, WW1
Second Division Japanese field guns preparing for the capture of a German fort in cooperation with the British Army at the German port of Tsingtau (Tsingtao, Qingdao), China, during a brief siege

Naval guns at Schwartzkop, South Africa
Sighting one of the 4.7 naval guns on the Boer position at Schwartzkop, South Africa, during the Second Boer War. Date: 1900

Mrs Rosling at Bisley
Mrs Rosling, who scored 40 out of 42 with the revolver at Bisley in 1901. Quite the shot. Date: 1901

The Rotunda, Woolwich Common, southeast London. A former artillery museum which was established in 1820. The building was originally a very large bell tent erected in St

US - Life in our Navy - Shore Drill Date: circa 1910

Gun salute Russia - Collectors card Biscuits Lefevre-Utile
Gun salute for Russia - Collectors card for Biscuits Lefevre-Utile of Nantes Date: circa late 1880s

WW1 - Captured German Guns - Horse Guards Parade, London. British trophies from the Battlefield. 21 of the 24 guns were taken during the great advance at Loos in September 1915

A Four-man British Shooting Party - note the specialist jackets worn by the two gentleman at the front, both with padded shoulder protection to prevent injury from the rifle recoil. Date: 1930s

Paris, France - pile of artillery pieces in a mound
A mound of artillery pieces in a very symbolic gesture of abandonment of the war effort at the final closure of World War One in 1918

The Armoury Square, Fort Agra, Agra, India
The Armoury Square at the fort at Agra, India, now a UNESCO world heritage site. The great Mughals Babur, Humayun, Akbar, Jehangir, Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb lived here

Palermo, Sicily, Italy - Monte Pellegrino and the port
The Battlefield at Colenso - site of the heavy defeat of British forces by the Boers during the Second Boer War on 15th December 1899

A Group of Albanians. Date: 1821

8th Battery RFA Camp, Bangalore, India
8th Battery, 13th Brigade, RFA Camp, with field guns and ammunition carts, Bangalore, India. Date: 1912

King Williams Town, Eastern Cape, Cape Colony, South Africa
Victoria Square, King Williams Town, Eastern Cape, Cape Colony, South Africa. Date: circa 1925

Old gun, Abu Khazama, in Baghdad, Iraq
Old gun, known as Abu Khazama, outside the citadel in Baghdad, Iraq. Date: circa 1917

WW1 Poster, Thank them with War Bonds
Poster, Thank them with War Bonds. 1918

Simplex gun by Mimard & Blachon. 19th century

Robust gun by Mimard & Blachon. 19th century

Guns Island, Ballyhornan - a view of cottage buildings, one thatched, in the foreground looking out over water to the island (copy negative). (Location: Northern Ireland; County Down; Ballyhornan)

Automatic pistol, magazine & revolver
Diagram of the automatic pistol with its magazine, and revolver with its clip-loader. Both revolers and automatic pistols were supplied to the various branches of the Army and to the Navy. Date: 1915

German Shepherd police dog with gun. Date: circa 1960s

Anne Bonny, female pirate
Anne Bonny, also known as Bonney (c.1700-1782), famous female buccaneer, pictured in a ships cabin pointing her pistol at two unsuspecting sailors in their bunks below deck. Date: c.1725

Medieval army. Soldiers during a siege city. Guns and crossb
Medieval army. Artillery. Soldiers during a siege city. Guns and crossbows. Miniature. 15th century. Chateau of Chantilly. France

WW1 recruitment poster, Spirit of 1917, US Marines
WW1 recruitment poster, Spirit of 1917, Join the US Marines at Smithfield and Water Streets, Pittsburgh. Date: circa 1917

Dogs as Riffians during Melillan Campaign
During the Mellilan campaign in Morocco where Spanish troops fought against local Riffian forces, the Riffians dressed up dogs in turbans and burnous

Royal Horse Artillery in Great War Deeds, WW1
Sergeant-Major Dorrell and Sergeant Nelson of the Royal Horse Artillery, remaining alone to work the last gun of L Battery during the retreat from Mons

Royal Field Artillery in Great War Deeds, WW1
Captain Douglas Reynolds, Driver J H C Drain and Driver F Luke of the Royal Field Artillery, saving the gun from hostile fire at Le Cateau, for which they won the Victoria Cross

Heinkel He 177 -a close up of the heavy tail armament of four 13mm guns tested in Spring 1943

WW1 - French arrest a decrepit old woman (a German spy)
WW1 - The Germans gave the old woman a new white blanket and bribed her to walk behind any French battery that might take up a position near a certain village on the Aisne

Boys with toy guns, Balham, SW London
Four boys with three toy guns on a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

A cavalry charge that saved the line, Matania, WW1
The German line taken in flank by a mounted charge in the teeth of heavy machine gun fire. Major Evelyn H. W. Williams of the Hussars was awarded the DSO for his action

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