Guns Collection (page 8)

Italian artillery retreat
Retreating in the face of an Austrian advance, Italian artillerymen pitch their gun over a mountain precipice into the valley below

Aircraft machine guns by G. H. Davis
The principal weapon in air fighting during the Second World War: aircraft machine guns. American, British, French, German and Italian machine guns, capable of firing 1000-1200 rounds per minute

German guns made by Krupp, WW1
German guns made by Krupp, in use during the First World War. Above: the monster siege gun or howitzer, so heavy that 40 horses are needed to draw it

Two Battleships Comparison by G. H. Davis
A comparison of the American Iowa battleship, and the British H.M.S. Vanguard. The ships are each given dimensions and a deck view, which details the ship guns and command centers

STICK EM UP
Stick em up ! Boys playing with guns on the street. Date: early 1930s

Serbian Militia from South Serbia / Macedonia. Date: circa 1908

With the British heavy guns on the Western Front, Matania
A British heavy howitzer in action on the Western Front against an opposing German position. The shot has just been fired and Matanias drawing (done from official material supplied)

Jacobin. The French Revolution, 18th century. Engraving

Rifle, musket, carbine and gun. Tower brand
" Rifle, musket, carbine and gun. " Tower" brand. SPAIN. Vitoria. Museum of the Armeric (armoury)."

Lewis Gun Section, Palestine, WW1
A Lewis Gun Section (British troops) preparing for action in Palestine during the First World War. Date: circa 1917-1918

Projectiles and cartridges of German Paris Gun, WW1
Projectiles and cartridges of the German Paris Gun (also known as the Emperor William Gun), a long-range seige gun designed and manufactured by Krupp, used towards the end of the First World War

Russian machine gunners on eastern front, WW1
Russian machine gunners in action with a Maxim gun on the eastern front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1917

Dick Turpin holds up fellow highwayman, Tom King Date: 1735

Heavy artillery in action, Western Front, WW1
Heavy artillery in action on the Western Front during the First World War, with black smoke hanging in the air. Date: 1914-1918

War Bonds Wwi Poster
World War One poster encouraging the public to invest in war bonds to help buy guns and " bring them down" (presumably Zeppelins)

British Gunners placing a line of artillery guns during WW1 Date: circa 1916

Gun with comic verse on a Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

French postcard, Happy New Year, WW1
French postcard, Happy New Year, soldier and sweetheart with guns and bullets during the First World War. 1914-1918

Monkeys and dogs on a Christmas card -- The Swell Sportsman. Date: circa 1890s

Dogs out hunting on a Christmas card -- The Sportsmen. Date: circa 1890s

HMS Collingwood, battleship, on a Victorian scrap
HMS Collingwood, ironclad battleship, on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas card in the shape of a gun. Date: circa 1890s

The Ancient English Musket & Halbert Exercise, Plate 3. 1794

Two women in costume with horse in studio photo
Two women in costume, one dressed as a cowboy, the other dressed as a native American Indian, with a horse in a studio photo. circa 1910

Two boys on horseback playing Cowboys and Indians. Date: circa 1910s

Matabele Rebellion Memorial, Bulawayo, Rhodesia
Matabele Rebellion Memorial, Main Street, Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Date: circa 1908

40mm Bofors Light a guns on Mark II mountings
Photograph: 40mm Bofors Light a guns on Mark II mountings and Ducks stockpiled in England prior to D Day. Associated with D Day, World War Two, North West Europe (1944-1945)

Barracks, Ooty (Ootacamund), Tamil Nadu, India
Barracks with parade and gun salute, Ooty hill station (Ootacamund, Udhagamandalam), Tamil Nadu, India. Date: circa 1910

Guns at Waiwand 1880
Battle of Maiwand, saving the guns: though the British force was defeated by the Afghans, they were able to retreat to Kandahar in relatively good order. 27 July 1880

Laz gang - Turkey
Predictably the Black Sea man, or the " Laz" as he is called with a mixture of affection and sneer, has become a stock figure of the Turkish social typology. This gang is from Rize

Manufacture of Naval Artillery - Krupp Works, Essen, Germany
Manufacture of Naval Artillery at the Krupp Works, Essen, Germany. Date: 1906

Circassians drilling, natives of Circassia, who were displaced in the course of the Russian conquest of the Caucasus in the 19th century Date: 1913

Scrap Book - Naval Cuttings. circa 1940s

Cartoon, Hearing cannon fire in Constantinople, WW1
Cartoon, Hearing cannon fire in Constantinople, showing the ladies of the Turkish Harem alarmed by the sound of the guns of Gallipoli - likewise the Sultan himself! Date: 1915

WW1 poster, Buy More Liberty Bonds, Lend as they fight. Date: circa 1917

WW1 recruitment poster, Go Over with US Marines
WW1 recruitment poster, E-E-E-Yah-Yip, Go Over with US Marines. Date: circa 1917

Poster, Cyprus crisis 1957, reward for arrest of Grivas
Poster, Cyprus crisis 1957, reward for the arrest of George Theodorou Grivas, and for arms handed in. Date: 1957

Advertisement, C G Bonehill, Birmingham
Advertisement, C G Bonehill, Belmont Row, Birmingham, Guns and Rifles. 1890s

Rejected by the Inventions Board - Heath Robinson WW1
Rejected by the Inventions Board - III - A Device for Screw Stoppering the Enemys Rifles. Another elaborate and convoluted method of beating the dastardly Hun devised by William Heath Robinson in The

Gunners sheltering during a bombardment, 1917, Matania
With our artist on the Western Front - No II. New Series. Front cover of The Sphere featuring the first of a new set of drawings done by the magazines special artist during his latest visit to

Royal Artillery with gun, WW1
Group photo, men of the Royal Artillery with their howitzer gun, Bonnie Mary. Date: 1914-1918

Barnardos Watts Naval Training School, Elmham, Norfolk
" Barnardos Watts Naval Training School, Elmham, Norfolk. Boys and staff pose with their training ship the " George L Munro". Field guns also appear."

WW1 - Russian Infantry on the march in Poland, 1915
WW1 - Russian infantry battalion on the march in Poland with their kits and weapons during a Polish campaign. They show wearing the universal field-service dress

WWI Poster, Buy Bonds
Design by Howard Chandler Christy (1873-1952), Clear the Way!! Buy Bonds, Fourth Liberty Loan (American). Date: 1918

WWI Poster, Fill up the Ranks
We re both needed to serve the Guns! Fill up the ranks! Pile up the munitions! Parliamentary Recruiting Committee poster showing the importance of the munitions worker as well as the need for troops

Advertisements from The Illustrated London News, 1896
A page of advertisements from The Illustrated London News, 18th January 1896. Products promoted include Halfords curry powder

Selkup-hunter - Traditional hunting gear of a Selkup (north Siberias indigenous minority), knife, rifle, skies. Winter; Semi-tundra near river Taz, North Tumen region, Northern Siberia, Russia

Zeppelin machine gunners by Matania, WW1
Zeppelin machine gunners attempting to beat off a British aeroplane attack. The gunners are positioned on a 9 foot platform above the bow end of the airship

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