Helmets Collection (page 12)

Police and anti-fascist demonstrators, Central London
Street scene in Central London, showing police (some on foot, some on horseback) with a crowd of anti-fascist demonstrators. The event appears to be fairly peaceful. Date: late 1970s

Metropolitan Police officer fitted with his uniform
A newly recruited Metropolitan Police officer who has just been fitted with his uniform and helmet at a police clothing store in Lambeth Road, south east London

Newly recruited Metropolitan Police officers in uniform
A line of newly recruited Metropolitan Police officers are fitted with their uniforms and helmets at a police clothing store in Lambeth Road, south east London

World War One short story illustration
Illustrated header to a story entitled No, no, Murgatroyd! by Cosmo Hamilton featuring British World War One soldiers traipsing through the devastated landscape of the Western Front. Date: 1926

Metropolitan Police officers fitted with uniforms
Some newly recruited Metropolitan Police officers being fitted with their uniforms and helmets at a police clothing store in Lambeth Road, south east London

Christmas morning service at the Tower of London
A Christmas Morning service at St. Peters Church in the Tower of London in 1911, attended by well-dressed ladies, Yeoman of the Guard (beefeaters) and guards officers in bearskin helmets. Date: 1911

Russian troops halted on Balkan Front, WW1
Russian troops halted on the road on the Balkan Front during the First World War. They have been issued with French pattern steel helmets. Date: September 1916

Inniskillings at Chinese railway station
The Inniskilling Fusiliers, stationed in China, are ordered back to Europe to die on the western front : a scene in transit at Tientsin (now Tianjin)

American Football Team Photo - possibly a British-based team as they appear to be playing on a football (soccer!) pitch. Date: 1910

Belgian cavalry in a Brussels street, WW1
Belgian cavalry riding along a Brussels street, Belgium, at the start of the First World War. Date: August 1914

American Football - Columbia University versus Cornell - New York, USA. Columbias star player Ralph Hewitt (1907-1987) is brought down by Pond of Cornell in the third period of the battle between

Horatio Bottomley at Arras, 1917
Mr Bottomley about to leave a Divisional Headquarters for the front line, in Arras, France during World War One. Horatio Bottomley (1860 - 1933) was a British financier

Two British machine gunners, Battle of the Somme, WW1
Two British machine gunners near Ovillers during the Battle of the Somme, northern France, during the First World War. They are using a Vickers Gun and wearing their gas helmets. Date: July 1916

World War One - Trophy of German Helmets
World War One - British Tommies sporting captured trophies - most obviously Hun Helmets and bayonets. Date: circa 1916

Crown Prince Wilhelm of Prussia in a car, WW1
Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Victor August Ernst of Prussia (1882-1951). Seen here at the wheel of a car, chatting with soldiers during the First World War. Date: 1915-1916

First American POWs - WWI - 1917
First eight American POWs in a German Camp. Date: 1917

Roman Shoes & Jewellery
Various Roman shoes, jewels and hairstyles. Date: ANCIENT ROME

Playing at Soldiers
French children with makeshift helmets and swords, playing at soldiers Date: Twentieth century

Helmets, Crowns, Banners
Crowns, banners and religious coats of arms of the 18th century. Examples of helmets for kings, emperors, princes counts, marquis, noblemen and simple soldiers. Date: circa 1760

Fairground 1930S
A busy scene at a fairground, showing families milling around the rides, most of them wearing various types of hats - cloche, pith helmets, straw boaters, trilbys, etc. Date: early 1930s

Fire engine in Paris, answering a call
An electric fire engine of the Paris Fire Brigade, answering an emergency call. 1900

Old Man arrested - eyes covered
Walter Parsons (aged 63) arrested and walked by two Policemen to Penzance Magistrates Court. One of the coppers partially obscures the photographers view of the felon with a folded sheaf of papers

Policemen in wartime tin helmets
Two policemen in tin helmets worn during the Second World War

Metropolitan Police motor cyclists
A group of Metropolitan Police motor cyclists, with the River Thames and Tower Bridge in the background

Policemen with their bicycles
A group of policemen with their bicycles

The Bridge Builders
The title page of Rudyard Kiplings short story The Bridge Builders, as it first appeared in the Illustrated London News Christmas issue, 1893

Carmarthen fire crew, Carmarthen, South Wales
Ten members of the Carmarthen fire crew pose for their photograph outside Coopers Goods in Carmarthen, the county town of Carmarthenshire, Dyfed, South Wales

Two mounted Metropolitan Police Officers on patrol through an inner London Council Estate

Soldiers cleaning their weapons
A group of soldiers during the First World War cleaning their weapons

Soldiers and tank in trench
A group of World War One soldiers, looking at an armoured tank which has accidentally slipped into their trench

People on an outing in a punt, Middle East
A group of people enjoying an outing in a punt, somewhere in the Middle East. Most of them are wearing pith helmets. At the far end of the boat is a native man using a punting pole

Three little girls wearing toy hats, Scotland
Three little girls wearing toy hats -- a fez and two pith helmets -- standing on a hill somewhere in the Scottish countryside

Seven people and a dog, Middle East
Seven people -- four men and three women -- and a dog pose for an informal photo, with pith helmets in abundance, somewhere in the Middle East

Eleven people in a garden wearing pith helmets -- six men and five women. One of the men is wearing shorts, and another man is in jodhpurs; the women are wearing ankle-length skirts

Two policewomen registering for war work
Two Met Police women registering for war work at a labour exchange in London

War Reserve policemen, London
A group of War Reserve policemen in London pose for their photograph during the Second World War. They are wearing tin helmets and striped armbands

Two policemen on a war damaged street
Two policemen with a man in uniform (possibly a civil defence worker) on a war damaged street in London

Group of policemen, Battersea, London
A group of policemen pose for their photograph at Battersea in south west London. They are all in uniform, some wearing helmets, others (the Special Constables) in peaked caps

Clearing up after the Battle of Menin Road
German soldiers clearing up after the Battle of the Menin Road Ridge on the Western Front near Ypres, France. The battle itself took place 20-25 September 1917

Barrack Room - Dijon, France
The interior of a Police barrack room, with a group of French soldiers (some seated) in the foreground, all bearing swords, engaged in police duty

D-Day - US troops waiting for the moment of attack
A tension-filled photograph depicting American troops and medical personnel awaiting the moment of attack during the Normandy landings. The horror of the beaches would only be moments away

Lady Cheylesmore presenting prizes
Lady Cheylesmore (Elizabeth Richardson French, d.1945) presenting the prizes at the Annual London Fire Brigade Display at Battersea Park, south west London

Regular Fireman - Constantinople, Turkey
Regular fireman in constantinople drill at their compound, practising scaling the side of a dummy building with long ladders and hosing down a fire

MG Midget
Two sport chaps out for a jaunt in an MG M-type Midget (8 HP). They are jhaving a joke with an older gent in a white coat, holding a large jar of cider and smoking a pipe!

Essad Vichy Bey
Celebrated Fencer Essad Vichy Bey surrounded by his intimate friends

British troops march to the Front 1916
British troops, possibly from the Worcestershire Regiment, march along the Acheux Road, happily waving their helmets at the photographer as they head for the front line trenches a few days before

Awarding the War Cross - Dardanelles
The awarding of the War Cross to allied soldiers in the Dardanelles - 16th July 1915. Engineers Park, Sed Dur-Bahr, Turkey

A ride in an aeroplane
Two little girls wearing flying helmets sit in the open cockpit of an aeroplane, eyes agog, enjoying their first flight in an aeroplane

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