Hero Collection (page 16)

Secret of the Pyramid
SECRET OF THE PYRAMID (Robert Moore Williams) The hero battles with the monstrous Zorlings in the interior of the Great Pyramid Date: 1939

Don Quixote on horseback
A scene from Cervantes novel Don Quixote -- the hero of the title makes his way across the countryside on horseback, dreaming of adventures. Date: First published: 1605-15

BAYARD (1473? - 1524)
PIERRE TERRAIL, SEIGNEUR DE BAYARD French military hero Date: 1473? - 1524

Irving / Rip Van Winkle
The village boys troop after Rip, their hero. Date: First published: 1819

Events / Britain 1510
Scottish hero Sir Andrew Wood defeats English insurgents in his ships " The Yellow Carvel" and " The Flower". The English vessels were in the Firth of Forth to raid the area

Seven-League Boots - 2
The hero crosses the ocean wearing his wonderful SEVEN-LEAGUE BOOTS

Bayard (Boilly)
PIERRE DE TERRAIL BAYARD French soldier and hero, known as le chevalier sans peur et sans reproche Date: 1473? - 1524

Soldier and sailor, United Service Waltz music cover

British Ballad, Johnny Of Breadislee
JOHNNY OF BREADISLEE (Johnny O Breadislee) British ballad, the hero evidently being a deer-stealer and an outlaw

Bayardo, the Gold Cup hero
The British thoroughbred racehorse, Bayardo, refuses to enter the paddock box at Ascot after the race

Metropolitan Police hero and his six medals
A Metropolitan Police hero and his six medals, earned during both the First and Second World Wars

The Warriors Return, satirical postcard
A wounded soldier, drawn as a wooden puppet and carrying his own broken-off leg, looks at a WD (War Department) signpost pointing to the workhouse

Kyriakoulis Mavromichalis - Greek revolutionary
Kyriakoulis Mavromichalis (? - 1822) - a Greek revolutionary who fought in (and was killed during) the Greek War of Independence

War veterans in Pyongyang, North Korea
Three veterans of the Korean War (1950-1953) pose for their photo in Pyongyang, capital of North Korea. Two are in their uniforms, one is in a suit

Flags and Memorial at Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Three flags in front of the Memorial of Suke Baatar (Mongolias national hero in the struggle for independence, Damdin Sukhbaatar, 1893-1923) in Sukhbaatar Square, at Ulaanbaatar (or Ulan Bator)

Captain Cook Monument, Gisborne, North Island, New Zealand
Monument to Captain James Cook at Gisborne, on the east coast of the North Island, New Zealand. The monument was erected in 1994

Captain Scott at the South Pole
Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868 - 1912), British polar explorer pictured in his kit during his ill-fated expedition to the South Pole

Captain Oates
LAWRENCE EDWARD GRACE OATES Member of Captain Scotts expedition which reached the South Pole in January 1912; lost his life in a blizzard on the return trip

Lieutenant Rex Warneford - WWI Ace Hero
On 7 June 1915 at Ghent, Belgium, Reginald ( Rex ) Alexander John Warneford, VC (1891- 1915), a Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) officer, flying a Morane-Saulnier Type L

Memorial plaque to Captain Scott
A memorial tablet in bronze to Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his companions, unveiled by the Prime Minister in 1916 in St

Statue of soldier, Lenin Monument, Sevastopol, Ukraine
Statue of a soldier on the Lenin Monument in Sevastopol, Ukraine

Fountain and monument, Kiev, Ukraine
View of a fountain in Independence Square (Maidan Nezalezhnosti) with a monument to the legendary founders of the city of Kiev, the three brothers Kyi (also Kiy, Kij or Kyj)

Lenin Statue, Vladimir, Russia
Statue of the Communist leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924) in front of a bank in the city of Vladimir, Russia

Lenin Monument, Sevastopol, Ukraine
Statue of the Communist leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924) on the Lenin Monument in Sevastopol, Ukraine

Memorial to Russian Navy, Sevastopol, Ukraine
View of the Soviet Memorial to the Russian Navy of World War Two, in Sevastopol, Ukraine, with marines on parade. Sevastopol is where Russias Black Sea Fleet is based

Rob Roys Grave at Balquhidder
Scottish Folk Hero and outlaw Rob Roys Grave (Robert Roy MacGregor 1671 - 1734) at Balquhidder, set alongside the medieval ruins of the small parish church

Warneford attacks Zeppelin at Ghent
On 7 June 1915 at Ghent, Belgium, Reginald Alexander John Warneford, VC (1891- 1915), a Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) officer, flying a Morane-Saulnier Type L

RICHARD SEAMAN Grand Prix driver
RICHARD SEAMAN in 1938 by Rudy Zeeman. Richard John Beattie " Dick" Seaman was one of the greatest pre-war Grand Prix drivers from Britain

Statue of the 8th Duke of Devonshire, Whitehall, London
The Marquis of Lansdowne unveiling a statue to the 8th Duke of Devonshire (Spencer Compton Cavendish, Lord Hartington, 1833-1908), Liberal politician

Guards take aim in Sidney Street, East London
Members of the First Battalion Scots Guards lying in the roadway, taking aim during the Sidney Street Siege (popularly known as the Battle of Stepney) in East London

Winston Churchill in Sidney Street, East London
Winston Churchill, then Home Secretary, together with policemen and civilians, during the Sidney Street Siege (popularly known as the Battle of Stepney) in East London

General William Booth on provincial tour
General William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, seen here in later life riding in an open topped car while on a tour of the provinces

A Night to Remember, book and film items
The book by Walter Lord, with an information folder and film poster advertising the 1958 film, A Night to Remember, starring Kenneth More, based on the Titanic disaster of 1912

Captain Rostron watch face
The face of an 18 carat gold Tiffany watch presented to Captain Rostron of the RMS Carpathia, as a token of gratitude from three of the survivors rescued by the Carpathia on 15 April 1912 shortly

Captain Rostron watch workings
The inner workings of an 18 carat gold Tiffany watch presented to Captain Rostron of the RMS Carpathia, as a token of gratitude from three of the survivors rescued by the Carpathia on 15 April 1912

Early aviation artefacts
A selection of early aviation artefacts associated with Louis Bleriot and Alcock & Brown. There are two pieces of wood from the plane in which Bleriot flew the English Channel in 1909

Selection of Titanic postcards
A selection of eight postcards, relating to the rescue of RMS Titanic survivors by the RMS Carpathia

Captain Rostron watch inside cover
The inside cover of an 18 carat gold Tiffany watch presented to Captain Rostron of the RMS Carpathia, as a token of gratitude from three of the survivors rescued by the Carpathia on 15 April 1912

RMS Carpathia medal and paperwork
Various paperwork, including a Certificate of Discharge, together with the silver RMS Carpathia medal (image side) presented to Thomas Alfred Holmes

Captain Rostron watch back
The back of an 18 carat gold Tiffany watch presented to Captain Rostron of the RMS Carpathia, as a token of gratitude from three of the survivors rescued by the Carpathia on 15 April 1912 shortly

Captain Rostron watch inscription
The inscription on an 18 carat gold Tiffany watch presented to Captain Rostron of the RMS Carpathia, as a token of gratitude from three of the survivors rescued by the Carpathia on 15 April 1912

RMS Carpathia medals
Six examples of the silver RMS Carpathia medal, showing both the image and inscription sides, presented to crew members of the ship that rescued survivors from the Titanic disaster in April 1912

Captain Rostron silver cup
A silver cup presented to Captain Rostron of the RMS Carpathia, as a token of gratitude from John B Thayer Junior, who was one of the survivors rescued by the Carpathia on 15 April 1912 shortly after

RMS Carpathia medal
The silver RMS Carpathia medal (image side) presented to Thomas Alfred Holmes, 3rd Engineer on the ship that rescued survivors from the Titanic disaster in April 1912

Vratza, Bulgaria - Monument to Hristo Botef
Local dignitaries standing before the Monument to Hristo Botef (1848-1876) at Vratza, Bulgaria. A Bulgarian poet and national revolutionary

RMS Carpathia Football Club
Members of the RMS Carpathia football club, each one wearing the Carpathia Medal awarded to those who helped rescue survivors of the Titanic shipwreck in April 1912

Funeral of John Cornwell
The funeral of John Travers Cornwell, the boy hero of the Battle of Jutland on the Chester, showing his body being conveyed through East London on way to Manor Park

Lammert Van Meliszoon
Nobody seems to know anything about Lammert Meliszoon van Westzanen, least of all us. But maybe he was a hero of the Dutch struggle for independence

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