Homage Gallery

Military honours for dead of R101

French homage to Britain's dead in the great airship R101 disaster: the moving final scene at Beauvais - Spahis saluting the coffins, borne on French artillery wagons. The remains of the dead from airship R101 which crashed on its maiden voyage, were placed in numbered coffins at Allonne, the village near the scene of the disaster, and conveyed to Beauvais, where they were received with military honours and lay-in-state during the night of 6th October in the town hall. Thousands of people lined the streets as the next morning the coffins left Beauvais by special train for Boulogne

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

A Devotee of The Doctrine

A Devotee of "The Doctrine." - A satirical cartoon from Punch Magazine. A Mexican man wearing a small sombrero and two bandoliers across his chest and waist, holds a smoking gun as he places a wreath labelled Grateful Homage from General Villa at the foot of a statue bearing the inscription To the memory of President James Monroe, Doctrinaire. 1758-1831. No European Intervention. This is a comment on General Huerta receiving arms from Germany during the Mexican Revolution. Date: 1914

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Delivery of gifts to a king. Detail of a miniature of the Bi

Delivery of gifts to a king. 11th century. Detail of a miniature of the Bible of St. Peter of Roda illustrated possibly before the year 1050 on the desktop of the monastery of Ripoll. National Library. Paris. France

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