Honour Collection

The Great Sacrifice by James Clark, WW1
The Great Sacrifice by James Clark, originally published in the 1914 Christmas number of The Graphic

Massena - a pre-dreadnought battleship of the French Navy
Massena was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the French Navy, built in the 1890s. A member of a group of five broadly similar battleships, ordered in response to the British Royal Sovereign class

Free French - Honour the Maquis. The Maquis were rural guerrilla bands of French Resistance fighters, called maquisards, during the Occupation of France in World War II Date: circa 1941

Roman orgy to celebrate the Saturnalia
Roman men and women having an orgy to celebrate the Saturnalia, held in honour of the god Saturn. Date: circa 1st century

Great Orders of Knighthood and other high decorations
Insignia of the chief orders following in importance that of the Garter. The ribbons are represented by the backgrounds, except in the Order of Merit, and that of the Companions of Honour. Date: 1937

Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, 1953
General view of the State Procession down the Nave led by H. M. The Queen, flanked by her Maids of Honour after the Coronation ceremony in Westminster Abbey on June 2nd 1953. 1953

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) No pasaran! (They Shall not Pass). Poster in honour of the popular militia (July 1936)

Coronation. Royal Marine Guard of Honour march past
A contingent of The Royal Marines march into position as part of the Guard of Honour outside the west door of the Abbey. They will hold a position to the extreme right of the picture. 1953

Colonel Rollet, French Foreign Legion, France, WW1
Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Frederic Rollet (1875-1941), General in the French Foreign Legion, Regiment de Marche

Fitzwilliam Bewicke-Copley wedding
Scene at the wedding of Lord Fitzwilliam (Major Hubert Francis Fitzwilliam Brabazon Foljambe) to the Hon Gladys Bewicke-Copley, with an archway of swords provided by the Royal Horse Guards

German Student Duel / 1880
A German students duel at Gottingen. The Mensur, as practised by German fraternities, is a fast yet rarely-lethal affair with cuts accepted as marks of honour

Opening of the Mersey Tunnel - Liverpool Date: 1934

Awarding Victoria Cross
His Majesty King George V investing 2nd Lieutenant C.L. Cox of the 150th Field Co. R.E. with the Victoria Cross at the 2nd Army Headquarters, Blendecques, France

Foreign Legionnaire
A foreign Legionnaire, carrying the flag of honour on his back

Lady Rosemary Spencer-Churchill (born 1929), married name Muir, youngest daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough

Wedding of Viscount Althorp and Hon. Frances Roche in Tatler
Page from The Tatler reporting on the wedding of Viscount Althorp (later Earl Spencer) and the Hon

Les Diables Bleus - 21st Regiment of the Chasseurs Alpins
Les Diables Bleus - the 21st Regiment of the Chasseurs Alpins. A platoon on a mountain path by a stream. Pierre Comba (1859-1934)

Lady Jane Vane-Tempest-Stewart, elder daughter of the Marquess of Londonderry and the later Marchioness of Londonderry

Medina, Saudi Arabia - Hajj Pilgrimage - Sacred Carpet
Medina, Saudi Arabia - Hajj Pilgrimage - The Guard of Honour and Custodians of the Sacred Carpet Date: circa 1905

Roll of Honour. Commemorative Art
Roll of Honour of 18158 Private F G Outlaw, Z Company, 6th Battalion Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, including photograph. Commemorative Art

The Queen presents the F. A. Cup to Newcastle
The Queen hands the F.A. Cup to the Newcastle captain, Jimmy Scoular, watched by the Secretary of the Football Association, Sir Stanley Rous. B

Arthurian Tournament
Lancelot defeats Sir Mador de la Porte in the battle to uphold the honour of Guinevere

W. S. P. U Welcome Dinner Released Prisoners
W.S.P.U Welcome Dinner Released Prisoners. A menu for the Welcome Dinner in Honour of Released Prisoners, 16th February 1912. The prisoners including Mrs

Llangollen, Wales - Elisegs Pillar - erected in honour of King Eliseg of Powys circa 9th century Date: circa 1910s

Allied Military Leaders receive Legion of Honour Grand Croix
Allied Military Leaders - WWII era

In Memoriam - scene in Tewkesbury Abbey, WW1
A lone woman stands alone in front of a roll of honour, with the Union flag hanging over it inside Tewkesbury Abbey in Gloucestershire during the First World War. Date: 1919

The Queen wearing the imperial crown, members of the royal family, and maids of honour, on the balcony at the palace for the fly-past of the RAF following her Coronation on 2nd June 1953. 1953

Sir Douglas Haig and Vice Admiral Keyes at Dover
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig (1861-1928) and Vice Admiral Sir Roger John Brownlow Keyes (1872-1945) inspecting a Royal Navy guard of honour on their arrival at Dover, Kent. circa December 1918

Oak Apple Day at Chelsea Hospital
Lord Roberts takes the salute of the Chelsea Pensioners as they march past the statue of Charles II, which is covered with oak branches in honour of Oak Apple Day

Greece / Custom / Pallas
A procession in honour of Pallas Athene

Antiochus III of Syria returns Scipios captured son
Antiochus III of Syria, though an enemy, returns the Roman leader Scipio Africanuss captured son without demanding a ransom

Military honours for dead of R101
French homage to Britains dead in the great airship R101 disaster: the moving final scene at Beauvais - Spahis saluting the coffins, borne on French artillery wagons

WW1 - Duty and Honour bid us part - Joining up in 1914 - a British country gent leaves his Mother and joins up with many of his mates from the village. Date: 1914

Celebrating Bacchus
Country folk celebrate a festival in honour of the God of wine: Bacchus. (Greek: Dionysus)

Lieutenant Eyre Massey Shaw
Portrait of Lt. Eyre Massey Shaw of the Middlesex Regiment. The son of Captain B. Shaw and the grandson of the late Eyre Massey Shaw, he was killed on 30 July 1916 during World War I

Wellingtons Funeral
The Civic Authorities in the Duke of Wellingtons funeral procession passing down Fleet Street, London & the offices of Punch. The road is flanked by armed soldiers

English Regency naval officer and Spanish gentleman in a duel
English Regency naval officer and a Spanish gentleman after a duel with pistols. Admiral Bowsprit stands over the unconscious Castilian Rodrigo

Knight of the Order of the Garter, a British order of chivalry founded in 1344 by King Edward III

Ancient circular temples in Athens and Tivoli
Ancient circular temples. Elevation and section of the Greek monument to the honour of Lysicrates, a victor in the public games, Athens 1, 2

English gentleman in a duel, Regency era. A gent in bicorne, riding coat and boots, fires his pistol watched by two seconds

Ramon de Meer y Kindelan (1787-1869). 1st Baron de Meer and 1st Count of Gra. Spanish lieutenant general of Flemish origin. He took part in various operations during the First Carlist War

Paris -Patriotic demonstration in honour of General Saussier
Paris, France. Patriotic demonstration in honour of General Saussier (Dreyfus affair). Parade of the Patriotic Societies in Place Venda´me. Photoengraving. La llustracion Espanola y Americana, 1898

Roman crowns and wreaths
Crowns of the ancients: radial crowns 1, 2, laurel wreaths 3, 4, civic crown 5, Obsidionalis (for generals who delivered a town under siege) 6

Lady Anne Coke, later Lady Glenconner, one of the Queens maids of honour at the 1953 Coronation

Duke of York - Visit - Ras Tafari, Prince Regent of Ethiopia
Albert, Duke of York (1895-1952) accompanies Ras Tafari (1892-1975), the Prince Regent of Ethiopia who visited England in July 1924. Pictured here at Victoria Station, London

Visit to England by the Shah of Persia
Visit by Ahmad Shah Qajar (1898-1930) - Shah of Persia (Iran) from 1909 to 1925. The Qajar dynasty

WW1 - Officer in the Roll of Honour - Major S. M. Bruce, Indian Cavalry (37th Lancers). Third son of the late Colonel Edward Bruce, 19th Lancers, " Fanes Horse, " and of Mrs

WW1 - Return of the body of Heroine Nurse Edith Cavell into Dover Harbour on the R class destroyer HMS Rowena on 14th May 1919. Date: 1919

Major Herman Titov & Major Yuri Gagarin, Red Square, Moscow
Major Herman Titov, left, and Major Yuri Gagarin acknowledge the crowds in Red Square on 9 August 1961, during a rally in their honour. Date: 1961

Illumintaed Court of Honour, Franco British White City Exhibition in London in 1908

Court of Honour, Franco British White City Exhibition in London in 1908

In Honour Bound - Patriotic postcard - WW1
In Honour Bound - Patriotic postcard depicting the flags of the Victorious Allies of WW1. Date: circa 1918

Cambridge - Caius College, Gate of Honour - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Music cover, Souvenir de Leeds, Grand March, by William Spark (organist of the town hall)

Princess Elizaveta Trubetskaya, Parisian salon hostess
Princess Elizaveta Esperovna Trubetskaya (Lise Troubetzkoi, 1834-1907), Russian lady-in-waiting and Parisian salon hostess. Date: circa 1860s

Maria Pita - Spanish heroine
Maria Pita (Maria Mayor Fernandez de Camara y Pita) (1565-1643). Spanish heroine

Wawel Castle, Krakow
An illustration of the Wawel Royal Castle in central krakow, Poland, with more modern buildings set in front

General Jean Meiser
A sculpture of General Jean Meiser of the Belgian Army, Commander of the Legion of Honour

Cunard Line, QE2 - celebration album in slip case cover
Cunard Line, Isle of Man Post Office QE2 Farewell Season Celebration. Limited edition 156 of 189 QE2 Farewell Season Celebration large 14.5 x 14 inches album in slip case cover

The Emperor of India with Lord Hardinge descending from the platform on arrival at Delhi to inspect the guard of honour, December 7, 1911

Said Al Idris Senussi of Libya in Benghazi, WW2
Said Al Idris Senussi of Libya, guest of honour at British Officers Club, Benghazi, WW2 Date: circa 1944

Portraits of Poincare, George V, Tsar Nicholas, King Albert
Honour, Fatherland, Strength in Union says the French caption. WW1 Date: 1914

All the flags of the Allies fanned out
The card carries a verse entitled For a little Scrap of Paper'

Recruitment poster, Roll of Honour, WW1
Recruitment poster, Roll of Honour, Doing Duty From Here for King and Country - Are You Doing Yours? God Save the King. Date: 1914

HMS Usk - a Yarrow-type River-Class destroyer
Royal Navy - HMS Usk, a Yarrow-type River-Class destroyer ordered under the 1901 - 1902 Naval Estimates and named after the River Usk in Wales flowing through Newport

Wreaths for fallen Bolsheviks during Revolution, Russia
Wreaths for the graves of fallen Bolsheviks during the Revolutionary period in Russia

Funeral crowds in a street during Revolution, Russia
A large public gathering for a funeral during the Revolutionary period in Russia, with Bolshevik guards to keep order. Date: circa 1917

Suffragette Rose Lamartine Yates
Portrait photograph of Rose Lamartine Yates (1875-1954). She joined the Wimbledon branch of the W.S.P.U in 1908, becoming its secretary in 1910

London Brighton South Coast Railway Roll Honour
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Death of Tobias Rehs, 2nd Landwehr Infantry Regiment, WW1
1914-1916 - For the Fatherland, Death of.Tobias Rehs of the 2nd Landwehr Infantry Regiment on 6/3/1915. Honour his memory, an example and model to those who come after him. By Fritz Erler (1868-1940)

Chivalry of the air by G. H. Davis
The chivalry of the air: the courtesy of foe to foe. Showing a British pilot dropping a wreath for a comrade's grave in the German lines during the First World War

Spain. Civil War. Parade in honour of Franco in the Main Square of Salamanca (1937). Presentation of credentials to the Generalisimo

German propaganda postcard, Kaiser at grave, WW1
German propaganda postcard, On the Field of Honour, depicting Kaiser Wilhelm II standing at the grave of a fallen hero during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Changing of the Guard, St James's Palace, London
Changing of the Guard at St James's Palace, Central London. The colours are tied with black crepe in honour of the recent death of King Edward VII. Date: 1910

Tomb of Princess Yongtai
Detail of fresco decorating the tomb of Princess Yongtai in Xian city in Shaanxi province in China

The Nelson centenary celebrations in Dublin 1905
The Nelson pillar at Dublin covered in bunting in honour of Nelson a hundred years after his death on 21 October 1805. Date: 1905

Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands aboard a submarine
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (1880-1962) standing on board the deck of a submarine, September 1916

USA Medal of Honour (Army) Date: early 20th century

WOMAN WORKING TAPESTRY
A German woman working on a tapestry - a card created in honour of Woman by an artist who describes himself as a Ehrer die Frauen which seems to mean Respecter of Women Date: early 20th century

VICTORIA IN WOLVERHAMPTON
Following Prince Albert's death, the people of Wolverhampton raised money to erect a statue in his honour. It was completed in 1866, and unveiled by Queen Victoria. Date: 30 November 1866

MOURNING, GUINEA
Men of Guinea, West Africa, honour their dead Date: 1726

Menelik Honours Makonnen Events Africa Ethiopia
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ETRUSCANS BURN DEAD BC
ANCIENT ETRUSCANS The body of a dead woman is carried to the funeral pyre where she will be cremated Date: BC

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