Honours Collection

WW2 Poster -- Map of the British Army
A Map of the British Army with Battle Honours, Military Achievements and Regimental Badges, first published in 1944 by HM Forces Savings Committee

Her Majestys Australian Ship (HMAS) Melbourne (21) shown with its complement of Douglas A-4G Skyhawks of 805 Squadron RAN ranged for entering port

1st Battalion Cheshire Regiments regimental drum
Original painting for the 1st Battalion Cheshire Regiments regimental drum showing 17 Battle Honours of the Regiment from Louisburg to Kut al Amara

Sayajirao III Gaekwad, Maharaja of Baroda
Sayajirao III Gaekwad (Shrimant Gopalrao Gaekwad) (1863-1939) The Maharaja of Baroda from 1875 to 1939, and a notable reformer

Queen Elizabeth II accepts the Honours of Scotland
Queen Elizabeth II accepts the " Honours of Scotland" (the Scottish Crown Jewels) at the National Service of Thanksgiving and Dedication at St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh, June 24, 1953

British Military Recruitment Poster of 1912
Royal Scots Fusiliers. Colour photolithograph recruitment poster of 1912, showing battle honours and scenes of regimental history. Date: 1912

King Ferdinand of Bulgaria
King Ferdinand I of Bulgaria(1861-1948). Date: circa 1909

Corporal of 16th The Queens Lancers
Corporal of The 16th The Queens Lancers - the medals worn are the India Medal (2 bars)and the Distunguished Conduct Medal

Portrait of Marchese Guglielmo Marconi
This is a portrait of Italian inventor, Marconi, born 1874, who revolutionised the world of communications with his wireless invention

St Dunstan and Jesus
DUNSTAN (the smaller figure) honours Jesus, who doesn t seem to notice... Date: 924-988

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

Agneta Ramsay / Punch 1887
AGNETA FRANCES RAMSAY Fellow-founder of Girton College, Cambridge, honoured by Mr Punch, June 1887

Lister / Begg / Iln
JOSEPH LISTER English surgeon, medical scientist and founder of antiseptic surgery

WW2 - French General Maurice Gustave Gamelin
French General Maurice Gustave Gamelin (1872-1958) - remembered for his unsuccessful role as Commander-in-Chief of the French military in 1940 during the Battle of France in World War Two

Antonio Valdes y Fernandez Bazan (1744-1816). Spanish military and marine. Illustration by Llanta. Lithography. Cronica General de Espana. Historia Ilustrada y Descriptiva de sus Provincias

Residence and Field Marshals Hall, Munich, Germany
Residence (Palais Preysing, left) and Field Marshals Hall (loggia, right) in the Odeonsplatz, Munich, Germany. The loggia was a symbol of the honours of the Bavarian Army. Date: 1885

Funeral with military honours during Revolution, Russia
A large public gathering for a funeral with military honours during the Revolutionary period in Russia. Date: circa 1917

Marchese Guglielmo Marconi (1874 -1936), Italian inventor who revolutionised the world of communications with his wireless invention

Guglielmo Marconi (1874 - 1937), Italian inventor, Marconi, born 1874, who revolutionised the world of communications with his wireless invention

Marchese Guglielmo Marconi (1874 - 1934), Italian inventor, who revolutionised the world of communications with his wireless invention

PRINCE EUGEN LIES STATE
The body of Prinz Eugen of Savoy, general who shared the honours of the Spanish Succession War with duke of Marlborough, lies in state surrounded by tokens. Date: 1736

CANADIAN FUNERAL PROCESS
A Native Canadian funeral procession honours its dead with dancing Date: 1726

Menelik Honours Makonnen Events Africa Ethiopia
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PERU FUNERAL HONOURS
The body of a dead Peruvian noble is honoured, then he is buried with his womenfolk (still alive) for company Date: 1737

Cartoon, Sale of Peerages by Lloyd George and Asquith
The Chance of a Lifetime. Cartoon, Sale of Peerages -- Asquith and Lloyd George sell off peerages. Date: 1910

The procession of the coffin of the Unknown British Warrior through the town of Bologne in France to the harbour where it was taken on board H.M.S

The visit of the Shah of Persia to Britain - meeting the Royal family at Portsmouth on 20 August, 1902. Group photograph onboard the Royal Yacht Victoria & Albert. Date: 1902

Regina Rifle Regiment Memorial, Courseulles, Normandy
This plaque, which is on a small pillar at the entrance to Juno Beach at Courseulles, carries the Regimental badge with battle honours of WW1 - e.g. Passchendaele, Mount Sorrell, Cambrai and Vimy

The Honours paid Raphael after his death, Rome, Italy
Deathbed scene of Raphael Sanzio (1483-1520), Italian painter and architect, in Rome. 1520

Cheltenham, Public School 1890s
Cheltenham, public School in Gloucestershire, with boy seated on long wooden benches reading. Date: late 1890s

REFORM, HOUSE OF LORDS
HOUSE OF LORDS cartoon regarding the sale of honours Date: 1922

CHARLES I WEDS H. MARIA
Charles I weds Henrietta Maria, sister of Louis XIII, in Notre Dame, Paris : cardinal Richelieu does the honours (the British people disapprove of the match) Date: 11 May 1625

Rosa Bonheur and Medals
MARIE ROSALIE BONHEUR This great French artist, by the end of her life, was (literally) loaded with honours. She liked to paint cows & other country subjects. Date: 1822-1899

Marquis Ito of Japan - Taro Katsura, Prime Minister of Japan
Marquis Ito Hirobumi (1840-1909), former Prime Minister of Japan, pictured alongside Prince Katsura Taro, then current Prime Minister of Japan (1848-1913). Date: circa 1901

Matchbox holder with AIF cap badge, WW1
Matchbox holder - made in Birmingham - with the Australian Imperial Force cap badge impressed upon it. On reverse, commemorating the Battle Honours of the 4th Battalion AIF

Three schoolboys apply themselves and become Oxford scholars
Three schoolboys apply themselves, becoming first class Oxford scholars. They then lend their acquired wisdom to become a Bishop, a Physician and a great warrior! Date: 1898

Abbas Hilmi Pacha
Abbas Hilmi Pasha (July 1874 - December 1944). Last Khedive of Egypt and Sudan (1892 - 1914). The Great Great Grandson of Muhammad Ali. Suceeded his Father (Tawfiq Pasha)

Cartoon, Henry Irving crowned with a laurel wreath
Cartoon -- Bears his blushing honours thick upon him! The legendary actor-manager Henry Irving is crowned with a laurel wreath. 1883

Marabout Sidi-el-Kebir, Blida
A young man observes the Marabout of Sidi-el-Kebir in the cemetery, Blida. Date: circa 1910s

Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany - Caricature
Savage caricature of (useless) son of German Kaiser Wilhelm II, Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany (Friedrich Wihelm von Preussen - 1882-1951)

Charles Denis Bourbaki (1816-1897). Colored engraving
Charles Denis Bourbaki (1816-1897). French military. The Spanish and American Illustration, 1870. Colored engraving

Laurent Jean Babille
LAURENT JEAN BABILLE French avocat in the Parlement de Paris, but despite his many honours, he doesn t rate a mention even in the big Larousse dictionary... shame ! Date: 1712 - ?

Lord Kitchener welcomed by the Egyptian Fellah
Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener(1850-1916): how the Egyptian Fellah(peasant labourers) honoured Lord Kitchener

Funeral of Turkish ambassador H R Baydur, London
Funeral procession of the Turkish ambassador Huseyin Ragib Baydur (1890-1955), with full military honours, around Marble Arch and Hyde Park, London, on 5 March 1955

Why aren t they in the Honours List? H. M Bateman WW1 cartoon
" Civilian Heroes of the Great War" Batemans WWI illustrations often mock the upper classes for their oblivion to the true extent to which ordinary people were suffering during the war

Edgar Vincent, Viscount DAbernon (1857-1941), 16th Baronet, pictured here in 1914, when he was a baron in the Kings birthday honours list. Date: 1914

Calendar - British Military
The Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Colour photolithograph calendar by unknown artist, 1910. Published by Gale and Polden Limited, Aldershot, 1910

Aynsley China Model of a Bell Tent - WWI
Aynsley China Model of a Bell Tent with the Battle Honours and Device of the 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys).Number 27, Registered Number 444566. Commemorative Ware

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