Infantryman Collection

Australian troops counter-attack at Amiens, WW1
Australian troops hold the line at Villers Bretonneux nine miles east of Amiens during a German attack during the Battle of Amiens in April 1918

French Soldier Sniping
An infantryman gets a target in his sights during the Franco-Prussian war Date: 1870

Recruitment Poster - British Military
THE MIDDLESEX REGIMENT, 57TH Regimental District - Headquarters, HOUNSLOW, 1900. Chromolithograph poster, printed by Gale and Polden Limited, 1900

WW2 - British infantryman in desert fatigues
Photograph of a British infantryman in desert fatigues advancing with fixed-bayonet and a shell bursting in background, El Alamein, 1942

Tommy Guardsman in full war-paint 1914
A Guardsman ready to take his place in the firing - line. The field service kit of the British infantryman in detail, with diagram. Date: 1914

British soldiers take interest in an Egyptian lady
Humourous Postcard - World War One era. British soldiers (a sailor and a Scots infantryman) take interest in an Egyptian lady who stroll demurely along under a pink parasol

Russian army uniforms, WW1
Russian army uniforms during the First World War. From left to right: general, guards infantry officer, guards infantryman, sergeant, guards infantryman. Date: 1914-1918

A veteran East Prussian Infantryman Frenkiel (who won the Iron Cross) in his full service uniform - clearly of Polish extraction. Date: circa 1900s

Nationalist Artillery in Southern Spain; Spanish Civil War
Photograph showing an infantryman (left foreground) and an artillery unit (centre) of the Nationalist army, somewhere in Southern Spain, 1936

A Roman Soldier
A Roman legionary in his armour holding a shield. Date: Circa 55BC

TURKISH INFANTRYMAN
Turkish foot-soldier. Date: early 19th century

FRENCH INFANTRY 1808
Two soldiers of the infanterie de ligne - a grenadier and a voltigeur (= light infantryman) Date: 1808

Infantryman from Annamese
COLONIAL Infantryman from Annamese (now Vietnam) Date: 1889

Senegalese Infantryman
COLONIAL Senegalese Infantryman Date: 1889

Russian infantry uniforms, WW1
Russian infantry uniforms during the First World War. From left to right: infantry officer, infantry officer in coat, two infantrymen, infantry sergeant in coat. Date: 1914-1918

Two British soldiers, WW1
Two British soldiers during the First World War, one equipped for normal conditions on the Western Front, the other for winter snow. Date: 1914-1918

WW2 - American soldier looks up the word kiss in French, which his romantic interest is thinking is not really necessary!! Date: circa 1943

WW2 - British soldier with a bottle of fine French Bubbly
WW2 - " With this I will never feel alone!" - British soldier with a bottle of fine French Bubbly. Date: circa 1943

Italian soldiers and sailor, WW1
Two Italian soldiers and an Italian sailor during the First World War. At the top: Alpini (Alpine, left) and Bersaglieri (Light Infantry, right); below: Marina (Navy)

WW1 - Three Smart German Soldiers heading to the front at the start of the First World War (card sent in September, 1914). Date: 1914

Greek hoplies. Greek classical art. Black-figure ceramic. Heavy infantryman of the armies of the ancient Greece. Classical Greek art. Ceramics

WW1 - To My Dear One - A Drummer pens a poem to his love, using his magnificent bass drum as a writing stand. " Though from your side I am away; My thoughts are with you night & day; With eyes

Japanese Infantryman, 1945 (c). Watercolour, artist unknown, 1945 (c). In uniform, carrying an Arisaka Type 38 rifle. Inscribed as title with additional paragraph of text about the uniform

WW2 - British soldier checks his chances using flower petals: " She loves me, she loves me not..." ! Date: circa 1943

WW2 - British soldier opts for wine instead of tea, which the pretty French waitress assumes to be his tipple of choice!!! Date: circa 1943

WW2 - American GI presents a French girl with flowers
WW2 - " He thinks I m Marlene Dietrich!" - Besotted American GI presents a French girl with a bouquet of flowers. Date: circa 1943

A hussar, an infantryman and a dragoon
Watercolour drawing by D G L, 1890 (c).Shows a hussar, an infantryman and a dragoon, all in undress uniform, scrambling for the entrance of a canteen. Date: circa 1890

Your King & Country Need You, 1914.Chromolithograph recruiting poster, after Lawson Wood, 1914, published by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, as poster No 18.A British Infantryman

American soldier, World War Two
A soldier of the USA, of the Great American Expeditionary Force, in Britain, January 1942. 1942

Buying Easter presents: an entente leave-scene in Paris
On the same errand a French poilu and a British officer shopping for their loved ones. Date: 1916

DE SOTTO, Seraf�Mar�Earl of Clonard (1793
DE SOTTO, Seraf� Mar� Earl of Clonard (1793 - 1862). Memoirs for the history of the troops of the Royal House of Spain. 1828. Grenadier (1815). Engraving. SPAIN

Paris, France - Barriere de l Ecole Militaire. Date: 1859

French Infantryman Somewhere in France
French Infantryman. Somewhere in France. 386202 Acting Sergeant Herbert Gibson, Mm, 1St Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. Born September 1889

On the way to Tipperary - Infantryman, 1914. Made for Mappin & Webb Ltd. English School

Infantryman, WW1 Rifle Brigade Memorial
Infantryman, part of the First World War Rifle Brigade Memorial at Grosvenor Gardens, London, SW1. By John Tweed (1869-1933)

Bronze figure of a Belgian infantryman, WW1
Bronze figure of a Belgian infantryman. Founders - Batardy Freres et Cie, Brussels, Belgian School

British soldier asking directions in France, 1914
How Tommy Atkins finds his way in France. A British soldier with a bicycle, lost in the windmill country of France, receives directions from a French peasant in November 1914 in the First World War

German infantry uniform
The typical uniform of the German infantryman at the beginning of World War One, a predominantly blue-grey uniform with the distinctive pickelhaube helmet made less conspicuous by the addition of a

Book cover design, La Vanghetta del Fante
Book cover design by Duilio Cambellotti, La Vanghetta del Fante by Giuseppe Zucca, showing an Italian light infantryman carrying a spade (the title also means Jack of Spades). Date: circa 1920

Cartoon, Italian light infantryman with Austrian eagle, WW1
French cartoon of an Italian light infantryman (Bersaglieri) during the First World War. He is holding an Austrian eagle upside down so that its imperial crown falls off

Confident British soldier on a postcard, WW1
Confident British soldier on a postcard during the First World War. Do I comprey? Not arf! Date: 1914-1918

WWI - Italian Garibaldier Infantryman at the Forest of Argonne, January 1915. Date: 1915

WWI - French Infantryman with a luxurient moustache, smoking a pipe Date: 1914

WWI - British Infantryman at Arras Date: 1915

WWI - Turkish Infantryman
Soldier of the Turkish Infantry Date: circa 1914

France - Souvenir Card of the 71st Infantry Regiment
Kitch Souvenir Card of the 71st Infantry Regiment - Saint-Brieuc, France. Posed by Omar Shariff?? !!! Date: 1910s

Harquebusier (c. 1600). Etching

French infantry soldiers (18th c. ). Litography
French infantry soldiers (18th c.). Litography

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