Ironside Collection

Allied Military Leaders receive Legion of Honour Grand Croix
Allied Military Leaders - WWII era. General Gamelin, Commander-in-chief of the Allied Armies; General Sir Edmund Ironside, Chief of the British Imperial General Staff; General Viscount Gort

General Rawlinson and General Ironside, Archangel
General Sir Henry Rawlinson (1864-1925) (left) and Field Marshal William Edmund Ironside (1880-1959) (right), British army officers, seen here with others on the quay at Archangel (Arkhangelsk)

Sir Edmund Ironside (1880-1959), also Field Marshal and 1st Baron Ironside, pictured shortly before his appointment as Chief of the Imperial General Staff on 3rd September. Date: 1939

Font in the Saxon church of St. Marys at Deerhurst, Gloucestershire, England, scene of a treaty between Canute and Edmund Ironside in 1016. Date: circa 1920s

Tatler cover, Lady Ironside by Madame Yevonde
Lady Ironside, formerly Miss Mariot Ysobel Cheyne, wife of Sir Edmund Ironside, Chief of Imperial General Staff during the Second World War. Date: 1940

Women with high-profile war connections, September 1939
Series of women, closely associated with high-ranking men, photographed in uniforms shortly after the outbreak of war, September 1939

Lord Gort and Sir Edmund Ironside studying map 1939
Commander-in-chief of British field forces, Lord Gort, and Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Sir Edmund Ironside, studying a map

Last phase of the Battle of Assendun (Essendune) on 18 October 1016, with the defeat of King Edmund Ironside of England by the Danes led by Cnut (Canute)

King Edmund II Ironside
EDMUND II IRONSIDE King of England for seven months in 1016

Janey Ironside wearing Ossie Clarke
Janey Ironside (1919-1979), Professor of Fashion at the Royal College of Art from 1956-1968. She pioneered understanding of fashion as an academic subject and among her students were Bill Gibb

Founders Week Parade, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Founders Week Parade, 9 October 1908, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. The float shown represents the Old Ironsides (railway engines) of 1832. Date: 1908

Edmund Ironside & Canute
Rivals Edmund II (Ironside) & Canute meet at Olney where they agree to a partition of England

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