Killing Collection

MONTPARNASSE ACCIDENT
At Mont Parnasse terminus of the Chemin de Fer de l'Ouest, the Granville train crashes through the buffers and into the street, killing a poor woman selling newspapers Date: 1895

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

Saint Francis and the Wolf of Gubbio
Saint Francis of Assisi befriends the Wolf of Gubbio, who has been terrorising and killing the townspeople, and obtains a promise that it will do no more harm. Date: circa 1205

Homo habilis in action
An illustration by Angus McBride showing Homo habilis using tools to kill an Antelope. Homo habilis lived in East Africa between 1.6 and 2 million years ago

Killing an Elephant for food, Paris; Franco-Prussian War, 18
Illustration showing the killing of an elephant, in the Jardin des Plantes, for food during the Siege of Paris in the winter of 1870-1

Fox-Hunting, the Death. Date: ca. 1865

Stoning of Stephen

Scene of the murder of Mr Bourke and Corporal Wallace
Mr Walter Bourke and Corporal Robert Wallace were murdered at Ardrahan, near Gort, in Galway in Ireland. The image shows the spot where Mr Bourkes body was found

Boeing B707 F-BHSZ Chateau de Kerjean
Boeing B707-328B F-BHSZ Chateau de Kerjean (msn 18459, line no.335), of Air France. First flown on 12 March 1963, delivered to Air France on 30 March 1963

Martin B-26C-T XB-LOX Ay Jijos ! of PEMEX Built as Martin B-26C-20-MO Marauder 41-35071 for the United States Army Air Force, 35071 was modified to AT-23B and later redesignated TB-26C

Mompunga, a Lushai chief, and Mr. Murray, political agent, taking the oath of friendship, which appears to involve spearing an unsuspecting cow. Date: 1890

Florida women crouch before a rival chief after a battle.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

Shin-Meiwa US-1A 9080
Japanese Maritime Self Defence Force - Shin-Meiwa US-1A 9080 (msn 2010) (crashed 21 December 1995 when it capsized on landing, killing 10of the 12 occupants) Date: circa 1990

Tupolev Tu-154M 102
Polish Air Force - Tupolev Tu-154M 102 (msn 90A862), of the Polish Air Force Presidential Flight. (Sister-ship 101 crashed on approach to Smolensk, killing the president of Poland, Lech Kaczynski)

North American Mustang F-AZFI
North American P-51D-20-NA Mustang F-AZFI (msn 122-31514, ex 44-63788), painted as North American P-51K-10-NT 44-12471 / R7-Y. Crashed killing both occupants on 24 July 1998. Date: circa 1995

Canadair CL-13B Sabre Mk. 6 N86EX
Canadair CL-13B Sabre Mk.6 N86EX (msn 1489, ex SAAF 380), at the Las Vegas Golden Air Tattoo, on 26 April 1997. This aircraft crashed, killing the pilot on 1 June 1997 at Broomfield, CO. Date: 1997

Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress 44-83575 (MSN 32216), painted as 42-31909 Nine-0-Nine, at the Las Vegas Golden Air Tattoo, on 26 April 1997

North American T-39N Sabreliner N314NT - 165522
United States Navy - North American T-39N Sabreliner N314NT - 165522 (msn 282-28, NA-265-40 Sabreliner 40), of VT-86, on the apron at NAS Pensacola, Florida

Canadair CL-13 Sabre Mk. 5 23226
Canadair CL-13 Sabre Mk.5 23226 (msn 1016), on display at the England Industrial Air Park, Alexandria, Louisiana, painted as North American F-86F Sabre 52-4931, which crashed near Nancy, France

Lockheed P-38J Lightning N3145X (msn 2054, ex 42-67543), of the Fighter Collection, at Boscombe Down for the Air Tournament International, on 13 June 1992

Canadian Car & Foundry T-6J Texan 1774 (msn CCF4-486, ex 52-8565), of the Museu do Ar, at Montijo (BA.6) (IZZ - LPMT), Portugal. (Crashed 18 May 2003, killing both crew). Date: circa 2000

Ling-Temco-Vought A-7A Corsair II 152674b
United States Navy - Ling-Temco-Vought A-7A Corsair II 152674b (msn 292, base code XE, call-sign 16 ), of VX-5 at Los Alamitos Naval Air Station, in California, on 29 July 1967

Cessna 180 HB-COU (msn 31700) On 12 April 1960, this aircraft crashed and caught fire, when the pilot lost control trying to regain VMC in low clouds (240 feet), killing all three occupants

Tipsy T. 66 Nipper Mk. III G-AVKT
Tipsy Nipper Mk.III G-AVKT (msn 70), prototype of the Mark III, at an air display in the Netherlands, circa 1969, parked next to Le Manchots (the Penguins) aerobatic display team

Piper PA-23 Apache G-ASHC
Piper PA-23-160 Apache G-ASHC Crashed 21 March 1964 at Melling, near Aintree village, on Grand National Day, killing all five persons on board (pilot and four passengers)

Grumman F6F-5K Hellcat 93879
Grumman F6F-5K Hellcat N4994V (msn A-11631, ex BuAer number 93879), a former United States Navy radio-controlled drone target, on display at the Air Museum, Lancaster California, on 28 May 1965

Martin XB-51 46-0685 Ordered as a Martin XA-45 but redesignated XB-51 in 1948. 46-0685 was used in filming of Toward the Unknown as the fictitious Gilbert XF-120 and crashed on take-off from El Paso

Pigeon Scout
Pigeon Fraser Scout 117, delivered to Langley Field November 1917, transferred o McCook Field for testing, but crashed soon after taking off on its first flight, killing the pilot

Georges Van Damme in the cockpit of the Renard R. 35 airliner
Ex Warrant Officer Georges Van Damme sat in the cockpit of the ill-fated Renard R.35, a pressurised airliner developed in Belgium from 1936

Royal Aircraft Factory F. E. 2 (second aircraft)
Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.2, powered by an air-cooled 70hp Renault V-8 engine, (R.A.F. - Royal Aircraft Factory), (F.E. - Farman Experimental)

Lancashire coal-mine disaster 1932
Bickershaw Colliery in Lancashire where coal-mine disaster happened on the 10 October 1932. A mine-shaft elevator carrying 20 people fell at the mine, killing all but one person

Seeking to arrest the dread disease: ridding the infected district of creatures likely to carry plague-microbes. Illustrative diagram in The Illustrated London News showing how a major cull of rats

Irene - a play by Samuel Johnson
Irene is a Neoclassical tragedy written between 1726 and 1749 by Samuel Johnson. Johnsons main source for the story of Irene was Richard Knolless Generall Historie of the Turkes (1603)

Senegal - Thies Rebellion, Dieye & Fall complain about food
The circumstances surrounding the outbreak of the Thies rebellion remain obscure. An article at the time said that the rebellion began after the sentencing to 15 days in jail of Diery Fall

Senegal - Rebellion at Thies - Sarithia Dieye captured
The circumstances surrounding the outbreak of the Thies rebellion remain obscure. An article at the time said that the rebellion began after the sentencing to 15 days in jail of Diery Fall

Senegal - The rebellion at Thies - Courtier Coumba Arehn
The circumstances surrounding the outbreak of the Thies rebellion remain obscure. An article at the time said that the rebellion began after the sentencing to 15 days in jail of Diery Fall

Senegal - The rebellion at Thies - Meissa Tabara
The circumstances surrounding the outbreak of the Thies rebellion remain obscure. An article at the time said that the rebellion began after the sentencing to 15 days in jail of Diery Fall

Senegal - The rebellion at Thies - Canar Fall
Canar Fall, head of Western Baol province in Senegal, considered to be the cause of the Thies rebellion of 7th April 1904, photographed having been taken prisoner

Russian Propaganda postcard - German Cockroaches
" The Prussians" A Russian propaganda postcard from WWI era, depictng Russian soldiers driving out the German menace, depicted as cockroaches

VERA Y ESTACA, Alejo (1834-1923). The Last Days of Numantia. 1880 - 1881. The inhabitants of Numancia killing themselves before the conquest of the Roman army under Scipio Emilianus. Oil on canvas

Lewis Thornton Powell aka Lewis Payne
Lewis Payne was implicated in the plot to kidnap President Abraham Lincoln in 1865. The group also included John Wilkes Booth, David Herold, Samuel Bland Arnold, Michael O Laughlen and John Surratt

Ned Kelly- The Glenrowan Inn
The ruins of the hotel in Glenrowan after the siege. Ned Kelly and his gang attempted to derail a train carrying a number of police officers

Fox chasing rabbits
A fox chases a colony of rabbits through the snow and brings one down

Killing Cattle Argentina
Public slaughtering of cattle, Argentina. Date: circa 1840

Cartoon, Killing a Grouse, WW1
Cartoon, Killing a Grouse. Orderly Officer: The teas alright; whats the complaint? Tommy: It ain t tea, sir - its stoo ! Orderly Officer: And very nice stoo ! By Charles Crombie

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