Legion Collection (page 4)

Paris, France - Invalides. Date: 1830

Paris, France - Hotel des Invalides, facade principale. Date: 1831

Queen Mother arriving for Remembrance Service
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother arriving for a Service of Remembrance at St Margarets Church, Westminster, on 10 November 1983. Date: 1983

Lady Londonderry, President of Womens War Service Legion
Lady Londonderry, formerly the Hon. Edith Chaplin, pictured in 1918 when she was President of the Womens War Services Legion (previously known as the Womens Legion)

British Legion Album - for Field Marshal Earl Haigs Appeal
The British Legion Album in aid of Field Marshal Earl Haigs Appeal for ex-Servicemen of all ranks. Compiled by E. Lonsdale Deighton. Book

WWI caricature of a lady driver of the War Services Legion
First World War caricature of a lady driver of the War Services Legion. Godfrey H. Brennan

Private Oscar Stanley Clark Blakstad
Bust-length portrait of No. 552748 Private Oscar Stanley Clark Blakstad (1893-1917) of Princess Patricias Canadian Light Infantry in the uniform of the Legion of Frontiersmen. Clarke

Bobette! by Higgins (Womens Legion)
First World War scene with woman wearing the uniform of the Womens Legion (Womens War Services Legion). The Legion provided all kinds of services including cooking for the Army, driving

Society war-workers, 1918
A page from The Sketch featuring four society ladies involved in war work. Top left is Lady Rosamund Butler, elder daughter of the Earl and Countess of Carrick

The Marchioness of Londonderry, president of Womens Legion
Lady Londonderry, formerly the Hon. Edith Chaplin, pictured in 1918 when she was President of the Womens War Services Legion (previously known as the Womens Legion)

Marchioness of Londonderry, President of War Services Legion
Lady Londonderry, formerly the Hon. Edith Chaplin, pictured in 1918 when she was President of the Womens War Services Legion (previously known as the Womens Legion)

Womens Legion uniform from Burberrys, 1918
A smart uniform in khaki adopted by members of the Womens War Services Legion and available from Burberrys. Date: 1918

The Womens Legion & Army Waste, WW1
Women inspecting copper vats filled with boiling soup, involved in a scheme originated by Lady Londonderry to lessen waste in camp kitchens

Guard of the Carbonara Legion
Guard dressed in uniform holding a gun and with a sword around his shoulder Guard of the Carbonara Legion Date: 1821

Rosa Bonheur - French Artist
Rosa Bonheur, born Marie-Rosalie Bonheur, (18221899) - French animaliere, realist artist, and sculptor. Date: 1882

French soldiers in trench, Vailly, France, WW1
French soldiers in a trench near Vailly-sur-Aisne, northern France, during the First World War. Painted by a member of the French Foreign Legion. Date: March 1915

Amedee Courbet - French Naval Admiral
Anatole-Amedee-Prosper Courbet (18271885) - French admiral who won a series of important land and naval victories during the Tonkin campaign (18836) and the Sino-French War (1884-5). Date: 1880

Roman massacre of Druids
Roman forces led by Suetonius Paulinus massacre the druids on the island of Mona (Anglesey) Date: 61 A.D

Graf Von Montgelas
MAXIMILIAN JOSEPH, graf von MONTGELAS, Bavarian statesman, minister of foreign affairs and of finances AND of the interior, earning the Grand Eagle of the Legion of Honour. Date: 1759 - 1838

Franco-Turkish War - Evacuation of Sile in June, 1920
Turkey - Black Sea Coast - Evacuation of the French population Sile - 17th June 1920, during the Franco-Turkish War. Known as the Cilicia Campaign

World War One - France - Legion of Honour
National Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre national de la Lez© on d honneur) - " How it is won". Patriotic French postcard of World War One era. Date: circa 1917

Memorial to Fallen English Soldiers - Mount Urgull, Spain
Memorial to Fallen English Soldiers of the Spanish Foreign Legion - Mount Urgul, San Sebastian Spain. In 1836 during the First Carlist War, a force of 10

Spain. First Carlist War. French legion attacks a Carlist trench. Litography. SPAIN. Ormaiztegui. Zumalacarregui Museum

Bronze Roman military badge (1st-2nd c. AD). SPAIN. Barcelona. Archaeology Museum of Catalonia

Spain. First swearing in allegiance to the flag of the Legion. Lieutenant Colonel Mill n Astray and

General Franco
Francisco Franco (first line, fourth left side) and Jos頍 illᮭ Astray (at his right) during the ceremony giving the Legions sabre of honour. Ministry of the War in Madrid, 1927

Lindbergh / In France
Charles Augustus Lindbergh with President Doumergue of France and Ambassador Herrick. Lindbergh has just been presented with the Cross of the Legion of Honour. Date: 1927

Queen Mother arriving for Remembrance Service
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother with senior officers of the British Legion, arriving for a Service of Remembrance at St Margarets Church, Westminster, on 10 November 1983

The first legion by Emmet Lavery a Jesuit play The first leg
The first legion by Emmet Lavery a Jesuit play. Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of The First Legion at the Avery Memorial theater

The French General Curiers de Castelnau, promoted to Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor

French General De Maud Huy
Portrait of the French General De Maud Huy, promoted to Commander of the Legion of Honor

French General Foch
Portrait of the French General Foch, promoted to Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor

Institution of the Legion of Honor - France, 1802 die stiftung der ehrenlegion. Napoleon I standing at the top of a triple-tiered platform hands the Legion of Honor to a veteran who lost a foot

Tam O Shanter escapes the devils - Burns Poem
Tam O Shanter rides with the devils close behind him... " And scarcely had he Maggie rallied When out the hellish legion sallied." Date: 1909

Wrestling match sponsored by American Legion, Sikeston, Missouri. Date 1938 May

British Legion Childrens Christmas Party, Walton, Essex

Four young men enjoying a pint of beer, Walton, Essex

Roman invasion of Britain
Julius Caesar leads an attempted landing on the British mainland, somewhere on the Kent coastline. Facing the Britons gathered on the shore

Roman legionaries fight
Roman legionaries based in Britain were drawn from many parts of the Roman Empire, which led to rivalries and occasional disputes, as illustrated here

Caesar invades Britain
Julius Caesar makes his first attempt to invade the British mainland, making a landing somewhere on the Kent coastline. The standard bearer of the 10th Legion urges the hesitant legionaries to follow

Romans at Mancunium
The construction of a Roman Fort at Mamucium (also known as Mancunium), at what is now the Castlefield area of Manchester, in the north of England

Iraq - French Foreign Legion cross Euphrates
Troops of the French foreign Legion cross the Euphrates River, Iraq in boats - January, 1926. Date: 1926

Poles in Italy
Polish general Jan Henryk Dombrowski addresses the Polish legion of Italy, in front of the cathedral, Milano. They fought for France against Russia. Date: 20 January 1797

Carl Kniaziewicz
CARL KNIAZIEWICZ Polish military commander of the Polish Legion, officially part of the Italian army but fighting with Napoleon against the Russians. Date: 1762 - 1842

Polish Hq in Rome
Polish general Karl Kniaziewicz establishes the HQ of the Polish Legion in the Capitol. Officially in the Italian army, they fought for France against Russia. Date: 3 May 1798

Poniatowki Portrait
JOSEPH ANTOINE PONIATOWSKI Polish military commander of the Polish Legion, in the French service during the Napoleonic wars, created Marechal de France in 1813. Date: 1763 - 1813

Roman Pig Carving
A Roman stone carving of a wild boar. The wild board was the emblem of the 20th Legion, one of the legions which helped to build Hadrians Wall, Northumberland, England. Date: 1st century

Packing Poppies
Packing artifical poppies of linen or silk, at the British Legion, for Remembrance Day, in memory of those who so bravely gave their lives during World War One. Date: 1940

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