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Scenes in India during the First World War
In the top photograph British Territorials rest during manoeuvres in a hilly district. The lower picture was taken at a public reception to Major-General Sardar Puran Singh Bahadur

WWI - Company Sergeant Major Alexander Gibb
" Schotte" - a full length portrait of Company Sergeant Major Alexander Gibb, 2nd Battalion Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders at a POW Camp in Karlsruhe, 1915

Major blaze at waste tyre dump, Mitcham, Surrey
Even though WW2 was over, the NFS continued until 1948. The London Region covered the Greater London including Mitcham, Surrey

LFB major control unit at Lambeth HQ
Control Unit vehicle based at LFB Headquarters. It had its own dedicated operational staff, and attended all major fires and incidents. Date: circa 1950s

Major fire, Smithfield Poultry Market, London
A major fire at Smithfield Poultry Market, London, on 23 January 1958 -- firefighters with hosepipes and a Dennis fire engine (rubble from roadworks not connected with fire)

Two firefighters at King George V Dock, East London
Two firefighters in action at No.9 Shed, King George V Dock, Port of London Authority, East London (E16), on 29 December 1974 -- a 30-pump fire

Major Cyril Clarke Borille Morris, LFB Chief Officer
Major Cyril Clarke Borille Morris, Chief Officer of the LFB from 1933 to 1938. Date: 1930s

Charles Broke Vere
Major-General Sir Charles Broke Vere (1779 1843), British soldier and Conservative Member of Parliament

Major fire at Prudential Assurance Building, High Holborn
Firefighters at work on a major fire at the Prudential Assurance Company building in High Holborn, London WC1, on 16 June 1932. Date: 1932

LFB annual review and inspection at HQ
LFB annual review at HQ, 2 July 1955, with the Home Secretary, Major Gwilym Lloyd George (1st Viscount Tenby, 1894-1967), inspecting the parade. Date: 1955

London Fire Brigade band at Brigade Headquarters
Group photograph of the LCC-London Fire Brigade band with the Deputy Chief Officer, Major Frank Whitford Jackson, sitting in the centre of the front row

Royal Army Medical Corps caricatures by Fred May
Portraits of members of the RAMC by caricaturist Fred May. Clockwise from top left - Captain A. J. McCready, Major W. T. Harkness, Lieutenant Brewen, Captain Banbury

Major-General Sir Frederick Barton Maurice, 1st Baronet GCB GCMG GCVO DSO (19 January 1871 19 May 1951), British general, military correspondent, writer and academic

Major-General R. Hutchinson, Director of Organisation at the War Office from 1916 to 1918. Date: 1918

Major-General Sir A. Lynden-Bell by Percival Anderson, WW1
Major-General, Sir Arthur Lynden-Bell (1867-1943), British Army General. Served in Gallipoli and Egypt during the Battle of Romani, clearing the route through the Sinai Desert to Palestine. Date: 1918

Major-General Sir George Macdonogh by Percival Anderson
Lieutenant General Sir George Mark Watson Macdonogh GBE, KCB, KCMG (4 March 1865 10 July 1942), British Army general officer

Miss Honor Dorothy Leigh by Madame Yevonde
Honor Dorothy Leigh (1892-1982), only daughter of Mr John Blundell Leigh of Stratton Audley, Oxfordshire and granddaughter of the Marquess of Abergavenny

Tatler cover - Dukes of Marlborough & Westminster in uniform
General Bridges, head of the British mission with the Belgian Army in Brussels, pictured with two of Englands premier dukes - Major Hugh Arthur Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster (1879 - 1953)

Lloyd Georges sons as soldiers, WW1
Son of the future Prime Minister, David Lloyd George in camp. Seated is Captain Richard Lloyd George, adjutant of the 19th Battalion, Welsh Regiment, and standing is Lieutenant Gwilyon Lloyd George

The Hon. Clarissa Tennant
Clarissa Madeleine Georgiana Felicite Tennant (1896-1960), daughter of 1st Baron Glenconner pictured at the time of her engagement to her first husband

Seeing themselves as Bairnsfather sees them
A homage to the cartoons of Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander, drawn by an amateur soldier artist, Major D. de la C. Ray

Miniature - Major Sir Frederick FitzWygram, MC
Miniature portrait of Major Sir Frederick FitzWygram, M.C. 2nd Battalion Scots Guards. Born 1884, died 1920. Captured on the 17th May 1915 (Battle of Festubert) commanding F Company

Le bois de Tr�- 15th July 1916
Le bois de Tr� - 15th July 1916. Major Alfred Kingsley Lawrence, Ra Rp, 19Th Btn/2Nd Tyndeside Pioneers, Northumberland Fusiliers - Commissioned 26.8.15. (1893-1975)

Prussian Pioneer Major wearing Iron Cross, 2nd Class
Portrait of a Prussian Pioneer Major wearing Iron Cross, 2nd Class. By Otto Dinger (1860-1928)

Ready for the 1st of July 1916 - details verso, WW1
Ready for the 1st of July 1916 - details verso. By Sergeant-Major George R. Spragg, Royal Army Medical Corps, 54th Field Ambulance attached 18th Division. Date: 1916

Captain Francis Grenfell retrieving the guns at Audregnies
The Taking of the Guns. Captain Francis Grenfell of the 9th Lancers retrieving the guns of 119th Battery Royal Field Artillery at Audregnies, during the Battle of Mons, 24th August 1914

St Columb Major Union Workhouse, Cornwall
A view of the St Columb Major Union workhouse. The building, erected in 1840, was designed by George Gilbert Scott and William Bonython Moffatt Date: circa 1909

The Royal Gala Performance, Paris Opera, April 1914. Fortunino Matania, Ri (1881-1963). One of the most accomplished realistic illustrators and artists of his time

R F A mule-teams pulling limbers over a shell torn track
R.F.A. mule-teams pulling limbers over a shell torn track.. Fortunino Matania, Ri (1881-1963). One of the most accomplished realistic illustrators and artists of his time

Wounded French soldier lying in bed in a hospital ward
Preparation sketch by Matania for a work depicting a wounded French soldier lying in bed in a hospital ward that was originally a school

Armistice Anniversary Night, Trafalgar Square, 11 November 1922. Fortunino Matania, Ri (1881-1963). One of the most accomplished realistic illustrators and artists of his time

Flanders 1914. Fortunino Matania, Ri (1881-1963). One of the most accomplished realistic illustrators and artists of his time

Miss Eileen Reed, WW1
Portrait of Miss Eileen Reed, only daughter of the artist and political cartoonist, Edward Tennyson Reed (E.T.Reed), pictured at the time of her engagement to Major Lennox Galloway. Date: 1916

Some Honours Men by Lieutenant Fred May
Caricuatures of some officers who had won military honours in the First World War. Bottom left is Captain Brown who got his DSO in 1914, was a prisoner in Germany but managed to escape

Charlie Chaplin and Ian Hay
Charlie Chaplin being interviewed in his studio by, on the right, Major Ian Hay Beith, (Ian Hay, the author of the First Hundred Thousand)

Major-General W. S. Brancker
Major-General Sir William Sefton Brancker (1877-1930), civil aviation pioneer, portrayed by Lieutenant Percival Anderson during the First World War when he was Comptroller-General of Equipment

Mrs Ian Hay Beith, wife of Major General John Hay Beith, CBE (17 April 1876 22 September 1952), was a British schoolmaster and soldier, but he is best remembered as a novelist, playwright

Major-General Sir John Steevens by Percival Anderson
Major-General Sir John Steevens, KCB, KCMG (1855-1925), British Army Director of Equipment and Ordnance Stores during the First World War

Captain Wilkinson reading The Tatler
Major Sir Nevile Rodwell Wilkinson, KCVO (26 October 186922 December 1940), British officer of arms (Ulster King-at-Arms), British Army officer, author and a dollhouse designer

Prominent racing personalities at Brooklands
Caricatures of famous racing personalities at Brooklands by The Tout - Mr Ns Hinde, the Hon. L Bruce, Major Linday Lloyd, Mr Malcolm Campbell, Dr Da Costa, Gordon Watney and the Hon R Westenra

Wife of Douglas Reynolds, V. C
The former Miss DOris Petersen, newly married to Major Douglas Reynolds, V.C. of the Royal Field Artillery. The Sketch magazine reports that the wedding was a quiet one as the brides family were in

2nd Duke of Westminster in Cairo, WW1
Major Hugh Arthur Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster (1879 - 1953), pictured at Shepheards Hotel, Cairo just after his return from his famous motor dash on the Senoussi camp in the direction of Mersa

British Airmen, WW1
British airmen from the Royal Flying Corps, First World War. From left to right, Lietenant Playfair, Lieutenant Mills, Lieutenant Soames, Captain Board, Major Riley, Major Higgins, Lieutenant Jones

England polo team arrive in the USA, 1914
The famous British polo team that won the International Polo Cup (Westchester Cup) in 1914. Team includes: Vivian Noverre Lockett (1880-1962), Major Frederick W

Major H. H. Ranjitsinhji Jamsaheb of Nawanagar, WW1
Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji (1872 1933) Indian prince and Test cricketer who played for the Sussex English cricket team. Pictured on the front cover of the Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News in

Sgt. Major Pete Robinson, cowboy horse breaker, 1916
Sergeant Major Peter Robinson, an ex-cowboy, who was engaged in breaking in army horses in the South of England during the First World War. Date: 1916

Women acting as Master of Foxhounds, World War I
A meet of the Whaddon Chase Foxhounds at Wing, near Leighton Buzzard showing Mrs Selby Lowndes acting as Master in the absence of her husband, Major Selby Lowndes. Date: 1915

The Merry Mummers, World War One entertainment troupe
The Merry Mummers entertaining troops at a West African Concert Party organised by Major P. a Beckett, son of the late Arthur a Becket of Punch

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