Medals Collection (page 14)

Swimming medal, Water Polo Championship
Medal of the Midland Counties Amateur Swimming Association, awarded to the runners up in the Water Polo Championship. Featuring an outdoor swimming scene with a lifebelt design below. Date: 1909

Rear Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock
Rear Admiral Sir Christopher " Kit" George Francis Maurice Cradock (1862-1914), British admiral who served in the Boxer Rebellion and during the First World War

Sir James Moncrieff Grierson
Lieutenant General Sir James Moncrieff Grierson (1859 1914). Date: circa 1910

King Carol I of Romania lying in state
King Carol I of Romania (1839-1914) lying in state. Date: October 1914

General Gaetano Giardino, Italian soldier
General Gaetano Giardino (1864-1935), Italian soldier who rose to the rank of Marshal of Italy during the First World War. He replaced General Cadorna on the Inter-Allied War Council at Versailles

Ahmed Tevfik Pasha of Turkey and his German allies
Ahmed Tevfik Pasha, Grand Vizier (Prime Minister) of Turkey from November 1918 to March 1919, during a meeting with his German allies at Spa, Belgium, towards the end of the First World War

General Dietrich and staff officers, Salonika, Greece
General Dietrich and staff officers on the quay at Salonika (Thessaloniki), Greece, during the First World War. Date: July 1916

Archduke Karl Franz Josef of Austria with soldiers
Archduke Karl Franz Josef of Austria (1887-1922), future Emperor of Austria (Charles I of Austria, 1916-1918), seen here pinning medals on some of his Austrian troops

Two Italian generals during the First World War. They are General Giuria of the Italian Army, and General Siebert of the Italian Air Force. Date: 1915-1918

Field Marshal Putnik, Serbian army officer
Field Marshal Radomir Putnik, also known as Vojvoda Putnik (1847-1917), Serbian army officer and Chief of General Staff. He served in the Balkan Wars (from 1876 onwards) and the First World War

Portrait of the Queen, Colonel-in-Chief, the Grenadier Guard
A portrait by Raymond Kanelba at the Grenadier Guards Tricentenary Exhibition at St Jamess Palace. The Queen is dressed in the uniform of Colonel-in-Chief

General Sir Ivor Maxse presenting medals, Belgium, WW1
General Sir Ivor Maxse (1862-1958), British army officer during the First World War. Seen here presenting medals to men of the 152nd Brigade at Sint Jan-Ter-Biezen, Belgium. Date: August 1917

General Lavr Kornilov, officer in Imperial Russian Army
General Lavr Georgiyevich Kornilov (1870-1918), officer in the Imperial Russian Army during the First World War and the Russian Civil War. Seen here on horseback. Date: circa 1917

German army officer examining a map, WW1
An unnamed German army officer examining a map during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz, Prussian officer
Wilhelm Leopold Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz (1843-1916), also known as Goltz Pasha, Prussian Field Marshal and military writer

General Lechitski, Russian army officer during the First World War, operating south of the Dniester River in 1916. Date: circa 1916

Manufacture of war medals, Royal Mint
Manufacture of General Service cupro-nickel war medals at the Royal Mint, when output was increased to half a million per week. circa 1940s

Admiral Franz von Hipper, German Imperial Navy
Admiral Franz Ritter von Hipper (1863-1932), German Imperial Navy during the First World War, including the Battle of Jutland and the Battle of Dogger Bank, and raids on Scarborough

Alfred Graf von Schlieffen, German army officer
Alfred Graf von Schlieffen (1833-1913), German army officer and field marshal. Date: circa 1913

General Gouraud, French Army commander
General Henri Gouraud (1867-1946), French Army commander during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

March past at medal presentation ceremony, WW1
March past of Scottish troops on the Western Front during the First World War, for the presentation of medals by General Sir Ivor Maxse. Date: circa 1917

General Sir J F Laycock, British Army officer, WW1
Brigadier General Sir Joseph Frederick Laycock (1867-1952), British Army officer. During the First World War he served in the Middle East, including a command of the Royal Artillery

Field Marshal General Potiorek, Austrian army officer
Field Marshal General Oskar Potiorek (1853-1933), Austrian army officer and Commander-in-Chief. He served as the Austro-Hungarian governor of Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1911 and 1914

Kaiser Wilhelm II, Emperor of Germany
Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941), the last Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia (1888-1918). Date: early 20th century

Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy
Victor Emmanuel III (1869-1947), King of Italy (reigned 1900-1946). Seen here in dress uniform. Date: early 20th century

Lord Herbert Kitchener in ceremonial uniform
Lord Herbert Kitchener (1850-1916) with others, in full ceremonial uniform, including many medals and a feather-topped hat. Date: circa 1914-1916

Raymond Poincare decorating wounded soldiers
Raymond Poincare (1860-1934), French President, decorating wounded soldiers at the Invalides, Paris, during the First World War. Date: circa 1915

General Alexei Polivanov, Russian army officer
General Alexei Andreyevich Polivanov (1855-1920), Russian army officer and infantry general. He served as Minister of War from June 1915 until the Tsarina forced his removal in March 1916

Louis Franchet d Esperey, French Army General
Louis Felix Marie Francois Franchet d Esperey (1856-1942), French Army General during the First World War. He was made a Marshal of France in 1921. Date: circa 1918

Jack Hatfield, British Olympic swimming champion
Jack Hatfield (John Gatenby " Jack" Hatfield, 1893-1965), British Olympic swimming champion, seen here at the time of the Stockholm Olympics in 1912

Zetland, Mason
The Earl of Zetland, the Most Worshipful Grand Master of the United Lodge of England, in his ceremonial garb and bedecked with medals Date: 1869

Music cover for The Queen and Prince Alberts Polka, by Louis Antoine Jullien (1812-1860). Victoria and Albert are depicted early in their marriage, turned towards the viewer as they dance the polka

Malby family group photo in their garden
Members of the Malby family (five adults and a baby) pose for a group photo in their garden at Woodford, Essex. On the far right is Reginald Malby (1882-1924)

Policemen on duty in London
Several policemen on duty, trying to control a large but friendly crowd of people on a London street

Metropolitan Police hero and his six medals
A Metropolitan Police hero and his six medals, earned during both the First and Second World Wars

Father and sons, one in uniform, First World War
A family group photo in a garden, with a father and his three sons, one of them in uniform, during the First World War

Local military chief and others, Far East
The local military chief, with others, some in uniform, others in civilian dress, somewhere in the Far East. There is one Western man, perhaps a diplomat, talking to the chief

Police experts examine stolen property

War veterans in Pyongyang, North Korea
Three veterans of the Korean War (1950-1953) pose for their photo in Pyongyang, capital of North Korea. Two are in their uniforms, one is in a suit

Duchess of Gloucester at Met Police cadets parade
Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester (b 1946) with police commissioners at a parade of Metropolitan Police cadets

Greece - King George I (1863 - 1913) - assassinated in Thessaloniki

Lieutenant - Kings Own Scottish Borderers in Full Dress. Wearing medals: DSO and Queens South Africa medal (1899-02) (with five bars). Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Squadron Sergeant Major - 17th Lancers
A Squadron Sergeant Major of the 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridges Own) - a Senior Scout. The medals he is wearing are The Distinguished Conduct medal

Paul von Hindenburg meeting veterans
President Paul von Hindenburg (1847-1934) in full uniform, meeting war veterans

Unveiling the Iron Cross WWI
The unveiling and inaugeration of the Iron Cross at the Brandenburg gate in Potsdam, Germany during World War I

Prince Andrew at RNAS Culdrose for training
Prince Andrew arriving at RNAS (Royal Naval Air Station) Culdrose at Helston in Cornwall for the start of his helicopter training. RNAS Culdrose is one of Europes largest helicopter bases

Honouring Antarctic Heroes
Officers of the Scott Expedition to the South Pole facing the camera after receiving their medals from the King at Buckingham Palace on July 26th 1913

Vice-Admiral Eugene Ivanovitch Alexeiev, Viceroy of the Russian Dominions in the Far East, around the time of the Russo-Japanese War (1904-5)

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