Messenger Collection (page 3)

The Dogs of War - Let Loose
A page from The Bystander featuring pictures of the training of messenger dogs for war service by Major Richardson at his training school

Miles Messenger 2A G-AJFC built in 1947. Owned privately by George Gibson it crashed at Bognor Regis in 1963 Date: circa 1960

Vesta Tilley as a messenger boy
Miss Vesta Tilley (1864-1952), born Matilda Alice Powles, later Lady de Frece, music hall and variety entertainer best known for her male impersonations

Training dogs at the British War Dog School, WW1
Part of the training ground at the War Dog School, which trained dogs in readiness for serving at the front during First World War in various roles such as sentries and messengers

British messenger dog, WW1
Messenger dog, Nell. This dog worked with the British Army throughout the war, delivering messages between trenches and headquarters

Mrs Richardson and her dog pupils, WW1
Mrs Richardson, wife of Lieut.-Col. E. H. Richardson, Commandant of the British War Dog School during the First World War, pictured with a selection of some of her canine pupils

British messenger dogs, WW1
Keeper Coull with three of his charges - messenger dogs used by the British Army during the First World War to carry messages between trenches, headquarters and stretches of land

WW1 messenger dogs - training them under rifle fire
Messenger dogs of the British Army undergoing training under rifle fire, to mimic conditions under which they would have to carry messages on the Western Front. Date: 1914-18

WW1 messenger dogs - training them to jump barbed wire
Messenger dogs destined for the British Army, being trained to jump and clear barbed wire entanglements during the First World War. Date: 1914-18

WW1 messenger dog
A British soldier securing a message to a messenger dogs collar on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914-18

WW1 dogs, Keeper Reid with messenger dogs
Keeper Reid with three of his messenger dogs, trained to take messages between trenches and across dangerous stretches of the front line during the First World War

Lieut. -Col. E. H. Richardson of British War Dog School, WW1
Lieut.-Col. E. H. Richardson, Commandant of the British War Dog School during the First World War. Responsible for introducing messenger dogs for use by the British Army at the front. Date: 1914-18

Senior Scout helping during Coronation
One of the Senior Scouts who helped during the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953, carrying out Messenger duties for the Lord Chamberlains Office. Date: 1953

Motor cyclist on the Western Front, WW1
A motor cyclist putting his enthusiasm to good use on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914

British aeroplanes for private ownership by G. H. Davis
Aircraft for the owner-pilot: British aeroplanes designed and built solely for private ownership. Showing 1945 examples of the family aeroplane of the future -- sturdy, reliable, and easy to fly

Messenger Gas lit chandelier
A gas lit chandelier shown at the 1862 International Exhibition held in London, and made by Samuel Messenger of Birmingham 1862

A French messenger dog delivers an important signal from Hea
A photograph of three French soldiers, who do not appear to be wearing an official uniform, reading a message that has been delivered in the collar of a dog. 1916

George Williamson
GEORGE WILLIAMSON Kings Messenger, Edinburgh Date: circa 1811

Messenger Monsey
MESSENGER MONSEY Physician to Chelsea Hospital, London, noted for his eccentricities. Date: 1693 - 1788

Miles M38 Messenger, RH370

Society staff & organisers of International Aero Exhibition
Society staff and organisers of the International Aero Exhibition at Olympia, 16-27 July 1929. From left: (Back row) Boy Messenger, Miss N.G. Jones, J.E. Hodgson, Miss Jarvis, Capt J.L

Miles M48 Messenger 3 G-AGOY
Miles M48 Messenger 3, G-AGOY, the prototype Miles M65 Gemini, G-AGUS, and Miles M57 Aerovan II, G-AGWO

Miles M38 Messenger PH-NDR
Miles M38 Messenger, PH-NDR

Miles M38 Messenger 4 G-AKKG
Miles M38 Messenger 4, G-AKKG

Miles M38 Messenger RH375
Miles M38 Messenger, RH375

Miles M38 Messenger RH374
Miles M38 Messenger, RH374

An early production Miles M38 Messenger U-0245
An early production Miles M38 Messenger, U-0245

George Miles flying the prototype Miles M38 Messenger U-022
George Miles flying the prototype Miles M38 Messenger, U-0223, into a net during arrested landing experiments

The History of Hannibal: Mago, Hannibals messenger, in Carthage. ca. 1570. Mago recounts the victory at Cannae and displays the plunder before the Senate

The History of Pope Alexander III. 1407 - 1408. Alexander III receiving a messenger from Barbarossa. Renaissance art. Quattrocento. Fresco. ITALY. Siena. Public Palace

Arrival of a messenger to Lenins headquarters. Russian theoretician and communist leader politician Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov LENIN (1870-1924)

Messenger Boy
People You See. From Teddy Bear (date unknown)

Messenger boy working for Mackay Telegraph Company. Said fifteen years old. Exposed to Red Light dangers. Location: Waco, Texas. Date 1913 September

Architectural drawing showing elevation, cross section, and plan for a hirondellier militair, a military aviary for swallows used as messenger birds. Date 1889

Military Pigeon Loft and attendants - Kazakhstan Date: 1904

Messenger dogs billeted behind the front line trenches, soldiers stood by kennels with their dogs Date: 20th century

British pilot with messenger pigeon, WW1
A British seaplane pilot in the cockpit, attaching a message to the leg of a messenger pigeon during the First World War. Date: early 1918

Iris Makes Rainbow
In pre-scientific days, rainbows were credited to Iris, the messenger of the gods : the rainbow was the bridge whereby she came down from the heavens

King & Officers C14Th
A King (in white) with officers of his court Date: 14 Century

Cycle messengers
Bicycling, New York Streets. Group of bicycle messengers in front of the New York Herald building

German bombing patrol WWI
German bombing patrol in a shell hole on the Western Front during World War I. Note the Disc grenades being taken from special carrier attached to messenger dog

Austrian army messenger dogs
Training Austrian Army messenger dogs

German soldiers 1932
The regimental signals platoon with their messenger dog during German military manouevres in 1932 Date: 1932

Footman from Sais, Egypt
A Footman from Sais, Egypt (on the Western Nile), wearing a fine patterned waistcoat / jerkin and holding a long thin stick

Two Egyptian Footmen
A hand-tinted card depicting two footmen from Sais, Egypt (on the Western Nile), wearing white tunics, patterned waistcoat and sashes and holding long sticks

Oedipus Tyrannus 5
left, a messenger : right, Oedipus, having blinded himself, embraces his children, before taking to the roads as a wanderer with his daughter Antigone

Oedipus Tyrannus 4
Tiresias, blind soothsayer who foretells gloom and woe : a messenger from Corinth who brings bad news : a herdsman of Laius who has disquieting revelations

Greece Marathon
Site of the battle of 490 BCE when a Greek army (mainly Athenian) defeated the very much larger force of Persian invaders. A messenger ran back to Athens with the news

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