Military Collection (page 16)

74th Regiment Armory, Buffalo, New York State, USA. circa 1900s

Pigeon as Military observer 1914
Miniature double camera with two lenses pointing in opposite directions was attached to the pigeon by harness to take automatic photographs at regular intervals over enermies ground. 1914

The Russo-Japanese War - Interior scene
The Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05 - an unusual card (awaiting final translation!) depicting an interior scene. Date: circa 1905

Cortes destroying his fleet. Colored engraving
Hernan Cortes (1488-1547). Spanish conqueror of Mexico. Cortes destroying his fleet, moored in the Villa Rica of the Vera Cruz, to prevent defections among his crew. Volume I. Engraving by J

France. Guard of National Convention (center), French Grenad
French Revolution (1789-1799). Guard of National Convention (center), French Grenadier Guard (left) and crippled (right). Colored engraving. 19th century

Canadians in Southampton
The Southampton contingent of the CCCF who were billeted near the docks at the Apollo Hotel. The Corps of Canadian Fire-fighters

A CCF crew
Crewing a British fire appliance somewhere outside Portsmouth. The Corps of Canadian Fire-fighters (also known as the Volunteer Corps of Canadian Fire-fighters and simply as CCCF)

George Heathfield Tomb
G A E HEATHFIELD military, depicted as the Preserver of Gibraltar Date: 1717 - 1790

HMT (Hired Military Transport) Ship Dunera, . Date: C1920s

WW1 - Duty and Honour bid us part - Joining up in 1914 - a British country gent leaves his Mother and joins up with many of his mates from the village. Date: 1914

French attack on German positions
A l Attaque. Tous les mondes a la bataille. (Everyone go to it). A French attack on German positions. C. E. Matras (French)

Belgian troops in a trench, Belgium, c 1917
Belgian troops in a trench, Belgium, c.1917. M. Dewart (Belgian)

Oval miniature - Harold Vaughan Tattersall
An oval miniature of an Officer of the North Staffordshire Regiment, Harold Vaughan Tattersall (b. June 27, 1887) by Katherine Sybil Haines (1885-?). Date: 1918

Duke & Duchess of Connaught visiting Red Cross hospital, WW1
The Duke of Connaught, together with his wife, visiting the Kings Canadian Red Cross Hospital near London during the First World War. Date: 1917

Allied Military Leaders receive Legion of Honour Grand Croix
Allied Military Leaders - WWII era. General Gamelin, Commander-in-chief of the Allied Armies; General Sir Edmund Ironside, Chief of the British Imperial General Staff; General Viscount Gort

Thessaloniki - Cretan Policeman, Jews and Serbian Officers Date: circa 1916

Church of England Service on a WWI battlefield for troops heading into the trenches - the Chaplain is officiating from a small field altar. Date: circa 1915

A fellow prisoner at Ruhleben. Frank Kremnitz

West India Regiment

The second prototype Scottish Aviation Bulldog G-AXIG
The second prototype Scottish Aviation Bulldog, G-AXIG, in Swedish military colours

NIGHTINGALE, Florence (1823-1910). British nurse and philanthropist. He organized military hospitals for the injured during the Crimean War (1854-55) and founded in London a nursery school

Greek triremes. Engraving. Warship appeared in 6th c. BC: It was used by Phoenicians, Greeks, Egyptians, Romans and Carthaginians

Portrait of the Prince Imperial
Photograph of Louis Napoleon, the Prince Imperial (1856-1871) as a young boy. Born as the heir to the French Imperial throne

Mortar Calculations - Fort Wright - Fishers Island, New York
Directing the range of the Mortars - Fort Wright - Fishers Island - New York, USA. Military Cadets using complex higher mathematical formulae and telephone instructions to work out the exact aiming

Procession of Horse Guardsmen - London Date: circa 1910s

Mounted guards destined for the Front - WWI
Mounted guards - British Military heading for the Western Front at the start of World War One. Date: circa 1915

Outward Bound. Sailing ship leaving harbour. Date: ca. 1847

Cadets quarters, U. S. Military Academy
Cadets quarters, U.S. Military Academy. Date c1901

Grant Hall, U. S. Military Academy
Grant Hall, U.S. Military Academy. Date c1901

Battle monument, U. S. Military Academy
Battle monument, U.S. Military Academy. Date c1901

Royal Horse Artillery Hounds, Shooters Hill, London
Captain Reed-Scot of the Royal Horse Artillery (Woolwich) leading out his draghounds at Shooters Hill, London. The pack consisted of 18 couples of hounds, kept in adjoining kennels to some foxes

Womans Relief Corps
A beautiful gilded and embossed postacrd promoting the viryue and history of the Womans Relief Corps - a charitable society to provide local relief work among the needy and to aid military veterans

Patriotic Postcard - WWI - Young Highlander
Patriotic Postcard - WWI - Young boy in the uniform of a Scots Highlander soldier posing on this Christmas Greetings Postcard. " I m Scotch ye ken and I ll let em know it!" Date: circa 1910s

Ambulance for wounded horses, World War One
An ambulance for wounded horses on the battlefield : the Canadian Mounted Veterinary Corps at work with field artillery. Men of the Mounted Section of the Canadian Veterinary Corps are seen

Patriotic Postcard - Officer and Union Flag
For the Old Flag A World War One era officer, pointing his pistol toward the enemy. Standing up tall before the Union flag, for King and Country... Date: circa 1916

General Alexei Brusilov
Aleksei Brusilov (1853 1926), Russian general in World War One, looking at a map with a magnifying glass to aid him

Winston Churchill walking along the street
Winston Churchill MP with another man, walking along the street. early 20th century

Lloyd George, General Wilson and General Foch
David Lloyd George (1863-1945), General Sir Henry Hughes Wilson (1864-1922) and General Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929), meeting around the end of the First World War

General Rawlinson and General Ironside, Archangel
General Sir Henry Rawlinson (1864-1925) (left) and Field Marshal William Edmund Ironside (1880-1959) (right), British army officers, seen here with others on the quay at Archangel (Arkhangelsk)

Drummer of 1598
A drummer of 1598. Date: 1598

Pretty Lady military drummer
A lady military drummer - the slightly saucy caption reads: " I wouldn t need a drum to follow you" ! A propaganda card from WWI. Date: circa 1916

Aerial view, Wesham Park Hospital, Lancashire
An aerial view of Wesham Park Hospital, Lancashire. It was originally erected in 1907 as the Fylde Union workhouse, then served as a military hospital during World War One

King George V at the battle front
King George V at an unspecified First World War battle front, meeting a nursing matron

French Cuirassier

Kensington & Chelsea District School, Boys Band
In 1876, the London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea established a District School for pauper children at Banstead, Surrey (later known as Beechholme)

Corporal - Drummer Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Corporal - drummer. Royal Welsh Fusiliers (1903-4) in Full dress. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Cretan Military Leader
A Greek Cretan patriot

Lord Kitchener inspecting Indian troops
Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, (1850 - 1916), Field Marshal, diplomat, and statesman, inspecting Indian troops at Hampton Court, West London

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