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Mortar pile 1916Members of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps take time out from fusing the Stokes Trench Mortars on which they are sitting to play cards, using a copy of the Daily Mail as a playing surface Date: 1916
Coin marked James Hallett-Curer of All DiseasesIllustration showing the design for a coin marked " James Hallett-Curer of All Diseases", 1795. HPG/8/6/2"
U. S. 81mm Mortar overlooking the Burma RoadU.S. 81mm Mortar overlooking the Burma Road, Lashio, Burma - January / February, 1945. Japanese supply and communications lines were pounded during the battle for the strategic ground north of this
Father with children, Kashgar, western ChinaA father with two children outside their home in Kashgar, western China. He appears to be getting them washed from a small bowl of water. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts
Oh, That GirlA colour illustration of a curvaceous young lady who has playfully dressed in a cloak and mortar
Two Louis-Phillippe mortar employed in the French trenches
A German trench-mortar, which was introduced to the BritishA weapon which throws a 187 lb mine shell
German Self-Propelled Mortar, Second World War, c. 1945Photograph showing a German soldier standing beside a self-propelled mortar, which weighed about 120 tons, c.1945
Captured Nebelwerfers in Tunisia; Second World War, 1943Photograph showing Allied soldiers inspecting captured German Nebelwerfer guns in Tunisia, North Africa, 1943. The Nebelwerfer was a six-barrelled mortar on a mobile carriage
British soldiers carrying trench-mortar ammunitionBritish soldiers, laden with ammunition for their trench-mortars, walking to the front lines in 1916
Damaged Concrete Wall, France; Second World War, 1944Photograph showing the damage caused to a reinforced concrete wall by a Flying Dustbin explosive charge, France, 1944. The Churchill AVRE (Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers)
American Indians. The Red Indian on show at Earls Court. MA native American and his wife pounding corn in a large pestle and mortar
Churchill AVRE Tank entering Geilenkirchen; Second World WarPhotograph showing a Churchill AVRE (Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers) tank entering the town of Geilenkirchen in late 1944
Captain Jerninghams Anchor-Firing Mortar, 1846Engraving of an experiment to test Captain Jerninghams idea to assist the launching of lifeboats. The launching of lifeboats from a beach into heavy breaking surf was often dangerous
Crimea Mortar BatteryBritish mortar battery on the heights before Sebastopol, during the Crimea War
Bombarding SebastopolA mortar battery bombards the besieged city
Mortar Battery CartoonOfficer - So you wish to transfer to a Trench Mortar Battery? What are your qualifications? Private - In Civilian life I was a Bricklayers Labourer
Sledge-Mounted MortarA sledge-mounted mortar used by Scandinavians
Bulldog CannonThe " Bulldog Cannon", found by the British Army in the Fort of Kurnaul, India, in 1838, but originally forged centuries earlier in China. The mouth is the guns muzzle
Woman Graduate C1890A young woman poses in mortar board and gown for her graduation photograph amid the clutter of a victorian photographic studio
French in NetherlandsInvading the Low Countries, the French bombard WILLEMSTAD from their artillery battery on Hel-plaats : a fine view of cannon and a mortar in action
Firing French MortarFrench artillerymen firing a mortar
French 220 MortarA French 220 mortar requires 6 kilos of powder to discharge a projectile weighing 98 kilos
Soviet Mortar CrewA Soviet Mortar Crew rest after all-night fighting
German Mortar TeamGerman mortar crew in action
Fighting Hail BeaujolaisIn the Beaujolais area Guinands mortar bombards clouds which threaten the vineyards, causing them to release the rain before it freezes into hail
Saving Vines BeaujolaisFrench wine-growers in the Beaujolais area bombard menacing clouds with a mortar, to cause premature precipitation of rain before it freezes into hail
Justus Liebig / 3 of 6JUSTUS VON LIEBIG German scientist is given his own laboratory at Giessen University
Hubert Murray Burge / VfHUBERT MURRAY BURGE Headmaster of Winchester and Bishop
Edward Terry / Players 03EDWARD TERRY English actor and manager (not related to the famous Terry family) seen here in the role of a schoolmaster in My Pretty Maid
James Challis / CdvJAMES CHALLIS English clergyman and astronomer
CANNON, 1520French cannon and mortar of the period of Francois I
Water Babies / Fairies / TomThe inhabitants of Polupragmosyne show Tom the way, though they all point in different directions
Scholars at a LectureScholars at a lecture display various symptoms of boredom
Mortar-Board / SchoolboyVictorian schoolboy wearing mortarboard
Newcastle Univ StudentA graduate of Newcastle University poses for his photograph in academic dress
Languages at WestminsterThe modern languages classroon at Westminster, with the boys learning from an early wax cyclinder gramophone
Lady Graduate 1885A lady graduate in her study at London University
Surrender of MontefrioMoorish chiefs surrender to Ferdinand and Isabella at Montefrio
English School MasterAn English schoolmaster