Nissen Collection

WW2 - Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps erect Nissen Huts
WW2 - Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps in France - erecting Nissen Huts in preparation for the arrival of the main body of the army - the caption notes that many men in the pioneer Corps fought in

WW1 - Pekin Camp, Camp for Chinese Labour Corps, Mont Kemmel
WW1 - Pekin Camp - Camp for The Chinese Labour Corps on the Western Front. The camp was near The Kemmelberg (also known as Kemmel Hill or Mont Kemmel), Heuvelland, West Flanders, Belgium

An action at Bucquoy, Western Front 1918
The Great Battle on the Western Front: open warfare - an action at Bucquoy, a village on the Arras-Albert road. Stand by British infantry at Bucquoy

Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Norman Nissen, Nissen hut inventor
Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Norman Nissen(1873-1930), mining engineer, and inventor of the Nissen hut, and the Nissen stamp for crushing gold ores

Stockheath Boys Club
The Nissen huts which form the Stockheath Boys Club and Youth Centre, near Havant, Hampshire, England. Date: 1950s

Scotland, Shetland Isles - Castle at Scalloway
The ruins of the Castle at Scalloway, Scotland - Shetland Isles

The Padre and his old church
A British Artillery chaplain during the Somme advance of 1918 surveys the ruins of a Nissen hut which once served as a makeshift church in 1916

Conversazione of educational exhibition, St. Martins Hall
Prince Albert stopping by the Norway stand at the Educational Exhibition, held at St. Martins Hall in July 1854. 1854

Norwegian actress Greta Nissen
The famous Norwegian actress Greta Nissen, from the Columbia film The Circus Queen Murder (1933) - appearing in the stage show Why Not Tonight

Scene inside a British Restaurant, one of a number of communal restaurants during the Second World War providing a cooked meal, with dessert and a cup of tea, for around the cost of 1s.2d

Sile, Istanbul, Turkey - Military Compound (2/2). Date: 1920

Temporary Housing at Geluwe, Belgium - after WW1
Temporary accomodation for the occupants of Geluwe, a town in the West Flanders province of Belgium (just north-west of Menen/Menin) after the devastation of WW1. circa 1919

Cover of Dance Magazine October 1926
Featuring Greta Nissen Date: 1926

Nissen Huts, Fawley, Hampshire
Nissen Huts, Fawley, Southampton, near Hythe, Hampshire, England. Date: 1940s

Weatherproof winter field-barracks: snowy Nissen huts, 1917
Providing efficient shelter against snow and icy winds: Nissen huts at the British front, 1917. Date: 1917

Erecting a Nissen hut in the snow, 1917
Buildings on the British front: putting up a Nissen hut in the snow, 1917. Devised by Major Peter Norman Nissen of the 29th Company Royal Engineers of the British Army in April 1916

Queen Mary inspects a Nissen hut, 1917
Queen Mary leaving a Nissen hut after inspecting it, somewhere along the lines of communication near the Front during World War One. Note the royal arms fixed to the bonnet of the car. Date: 1917

Soldiers writing, reading and relaxing in a Nissen hut. 313870 Gunner Vivian John Cummings, Born 31.07.1875, 3Rd Canadian Division, Canadian Expeditionary Force

British Nissen hut camp, Western Front, WW1
Scene at a British Nissen hut camp in the snow on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Building Nissen huts for troops, Western Front, WW1
British men building Nissen huts for use by troops, on the Western Front during World War One. The semi-cylindrical Nissen hut was invented by Major Peter Norman Nissen in 1916. Date: circa 1916

Row of Nissen huts at a rest camp, Western Front, WW1
A row of Nissen huts at a rest camp on the Western Front during World War One. The semi-cylindrical Nissen hut was invented by Major Peter Norman Nissen in 1916. Date: circa 1916

Greta Nissen (1906 1988), Norwegian-born American film and stage actress. Performing in Globe Theatre, New York, in Ziegfeld, as Mademoiselle Bluebeard. Date: 1926

Georg Nikolaus Nissen
GEORG NIKOLAUS NISSEN who married Mozarts widow Konstanze in 1809 and collected the materials for the first biography of her husband. Date: 1761 - 1826

Jolly lady and her bouncy pet dog
A jolly lady and her bouncy pet dog having some laughs and quite a few japes outside what appears to be a temporary military building (a Nissen hut, barracks or mess hall)

British Prisoners - Dardanelles - WW1
British Prisoners captured by Turkish forces during the Dardanelles Campaign. A group of officers and privates seated on an open area in front of a group of Nissen huts

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