November Collection (page 22)

SIGNING ARMISTICE 1918
Admiral Sir David Beatty reads the terms of the Armistice to German delegates aboard HMS Queen Elizabeth at Rosyth Date: 16 November 1918

HOSPITAL CERTIFICATE
Certifying that a Mr Thomas ?---drew hath attended the practice of physic at the hospital for 18 months. Signed by 3 doctors. Surmounted by the hospitals emblem. Date: 25 November 1843

BRITISH IN CRETE
Crete : British troops evacuating the island are harassed by Italian air attacks Date: November 1940

ITALIANS TAKE BERBERA
North Africa : the Italians triumphantly raise their tricolour as a sign of their occupation of Fort Berbera Date: November 1940

Cartoon, The Popular Guy (Lloyd George): I see no reason why government treason should ever be forgot! Date: 1919

BALAKLAVA, GALE
Steamships and sailing vessels caught in a gale off Balaclava Date: 14 November 1854

SERBIAN HEROINE
Sophia Ivanovich volunteers to serve in the Serbian army so long as hostilities against the Turks persist : she is engaged to marry the gentleman behind her Date: November 1912

WWI - bravery of Naik Darwan Sing Negi earns him a Victoria
Naik Darwan Sing Negi, of the 1st Battalion 39th Garhwal Rifles, bravely leads a bayonet charge. He was amongst the first Indians to be awarded a Victoria Cross. Date: 23/24 November 1914

SHOOTING WILD TURKEY
Shooting wild turkey to celebrate Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday in November Date: 1859

VOLTA AT ACAD. SCIENCES
Alessandro Volta presents a paper on his battery to the Academie des Sciences at Paris, in the presence of the First Consul, Napoleon Bonaparte Date: 18 November 1800

OXFORD UNI UNION FAWCETT
Millicent Garret Fawcett speaks at the Oxford Union; the first woman to do so Date: November 1908

Armistice Day celebrations 1918
Jubilant peace celebrations in Piccadilly Circus, London, after the end of World War One. Date: November 1918

SOPHIA TAKES ARMS / SERBIA
19-year old Sophia Iovanovich takes up arms against the Turks, along with her fiance (standing behind her), and fights bravely Date: November 1912

PLUNDERING HOMES
The homes of aristocrats at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, on the outskirts of Paris, are attacked and plundered by revolutionary crowds Date: 13 November 1790

UFOS / SIBERIAN FIREBALL
Crew of the British steamer Siberian, off Cape Race, Newfoundland, see a huge ball of fire rise from the sea, move against the wind, then move away after 5 minutes Date: 12 November 1887

NOVEMBER FOG / CRUIKSHANK
November fog causes havoc on the streets of London Date: 1841

NAPOLEON AT ARCOLA
During the Italian campaign, Napoleon leads his men to victory at the bridge of Arcola Date: 15 November 1796

Eleanor Cobham, Duchess of Gloucester, public penance London
Eleanor Cobham(c.1400-1452), Duchess of Gloucester, accused of practising magic to help her husband Humphrey to the throne, does public penance in the streets of London. Date: 13th November 1441

METEORITE /
A meteor shower seen from a balloon over Northern France by Wilfred de Fonvielle Date: November 1867

King William III lands Torbay
William III lands in England at Torbay. Date: 1688

Charles Stewart Parnell re-elected
Charles Stewart Parnell is re-elected as leader of the Irish Party, in Committee Room 15 at the House of Commons, Central London. Date: 25 November 1890

Sacheverell Cards
Henry Sacheverell (1674-1724) was an English high church Anglican clergyman who achieved nationwide fame in 1709 after preaching an incendiary 5 November sermon denouncing the Whig government

Royal Air Force Captured Messerschmitt Bf 110C-5 AX772 (Luftwaffe 5F-CM of $(F)/14) (W.Nr. 2177) Buit by Gothaer Waggonfabrik AG 5F-CM was based at Cherbourg

Royal Air Force Fairey Swordfish III (Searchlight), fitted with a searchlight under the starboard wing for night attacks and ASV radar between the undercarriage legs. - 12th November, 1943. Date: 1943

Royal Air Force Stinson Model 74 Vigilant IA HL430- 70-49
Royal Air Force Stinson Model 74 Vigilant IA HL430 (known as O-49 by the USaF). The RAF was scheduled to receive over a hundred Vigilants but only fourteen were delivered

British Aircraft Corporation One-Eleven 201AC G-ASJD City of Edinburgh of Caledonian/BUA, soon after their merger in November 1970, becoming British Caledonian from September 1971. Date: circa 1971

Royal Air Force Hunting P. 84 Jet Provost T. 4 XP551
Royal Air Force Hunting P.84 Jet Provost XP551 T4, delivered on 7 December 1961 to the Central flying School at RAF Little Rissington and scrapped on 22 November 1968 at No.27 MU Shawbury

Miles M. 38 Messenger 2A G-AJVC
Miles M.38 Messenger 2A G-AJVC (msn 6371). After several UK based operators, G-AJVC was taken on by Tyrolean Travel Ltd. flying mostly in Germany

Short S. 16-1 Scion 1 G-ACUW
Short S.16/1 Scion 1 G-ACUW (msn S.775) at Rochester airport. The third production Scion 1, G-ACUW can be seen with the low set engine nacelles and early style windscreen

Royal Air Force - Hunting Jet Provost T. 4 XP680
Royal Air Force Hunting Jet Provost T.4 XP680 (msn PAC/W/18304) of The Macaws aerobatic team from the College of Air Warfare, based at Royal Air Force Manby

Curtiss C-46F-1-CU Commando N4877V (msn 22442) of Capitol Airways. 44-78619, disposed of to the Foreign Liquidation commission on 20 August 1947 and bought by Claire L

Convair C-131B Samaritan O-53-7793 (MSN 245) assigned to NASA Langley Research Center, Langley Field, VA 1974 designated NC-131B prior to re-engining as NC-131H

North American Harvard II N9789Z, ex RCAF AJ731, Owned by Sandy Crist, written off November 1983, race number 2. Date: 1960s

Chrislea CH. 3 Super Ace series 2 G-AKVF
Chrislea CH.3 Super Ace series 2 G-AKVF (msn114), first registered 8 March 1948. Sold in Pakistan as AP-ADT. Returned to UK register in November 1959. Date: 1960s

Avro Lincoln B Mk. 2 G-APRJ
Avro Lincoln B Mk.2 G-APRJ at Southend Airport. Ex Royal Air Force RF342, then to D. Napier & Sons Ltd. at Luton airport, with B-class registration G-29-1

Britten Norman BN-2A Islander G-AXRN (msn129) of Humber Airways Limited at Brough. G-AXRN was first flown on 10 November 1969 as G-51-52

Armstrong-Whitworth AW. 52 TS363
Armstrong-Whitworth AW.52 TS363, the Rolls-Royce Nene-powered example. First flown on 13 November 1947, TS363 crashed without loss of life on 30 May 1949

Percival Prince G-ALWH
Percival P.50 Prince series 2A G-ALWH, of Decca Navigator Limited as a demonstrator for their navigation equipment. Registered to Decca on 17 July 1961 and exported to the USA on 15 November 1976

English electric Canberra B I. 8 WT330
English electric Canberra B(I).8 WT330 (c-n 71459) delivered 4 February 1956, written off 10 November 1965, remains to RAF Akrotiri dump. Date: circa 1956

Seventeen students on the seventh Test Pilots? Course a?
Seventeen students on the seventh Test Pilots? Course at the Empire Test Pilots? School, Farnborough, visited the factories of A.V. Roe & Co Ltd at Woodford and Chadderton on 2 November 1948

Westland Whirlwind evacuates a wounded Egyptian - Port Said
A Westland Whirlwind evacuates a wounded Egyptian from Port Said on 8 November 1956. Date: 1956

The Secretary of State for War, The Right Hon John Prof?
The Secretary of State for War, The Right Hon John Profumo, OBE, MC, visited the Guided Weapons Division of English Electric Aviation Ltd, Stevenage, on Monday, 7 November 1960

Dr Henri-Marie-Jean-Gustav Coanda (7 June 1886 to 25 November 1972), circa 1971. Date: circa 1971

Bristol Bloodhound surface-to-air missile, North Coates
Bristol Bloodhound surface-to-air guided missile at Britain?s first guided weapons air defence station at North Coates, Lincolnshire. November 1958. Date: 1958

King George V and the Khedive of Egypt
King George V (1865-1936) and the Abbas II Helmy Bey, Khedive of Egypt (1874-1944) - pictured on board the HMS Medina at Port Said on 21st November 1911

Duke of York at the reconstructed G. P. O. at Mount Pleasant
Albert, Duke of York (later King George VI 1895-1952) at the reconstructed G.P.O. at sorting Office at Mount Pleasant, London - November 1934

Duchess of York and Sir James Barrie - Theatre Royal
Duchess of York and Sir James Barrie at a performance of " What Every Woman Knows" at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London in aid of the funds of TocH

Queen Elizabeth II visiting Geevor Tin Mine, Cornwall
Queen Elizabeth II visiting the Geevor Tin Mine at Pendeen, Cornwall, to see the Victory Shaft development, 28 November 1980. Date: 1980

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