Officers Collection (#39)

Met Police stranger danger education for children
PC Doug Curwen of the Metropolitan Police supervising stranger danger education for children. A strange man brandishes a sweeping brush at two children, who don t seem to be at all frightened of him

Metropolitan Police officers fitted with uniforms
Some newly recruited Metropolitan Police officers being fitted with their uniforms and helmets at a police clothing store in Lambeth Road, south east London

Metropolitan Police officer and Guards Band, London
A Metropolitan Police officer on horseback, with a band of Guards playing and marching behind him, with Buckingham Palace in the background. Date: circa 1960s

Metropolitan Police officers on horseback
A group of eleven Metropolitan Police officers on horseback, undergoing training in a large indoor space. Date: 20th century

Metropolitan Police officer in school playground
A Metropolitan Police officer chats with girls and boys in a school playground. Date: circa 1980s

Metropolitan Police officer with young son
A Metropolitan Police officer, PC James Newman, with two medals on his jacket, posing for his photograph with his son Charles (b 1898), in an outdoor setting. Date: circa 1903

Metropolitan Police K Division orchestral band

Metropolitan Police officer and his Alsatian dog
A Metropolitan Police officer walking along a street with his Alsatian dog. Date: circa 1960s

Metropolitan Police breathalyser equipment
Two Metropolitan Police officers with a piece of equipment called an Intoximeter 3000 at New Scotland Yard, London. One officer is blowing into a tube

Police officers outside a barbers shop
A group of perfectly turned-out police officers line up outside a barbers shop in London. Date: late 19th century

Two police officers patrol Shepherds Market, London
An atmospheric scene showing two police officers standing at a street corner on Shepherds Market in London. Date: 1950s

Eight-sleeper bunk in Stalag XXI D
Sketch showing life of British prisoners of war in a German camp during World War Two. The sketch was made in Stalag XXI D in Posen, Poland

German soldiers captured, Monastir, WW1
French officers interrogating German soldiers captured during the Battle of Monastir (now Bitola), Macedonia, during the First World War

Panama Police Date: circa 1910s

Blacksmiths Shop - North Vietnam
Two Colonial French officers have their Vietnamese ponies re-shod at a Tonkin (Dap Cau)French Military Forge, North Vietnam Date: circa 1910s

Dutch Canal scene with barges and a group of three canal officials (left). A barge operative poles is vessel trough the opened lock gate. Date: 1910s

Cartoon - Joke about Officer - WW1 era
Teacher: " No Pencil again? What would you think of a soldier who went into battle without his gun?" Bobby: " I d think he was an officer." circa 1915

Cartoon - The Officers Mess
The Officers Mess! Four young boys playing at being soldiers act in a very un-soldier-like manner, eating, drinking and generally lounging about! Date: circa 1915

Monument to First Chinese Regiment at Weihai
Monument to the (British) First Chinese Regiment at Weihai in Shandong Province, Peoples Republic of China. Between 1898-1930, the town was a British colony

Arriving for ceasefire talks, Focsani, Romania, WW1
Army officers arriving for ceasefire talks at Focsani, Romania, during the First World War. An armistice between Romania and the Central Powers was signed on 9 December 1917. Date: 1917

His Grace the Duke of Norfolk, K. G
The Hereditary Earl Marshal of England, his Grace the Duke of Norfolk, K. G. Head of the Heralds College, who is responsible for the coronation arrangements

Austrian officers captured by the Russians, WW1
Austrian officers captured by the Russians during the First World War. Date: 26 August 1915

Kitchener recruitment notice, WW1
Lord Kitcheners recruitment notice for ex-non-commissioned officers to re-enlist for the First World War. They were needed urgently to train younger men. October 1914

Group photo, No. 2 Squadron, German Air Force, WW1
A group photo of officers and men of No.2 Squadron, German Air Force, at the start of the First World War. Some of them are wearing Jager shakos (cylindrical military caps)

Christmas morning service at the Tower of London
A Christmas Morning service at St. Peters Church in the Tower of London in 1911, attended by well-dressed ladies, Yeoman of the Guard (beefeaters) and guards officers in bearskin helmets. Date: 1911

Remains of Baron von Richthofens plane, WW1
The remains of the aeroplane of Baron von Richthofen, seen here with allied officers at the aerodrome of No. 3 Squadron of the Australian Flying Corps near Bertangles during the First World War

Allied Troops - The Armenian Church at Chanakale
Allied troops in front of the Armenian Church at Chanakale, Turkey. The Church is now an ethnological Museum and an Arts Studio for students. Date: circa 1920s

Group photo at General Headquarters, Salonika, WW1
Group photo of British Army officers taken at General Headquarters, Salonika (Salonica, Thessaloniki, Greece) during the First World War

French General at review of Russian troops, WW1
A French General, together with Russian officers, at a grand review of Russian troops during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

German officers who defended Zeebrugge, Belgium, WW1
German officers who defended the sea port of Zeebrugge against British attack during the Zeebrugge Raid (23 April 1918), Belgium, First World War

Russian Grenadiers, 1853
Engraving of Russian officers, Grenadiers, shortly before the outbreak of the Crimean war, 1853. Date: 1853

Police Crowd Control
Metropolitan police officers on crowd control duty in London Date: 1911

The Allied Barracks at Scutari, Crimean War, 1854
Illustration showing the Barracks for Allied troops at Scutari, Turkey, 1854. Although the barracks look substantial and well built from the outside, the interior was infested with rats and fleas

A patrol of boy scouts marching to the rendezvous at the commencement of operations. The Scouts field day at Aldershot has developed into a splendidly organised monthly meeting

Bulgarian prisoners in Macedonia, captured during the repulse of Bulgarian attacks into the region during the Second Balkan War, which broke out on 16th June 1913

Montengro - Cetinje - Presentation of flags to the King
Montengro - Cetinje - Presentation of flags to King Nicholas I of Montengro during the First Balkans War Date: 1913

WWI - French Generals
General Castelnau, General Joffre and General Pau - French Generals of World War One. Captioned " Pour La France !.." February 1915

Colonial Troops 1930S
Native Libyan troops in Tripoli, North Africa, receiving directions in the mountains from European, probably Italian, officers. Date: 1930s

Parachute descending, Fournes, France, WW1
A parachute descending at Fournes, northern France, during the First World War, watched by officers (probably German) on the ground. Date: August 1917

Diplomats of the Central Powers
Gathering of foreign diplomats of the Central powers during World War one, indluding Count Lajos Szechenyi de Sarvar-Felsovidek

Group of 56 Squadron R. F. C. Officers
Group of 56 Squadron Royal Flying Corps officers. Back row, left to right: Lieutenants G C Maxwell; Melville; Lehmann; Knight; Barlow; Knaggs

Captured German officers outside concrete bunker, WW1
Captured German officers standing outside their concrete bunker on the Western Front, France, during the First World War. On the left is a Scots soldier standing guard. Date: 1914-1918

British troops playing football at Christmas, Salonika, WW1
British army officers and men of the 26th Division Train playing football on Christmas Day at Salonika (Salonica, Thessaloniki, Greece) during the First World War. Date: 25 December 1915

Royal Military Tournament
The Royal Military Tournament: the Victorian horse-artillery in the driving competition. Date: 1893

A canine courier of the great war, an officer writes a message as the dog waits to deliver it in the trenches. The dogs were three times faster at delivering messages compared to man

Russian Cossack officers, WW1
A group of Russian Cossack officers examining a document during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Freemasonry and the Homeland
Two captive officers, discovered to be Masons, are treated with certain privileges not usually seen in war prisoners. 1890s

Tractor stuck in mud while pulling heavy gun, France, WW1
A tractor made by John Fowler & Co of Leeds, stuck in the mud while pulling a heavy gun on the Western Front in France during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

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