Operation Collection (page 2)

Salvage operation in Victoria Park Road, East London, WW2
Salvage operation in Victoria Park Road, East London, following a flying bomb explosion, 19 June 1944. Date: 1944

Cartoon - WWI - Haircut
A cartoon making light of the perils of life on the front line and the frequent need for surgical intervention to operate on soldiers

The Rescue of Zaidi; H. M. Stanleys Anglo-American Expeditio
Engraving showing the rescue of Zaidi from the top of a waterfall during Sir Henry Morton Stanleys Anglo-American expedition of 1874-1877

An operation screened live in a medical lecture
An invention by Mr Herbert A. Silver enabling medical students to watch surgery from the lecture theatre. A circle of electric lamps is suspended over the operating table while the image is projected

German Tanks in Russia
A German tank, accompanied by infantry, advances across the Russian steppes

Maginot Line
On ne passe pas ! (They shall not pass !) This magazine cover expresses the touching faith of the French in their western defence, the MAGINOT LINE Date: 1940

Tattooist, Samoa
TATTOOING IN SAMOA A Matai (= tattooer) works on a young man : he does about 40 cm2 in an hours session, continued at intervals till the operation is completed

Rail / Break of Gauge
The break of gauge at Gloucester: the trans-shipment of goods from the broad gauge to the narrow gauge carriages

Operation / Lister Spray
Operation with Listers antiseptic spray in use

Fouberts surgical operation to remove a bladder stone: Mr Fouberts scalpel 1, flexible canula 2 and mark on the perineum for the external incision

Headstone Major Gus March-Phillips, St Laurent sur Mer
The grave is in the Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery. March-Phillips commanded a Small Scale Landing Force that came ashore here in a Commando operation named Aquatint on 12 September 1942

Examples of 18th century bandages, tongs and sutures
Examples of 18th century bandages 1, bec-de-corbin tongs 2, bec-de-canne tongs 4, bullet-remover tongs 4, and various sutures 5-11

18th century surgical equipment
Bone saw 1, pincers 2, 3, scissors 4, lead mallet 5 and hook for childbirth 6. Copperplate engraving by Robert Benard from Denis Diderots Encyclopedia, Pellet, Geneva, 1779

Normandy landings WW2: Utah Beach
Part of the 4th Infantry Division moves inland from Utah Beach, 1944. 6th June 1944

RADIO / WW2 GERMAN ARMY
German army with field radio in operation Date: 1940

United States Navy Curtiss SC-1 Seahawk
Curtiss SC-1 Seahawk, a ship-board float-plane scout, for operation from capital ships with catapults, or seaplane tenders with launch and recovery apparatus. Date: circa 1945

Black Buck bomb crater
One of the Operation Black Buck1 1, 000 lber bomb craters, in the bondu surrounding Stanley Airport in the Falkland Islands. Date: 1984

Major John Howard DSO, 1912-1999, who led a glider-borne assault on two bridges between Benouville and Ranville in Normandy, France, codenamed Operation Deadstick

St Bartholomews Hospital, London - An operating Theatre
St Bartholomews Hospital, Farringdon, City of London - An operating Theatre. Date: circa 1907

Bren. 303 in Mk I light machine gun, 1942; original round dial sight. One of the finest light machine guns ever produced, the Bren was the centre of a platoons firepower in all theatres of operation

HMS Argus 149
Royal Navy - HMS Argus 149, an aircraft carrier, seen in March 1939. Argus served from 1918 to 1944. After commissioning, the ship was involved for several years in the development of the optimum

MV Royal Daffodil, Eagle Steamer
M.V Royal Daffodil Eagle Steamer, WW2 service including Operation Dynamo, Dunkirk evacuation

Dr Auguste Nelaton, French surgeon
Dr Auguste Nelaton (1807-1873), French surgeon, famous for a successful operation on Garibaldi in 1862. In 1866 he was appointed surgeon to Napoleon III. Date: circa 1860s

surgical operation, Paris Date: 1925

McDonnell Douglas F-15A-6-MC Eagle 72-0119 Streak Eagle (MSN 0019/A017)on display at the National Museum of the USAF, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

Rockwell B-1B Lancer 86-0114
United States Air Force (USAF) - Rockwell B-1B Lancer 86-0114 Wolfhound (msn 74), of the 319th Bombardment Wing, at RAF Mildenhall, on 27 May 1989. (This aircraft crashed 30 mi N)

Boeing RB-52B-10-BO Stratofortress 52-0013 (msn 16503), at the National Atomic Museum, Kirtland AFB, New Mexico. (52-0013 was operated by the 4925th Test Group, Kirtland AFB, NM during the ?)

Fairchild UC-123K Provider 55-4577
United States Air Force Reserve - Fairchild UC-123K-16-FA Provider 55-4577 (msn 20238), at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base for storage and disposal, circa 1985

Divers at work on the seabed Date: 1880

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Evacuation of 4000 Basque children to England (May 1937), operation made with the cooperation of the British Catholic Church

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This photograph was taken the night before King Edward VII was taken seriously ill. He had to undergo an operation causing his coronation to be postponed until August. Date: 1902

Battle at the Schilberg Cross-roads; Second World War, 1945
Sketch of a battle between British and German troops for control of the cross-roads in the town of Schilberg, Netherlands, 1945

TAKING UP THE REINS
A gentleman takes up the reins of his four-horse team - a more delicate operation than turning your key in your car's starter... Date: 1872

COLLISION IN A TUNNEL
Three die when the Bale express collides with a local train in the Pommeraie tunnel, failing to see lights warning that a single-track system is in operation Date: 9 May 1898

Comic postcard, Doctor and nurse, operating theatre Date: 20th century

Militray Hospital at Netley, Hampshire
Operating Theatre at R. V. (Royal Victoria) Hospital at Netley. A large military hospital near Southampton, Hampshire. Date: 1912

Comic postcard, Women in street with boy Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Women see man leaving Gents Date: 20th century

Sir Johann VI Hans von Kronberg and his wife Katharina
Sir Johann VI Hans von Kronberg (died 1488) and his wife Katharina von Reifenberg. From the grave effigy in St. Johann Church, Kronberg im Taunus, Hessen Germany

An African tracker, wet from the lake, carrying a grysbok to safety in Southern Rhodesia, during Operation Noah, a large scale operation to rescue animals trapped in trees

Horsa Glider Memorial, Wolfheze, Holland
Wolfheze is a small village about 10km to the west of Arnhem beside which the Operation Market Garden 17 September 1944 Landing Zones Z ands (gliders) and Drop Zone X (parachutists) were located

Veldhoven Liberation Memorial and HCR Memorial
The Operation Market Garden plan required that the Guards Armoured Division, which was leading the ground advance north, should advance at maximum speed in order to cross the river bridges as soon as

Private Memorial, Old Lonsdale Church, Oosterbeek
The final fighting north of the River Rhine during the last stages of Operation Market Garden was in and around the small Arnhem suburb of Oosterbeek

Sherman tank Memorial, Leopoldsburg Railway Station
Leopoldsburg is in Belgium and it was directly behind the start line of Operation Market Garden. Here was a huge engineer dump built up to support the XXX Corps ground forces whose job it was to

The Royal Engineers Evacuation Memorial
In the final days of Operation Market Garden, the beleagured British forces left north of the Rhine at Oosterbeek, west of Arnhem

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