Ordnance Collection (page 2)

Bomb Disposal School, Bramley, Hampshire, also known as the Army School of Ammunition, run by the Royal Army Ordnance Corps

Captured ordnance. Netherlands and Southeast Asia. 17th-19th
Captured ordnance. Netherlands, 1667 and Southeast Asia, c. 1750-1850. Bronze, cane and bamboo. Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam. Holland

Ordnance Column
A colossal column built from French ordnance with wheeled cannon decorating each tier Date: circa 1815

Civil War relics, Fort Monroe, Hampton, Virginia, USA
Civil War relics at Fort Monroe, Hampton, Virginia, USA. Date: circa 1905

Group photo, RAOC Mustapha football team, Egypt, WW1
Group photo, RAOC (Royal Army Ordnance Corps) Mustapha Barracks football team, Alexandria, Egypt. Date: 1918-1919

NFS recruiting van at Olympia
A National Fire Service recruiting van at Olympia, West London, 14 February 1946, possibly aiming to recruit soldiers returning from the war and visiting to the RAOC (Royal Army Ordnance Corps)

WWI Army rattle with Broad Arrow Ordnance Stamp
First World War Army rattle with Broad Arrow Ordnance Stamp, dated 1918. Firearms & Equipment

Major-General Sir John Steevens by Percival Anderson
Major-General Sir John Steevens, KCB, KCMG (1855-1925), British Army Director of Equipment and Ordnance Stores during the First World War

Dr Osbert G. S. Crawford
Dr Osbert Guy Stanhope Crawford, eminent archaeologist, appointed in 1920 to the position of Archaeology Officer of the Ordnance Survey in Southampton, a position he held until 1946

King George VI visits a Royal Ordnance factory, WWII
King George VI being given a tour of inspection of a Royal Ordnance factory and seeing at first-hand the immense effort being put in to produce arms, in this case anti-aircraft and anti-tank guns

NFS (London Region) water relay exercise, WW2
The Blitz had shown the vital importance of securing a good water supply and the dire consequences when it failed. NFS London firefighters practised large scale exercises securing a water supply

Learn and earn Theres a trade and an education for young men in the Ordnance Department U-S-A. Poster showing a mechanic wearing goggles, welding a part of a tank. Date 1919

Landing place, Ordnance Wharf, Balaklava, Genoese Castle. View of landing place and people working at ordnance wharf, Balaklava harbor, with ships, buildings, and Genoese Castle in background

The Supply Council, Second World War, 1939
The first meeting of the Supply Council, set up on 21 September 1939. When the ministry was set up under the Ministry of Supply Act 1939 it became responsible for the administration of the Royal

Peace Illuminations in Pall Mall at end of Crimean War
Fireworks and illuminations cheered the populace on the cessation of hostilities in the Crimean War. In this engraving the Ordnance Office, Pall Mall

The Great offensive: The modern Lord of battle
A french 400mm, or (approximately 16 inch) shell fired by the giant ordnance now being employed by Allies in the Great Offensive on the Western Front, being placed in a gun by three men and a crane

Ordnance Depot - Basra, Iraq, WWI
The Ordnance Depot on the banks of the Shatt al-Arab Waterway (which leads out to the Persian Gulf) at Basra, Iraq - WWI Date: circa 1917

British gun repair, ordnance workshop, WW1
A British heavy gun in for repair at the gun hospital, an ordnance workshop in Flanders during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

British 15 inch Howitzer used on Western Front, WW1
The first of twelve 15 inch Breech Loading Siege Howitzers constructed from the design of Admiral Bacon, a Director of the Coventry Ordnance Works

Howitzer beyond repair, Calais, France, WW1
A 4.5 inch Howitzer beyond repair at the Ordnance Depot, Calais, France, during the First World War. Date: 19 April 1917

Ordnance at Salt River Works, South Africa, WW1
Interior of a workshop at the Salt River Works, near Cape Town, South Africa, where 4.7 inch (120 mm calibre) long-range guns and their carriages were built and assembled during the First World War

Captured Ottoman Turkish Shells, Baghdad Iraq - WWI era. Date: circa 1916

Private of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps in Full Dress. Wearing 2 stripes for good conduct and long service and inverted chevrons. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Map Cover / Snowdon
Cover design of an Ordnance Survey Map of Snowdon and District

Mortar pile 1916
Members 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

Ordnance Survey Observatory on St. Pauls Cathedral, London
Engraving showing the observatory built on the dome of St. Pauls Cathedral by the Ordnance Survey, for their charting of London and the environs in 1848

Ordnance Survey Observatory, London, 1848
Engraving showing the interior of the observatory built on the dome of St. Pauls Cathedral by the Ordnance Survey, for their charting of London and the environs in 1848

The Handing Over Ceremony at Ordnance Wharf, Balaklava, 1856
Double page landscape engraving of Balklava at the handing over of power from the Allies to the Russians, 1856. Troops of every kind, including sailors, legionaries, Russian cavalrymen and civilians

British 10-ton Bomb on the production line; Second World War
Photograph showing a 10-ton bomb being moved along the production line at an ordnance factory in Britain, 1945. This was one of the largest types of high explosive bombs dropped by the Royal Air

Compass on a Map
A compass with a scale ruler, used as an aid to map reading

Map Cover / Cairngorms
Cover design of an Ordnance Survey Map of the Cairngorms

Ordnance Survey Map
The attractive cover design for the Ordnance Surveys One- inch-to-the-mile series

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