Outpost Collection

British troops in action against Turks near Kirkuk, WW1
British troops of the 7th North Staffordshire Regiment, 39th Infantry Brigade, 13th Division, in action against the Turks at an outpost near Kirkuk, Mesopotamia (now Iraq) during the First World War

A Dance at the Embassy Club in Cairo 1923
A dance at the Embassy Club in Cairo, an outpost of the club in Londons Old Bond Street, catering to high society in Egypt. Some of the revellers in this photograph include Glen Kidston, Mr. R. E

WW2 Entertainment Centre
An illustration which shows a young woman in a blue dress performing for some WW2 soldiers, possibly at an isolated outpost or service centre. Date: circa 1941

Bulgarian Outpost, Serbo-Bulgarian War
5 soldiers sit in a circle eating and drinking at a Bulgarian outpost near Hermanli, Eastern Rumelia, in the Serbo-Bulgarian War

Spanish Foreign Legion Troops near Madrid; Spanish Civil War
Spanish Foreign Legion troops guarding an outpost near Madrid, 1936. When the Spanish Civil War began in 1936, the men of the Foreign Legion fought on the side of the Nationalist Rebels

Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Lys canal bank, WW1
The beginning of the end of the First World War - an outpost of Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders on the bank of the canalised river Lys, at Saint-Floris, northern France, 9 May 1918. 1918

Masthead of The Sketch, October 1914
Masthead showing British Marine watching a distant German Cavalry Patrol on a Belgian Road. And also four adverts for; Ronuk Sanitary Polish, Shoolbreds bedsteads, bedding, and quilts

Map of Pantellaria (Pantelleria) by G. H. Davis
A contour map of Pantellaria (Pantelleria), a volcanic Italian island outpost which surrendered unconditionally on 11 June 1943 -- the first loss of Italian soil to the Allies during the Second World

The Modern Boy front cover - the Khyber Pass
Front cover of The Modern Boy magazine featuring a photograph of roads around the Khyber Pass with a signpost pointing in one direction for cars and another for camels and horses

Fort Western, Augusta, Maine, USA. It was the oldest log fort in America, a British colonial outpost built in 1754. Date: circa 1905

A French Sentry and his War Dog on Duty
An outpost on duty in France with a French war dog, which acted as an extra pair of ears while on sentry duty. Date: 1915

Shutter Detail Fort Ross
Heavy redwood shutters bonded by angled dove-tailed bars without nails. Massive interlocking redwood structure of the blockhouse at Fort Ross built by Russian fur traders between 1812 - 1842

British sailors at a naval outpost (possibly a sanatorium). Date: circa 1910s

Serbian Outpost guards
At a Serbian outpost on a single track railway bridge on the Nish-Salonika Railway, guards stand to arms in the early hours of the morning having heard suspicious sounds

Battalion Ballads from 17th Bat. Highland Light Infantry
Book entitled Battalion Ballads from THE OUTPOST 17th (S) Battalion Highland Light Infantry. This book belonged to 15959 Sergeant W. F. Ritchie. Annotated inside giving details of his time in France

Tommys Letter Bag, Arrival of Post at the Front, WW1
The arrival of mail at a British outpost station in France during the First World War. Date: 1915

Duncon Picquit - Shimla, India
Duncon Picquit (Duncan Picket) - a small hilltop fortification on the outskirts of Shimla (Simla), India. Possibly named after British General in Shimal in the early 19th century - General Duncan

Turkish troops surrendering to British near Kirkuk, WW1
Turkish troops surrendering to a British outpost near Kirkuk, Mesopotamia (now Iraq) during the First World War. Date: May 1918

British artillery at an outpost, northern France, WW1
British artillery with their rifles at an outpost in northern France during the First World War. Date: 1914

Port of Christianborg near Accra, 1873
This former Swedish outpost on the Gold Coast was sold to the British in 1873 when, after decades of an uneasy relationship between the British and the Acing people of central Ghana

Insurgent Outpost
Insurgents at an outpost await an attack from the Russians

Albanian Outpost
During the on-going struggle for independence from the Ottoman rule, Albanian nationalists man an outpost at Jabliak, on the edge of lake Scutari

French Defensive Outpost near Paris; Franco-Prussian War, 18
Engraving showing French Gardes Mobiles, territorial soldiers called up for the war, on patrol between Forts Bicetre and Ivry, near Paris, during the Franco-Prussian War, 1870

Fort Laramie which was a significant trading post in the 19th century and later a military outpost of the US army

Prussians at Versailles
The road from Paris to Versailles is controlled by an outpost manned by the Prussians at the porte Saint- Denis

Carlist Outpost
The Carlists are strongest in Catalonia and northern Spain : scene at a Carlist outpost near Pampeluna

Outpost Recaptured
South Vietnam, Long Thanh: an outpost taken by the Viet Cong is recaptured by South Vietnamese troops

High Rochester Fort
A view of the site of the outpost fort at High Rochester during early excavations in the mid 19th century. The fort guarded the principal Roman road into Scotland

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