Overseas Collection

Badges of Scottish Regiments - World War One - Remember our Gallant Wounded Overseas and at the Dardanelles. Date: circa 1917

Falklands War - 1982
Directorate of Overseas Surveys map of the Falklands Islands, 1983 (c). One of four maps of the Falkland Islands, 1982 (c)-1984 (c)

Poster advertising Australia via Qantas Airlines
Poster advertising Australia via Qantas, Australias overseas airline

St. Georges, Bermuda - Union Flag flies proudly
St. George s, Bermuda - Union Flag flies proudly Date: circa 1920s

WW2 - NaFI presents ENSA Production at Alexandria, Egypt
WW2 - A playbill for a production of The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde produced by N.A.A.F.I (Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes)

Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts - British Military
Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts (18321914), Anglo-Irish soldier and one of the most successful commanders of the Victorian era - notable for his actions during the African wars

Bristol B-175 Britannia 102
A Boac Bristol B-175 Britannia 102 Parked (Msn 12904) Date: 1950s

Tank Corps Recruitment
A recruitment poster for the British Tanks Corps Armoured Car Companies - Become a Motor Enginerr and see the World!

Empire Day - May 24th, 1909
One King. One Fleet. One Flag. One Empire. Celebration postcard to commemorate Empire Day - May 24th, 1909. Members of the British Empire celebrate beneath a statue of Queen Victoria above a

Elbow Beach Surf Club, Bermuda Date: late 1950s

Consolidated B-24A LB-30B Liberator III / 3
Boac Consolidated B-24 Lb-30 Liberator Freighter Parked Exal592 Date: 1940s

Bristol
Members of the Bristol contingent. The Corps of Canadian Fire-fighters (also known as the Volunteer Corps of Canadian Fire-fighters and simply as CCCF)

Graca & Cos stall - Hong Kong - important printers and vendors of postcards, stamps and stationary. Date: circa 1905

Poster, BOAC takes good care of you
Poster, BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation) takes good care of you. 20th century

Ariel Sands, Beach Club, Bermuda Date: late 1950s

British merchant ship war losses by G. H. Davis
British merchant ship war losses during the Second World War: the toll of oversea supplies. Britain lost through enemy action 2570 ships and over 11 million tonnage

The Landing, Plymouth, Montserrat, British West Indies
The Landing at Plymouth, Montserrat, British West Indies. In July 1995, Montserrats Soufriere Hills volcano, dormant for centuries

Portsmouth (exact location unknown). The Corps of Canadian Fire-fighters (also known as the Volunteer Corps of Canadian Fire-fighters and simply as CCCF)

Advert for the Ministry of Food 1940
The weeks food facts No. 6. If you eat more than you need, you are wasting food as surely as if you had thrown it away. So eat what you need, but no more. Buy wisely and cater strictly

British and French Soldiers - Salonica
A scruffy young turkish paperboy selling the Paris Balkan Newspaper and the French Echo to British and French soldiers during World War One in Salonica as two veiled ladies and a Greek priest

Sir John Fastolf
SIR JOHN FASTOLF (or Fastolfe) English soldier generally involved in overseas wars. (He is NOT the original of Shakespeares Falstaff)

British Overseas Airways Corporation Lockheed 18-08 Lodestar G-AGDD Loch Losna (msn 2087, ex NX34901, to Royal Norwegian Air Force July 1945 as 2087)

The Rock of Gibraltar from the beach. Date: 1935

Royal Overseas League HQ - Courtyard and Entrance, London. Date: circa 1910s

A CCF crew
Crewing a British fire appliance somewhere outside Portsmouth. The Corps of Canadian Fire-fighters (also known as the Volunteer Corps of Canadian Fire-fighters and simply as CCCF)

Avro 685 York-shown is the first civilianised York delivered to British Overseas Airways Corporation in February 1944

The White Swan Tea House, Hamilton, Bermuda. Date: circa 1910s

Fight for her. Come with the Irish Canadian Rangers Overseas Battalion, Montreal. Poster showing a woman seated, in profile, taken from Whistlers Arrangement in Grey and Black

From overseas to you - Hear her story at Chautauqua. Poster showing a young woman in a Red Cross uniform. Date 1919

Canadians in Southampton
The Southampton contingent of the CCCF who were billeted near the docks at the Apollo Hotel. The Corps of Canadian Fire-fighters

Bermuda - Palms at Paget, Grasmere view and Oleanders
Bermuda - with three inset leaf-shaped images depicting: Royals Palms at Paget, the view from Grasmere and Oleanders in bloom. Date: 1912

The Flag of Bermuda Date: circa 1930s

Cape Verde (19th c. ). Portuguese rule. Litography
Cape Verde (19th c.). Portuguese rule. Litography. PORTUGAL. Lisbon. Overseas Historical Archive

Sir James Brooke / Census
SIR JAMES BROOKE Governor of Labuan, later Rajah of Sarawak, at a time when the overseas population of the British Empire numbered 139 million

RAF Fayid, Egypt - The Shopping Centre
The Shopping Centre at RAF Fayid (LG-211), a former military airfield in Egypt, approximately 14 miles south of Ismailia (Al Isma`iliyah) and 72 miles northeast of Cairo. Date: circa 1920s

Bairro do Macuti - Beira - Mozambique
Bairro do Macuti (Beach) - Beira - Mozambique. Beira was originally developed by the Portuguese Mozambique Company in the 19th century

Main Street, Gibraltar. British sailors stationed at Gibraltar using some of their spare time to do a spot of shopping. Date: circa late 1940s

Malta - Mosta Church and Maltese Island Tour Buses
The Church of the Assumption of Our Lady, commonly known as the Rotunda of Mosta or Rotunda of St Marija Assunta (sometimes shortened to as The Mosta Dome) - a Roman Catholic church in Mosta, Malta

Vickers Super VC-10
Artists-Impression of a Future Super Vc-10 Airliner Concept - 10 of Which Were Ordered by Boac in June 1960 Date: 1960

Bristol B-175 Britannia 300
The First Boac Bristol Britannia Series 300 Date: 1950s

Lockheed L-749 Constellation
A Boac Lockheed L-749 Constellation Landing Date: 1950s

Regimental Sports - 27th Inniskillings, Tianjin, China
Regimental Sports - 27th Inniskillings, Tianjin, Northern China - 13th May 1911. Western nations were permitted to garrison the area to ensure open access to Beijing

The Rock Hotel, Gibraltar - built by John Chrichton-Stuart, the Marquis of Bute in 1932 Date: circa late 1930s

WW2, The Kitchen Front
An illustration which shows a wartime girl thinking up some recipes with her pencil placed to her lips, she must be careful because ingredients would be rationed and brought from overseas during WW2

Blue Mountain Peak, Jamaica, West Indies
Blue Mountain Peak (the island's highest point), Jamaica, West Indies. The famed Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee is grown in the region

Rio Cobre River, Jamaica, West Indies
Rio Cobre, Jamaica, West Indies. The river flows to meet the Caribbean Sea in the north west corner of Kingston Harbour. Date: circa 1920s

Doctor's Cave, Montego Bay, Jamaica. Date: circa 1920s

RT. Hon. Sir Geo. H. Perley, K. C. M. G
A portrait painting of Sir George Halsey Perley, a Canadian politician and diplomat who was High Commissioner of Canada and filled the post of overseas minister of militia until the appointment of

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