Para Collection

German parachute troops, WW2
Germanys Newest Weapon - The Parachute Troops. The New Method of Warfare in the Attack on the Low Countries. Date: 1940

Parachute training in a hangar. Date: circa 1960s

RAF parachutists pouring beer while in freefall. Date: 1960s

Sky divers belonging to the RAF Falcons freefall team, taking part in an activity in France, with a large aircraft in the background. Date: 1965

Spanish Civil War. Tres elementos necesarios para crear una nueva Espana (Three required elements to set up a new Spain). Poster from Sindicato de Agentes del Comercio y de la Industria

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The Grave of Surgeon Lipmann Kessel, Oosterbeek
Kessel is buried in the Oosterbeek local cemetery which is opposite the Commonwealth War Graves one. He was the surgeon to 16th Para Field Ambulance who had established themselves in the St Elisabeth

21st Independent Para Coy Memorial, Oosterbeek
The 21st was commanded by Major B. A. B. Boy Wilson who, at the age of 45, was one of the oldest paras in the 1st AB Division

325th Glider, 504th PIR & Polish Para Memorial, Holland
The dramatic rusting parachutes, designed by Leo Gerritsen and Henk van Hout, were erected on 17 September 1985. They commemorate the fact that these fields, designated landing area O

9th Para & 1st Canadian Para Bns Memorial, Varaville
This grey marble Memorial was erected on the 50th Anniversary of D-Day. At the bottom is a bronze plaque presented to Varaville by Canadian 1st Para veterans and unveiled in June 1997

British 6th Airborne Memorial, Putot en Auge Normandy
The Memorial Board, which is outside the Mairie, was unveiled on 6 June 2007 by Major Jack Watson MC, of 13th (Lancs) Para Bn

Motherwort, Leonurus cardiaca, and cornflower, Centaurea cyanus. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Para rubber tree or sharinga tree, Hevea brasiliensis. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehlers Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887

Long-crested northern cardinal, Cardinalis cardinalis carneus (Crested cardinal, Loxia cucullata). Cardinal Dominican Comitre from Brasils, about Para, in possession of Marmaduke Tunstall

Para rhatany and Peruvian rhatany, Krameria lappacea (Krameria triandra). Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley

Peruvian rhatany, Krameria lappacea
Peruvian rhatany, Krameria triandra. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse

Spanish lottery game for children, Neuva Loteria De Los Globos (Juego para les ninos.) Num. 57. Made up of 52 small pictograms of various fanciful balloon designs. 1867

Major J. C. A. Roseveare Bridge Memorial, River Dives
Major Roseveare commanded 3rd Para Sqn RE which was charged with blowing up five bridges over the River Dives. In his jeep, in the early hours of D-Day

16th Parachute Brigade training, RAF Abingdon
Soldiers of the 16th Parachute Brigade undergoing training at RAF Abingdon, Oxfordshire. Date: 1962

16th Parachute Brigade training
Two soldiers of the 16th Parachute Brigade undergoing training. Date: 1962

Sky diver practising in a field. Date: circa 1963

Sky diver practising before a show. Date: 1965

Two sky divers preparing for a jump, with an aeroplane in the background. Date: circa 1960s

RAF Falcons freefall team, France
Sky diver belonging to the RAF Falcons freefall team, taking part in an activity in France. Date: 1965

RAF parachutists pouring beer while in freefall. Date: 1960s

View of the River Amazon at Obidos, Para, Brazil
View of a fortress on the River Amazon at Obidos, Para, Brazil. Date: circa 1910s

El Correo de la Moda. Peri󤩣o ilustrado para las
El Correo de la Moda. Period o ilustrado para las mujeres (womens newspaper). Feminine dresses for a costume party. Published in Madrid from 1835-1868. Engraving. SPAIN

Forest giant sketched near Para
Drawing by Alfred Russel Wallace during December 1848

GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de (1746-1828). Se desnuda para siempre. (Undressing himself for ever and ever). Romanticism. Drawing. SPAIN. Madrid. Prado Museum

MEIRELLES DE LIMA, Victor (1832-1903). Estudo para o panorama do Rio, entrada de Bahia. 2 mitad s.XIX. Oil on canvas. BRAZIL. Rio de Janeiro. National Museum of Fine Arts

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Hoy enviad los
" Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). " Hoy enviad los trapos a la tenencia de alcald� ma񡮡 serᮠ ropas de abrigo para nuestros soldados"

Artillery squadron of the Royal Guard. Picture
" Artillery squadron of the Royal Guard. Picture of the work " Memoria para la historia de las tropas de la Casa Real de Espa񡦱 uot; " by Seraf� Maric de Loto (Madrid)

Artillery of the Royal Guard (1824). Picture
" Artillery of the Royal Guard (1824). Picture of the work " Memoria para la historia de las tropas de la Casa Real de Espa񡦱 uot; " by Seraf� Maric de Loto (Madrid)

First Crusade. Council Of
Mahoma reza para que la lluvia d alivio a los musulmanes antes de la batalla de Bade. Copia otomana del s. XVIII de un

GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de (1746-1828). Al Desierto para ser Santo, Amen. Drawing. SPAIN. Madrid. Prado Museum

Gran mano para hurtar sonajas (porque era tr mulo)
GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de (1746-1828). Drawing

De Una Muleta
GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de (1746-1828). Torero prepar ndose para matar utilizando un sombrero en vez

French recruitment poster for a parachute regiment
A French recruitment poster for a parachute regiment, the Infanterie de l Air. Date: 20th century

Girls entertaining American GI in London bar
Two glamorous girls entertain an American GI, whose cap badge indicates he is an Infantry Paratrooper in an unidentified bar in London during World War II, while a third waits table

Brazil - Belem - Baptista Campos Park
The Castelinho (Castle) folly at the Praca Batista Campos (Batista Campos Square) in Belem, Para, Brazil Date: 1906

Gawler, South Australia
Willaston Bridge, North Para River, Gawler, South Australia

British service personnel on D-Day
A group painting of the British armed forces involved in Operation Overlord - the D-Day invasion of France - on June 6th 1944

95th Para
British paratrouper from 95th Para - involved in the first stage of Operation Overlord, the D-day invasion of France on June 6th 1944

Collecting Latex / Brazil
Collecting latex in Para, Brazil. The tree is tapped and the sap is collected

Advert / Para Liqueur 1909
Para Liqueur - drink of the gods!

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