Periscopes Collection

Periscopes in Trenches
With shells bursting overhead and trench mortar ready, Seaforth Highlanders watch through a periscope for the Germans

Look-out in 1917
A soldier in a look-out post in a trench using a camouflaged periscope to keep watch on the British Front in France during World War I in 1917

WW1 - Russian Front - Officer using a trench periscope Date: circa 1916

The trench periscope, WW1
Photographs demonstrating the efficacy of the hyposcope (the landsmans periscope) using one here constructed by Mr C. Baker - an optician of High Holborn

Periscopomania by William Heath Robinson
The Special Constable (who has strayed into Highgate Ponds): Good Heavens! Theres a periscope! In fact its his own foot. A humorous comment on the growing fear of German submarines during the First

A Australian trench at the Dardanelles
The periscope in use in an Australian trench at the Dardanelles. Date: 1915

Advert for Watsons Giraffe trench periscope 1915
To save life in the trenches Watsons Giraffe. By its means the soldier can see what is happening above and beyond the trenches without exposing his head. Suppiled for the British Army. Date: 1915

The amphibious periscope 1915
Different ways of using a periscope in The First War World. British soldier looking through periscope in the trenches, an officer using a periscope on board a german submarine. Date: 1915

Royal Wedding 1947 - Using periscopes
A vast crowd use periscopes as their only means of seeing the procession during the royal wedding of 1947 between Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) and Prince Philip

Crowds at the Royal Wedding 1947
Mounted police pictured in the middle of vast crowds of spectators, many of them holding periscopes in order to be able to see something

Trying to view the royal wedding, 1947
Enterprising spectators using makeshift periscopes of mirrors on sticks in an attempt to actually see something along the processional route at the royal wedding between Princess Elizabeth

Coronation. Pikemen arrive with drummers
A few members of the Pikemen and Liverymen of the City of London, preceded by two drummers, approach the Abbey west door. A sea of periscopes are raised in the foregrouond. 1953

Periscope 1915
Lieutenant Kerr MC, who was later killed, using a periscope in a trench on Rue de Bois on the Western Front in France during World War I in February 1915

French soldier in a trench 1915
French soldier in a listening post in the French line on Vimy Ridge using a periscope on the French front during World War I in December 1915. This post was retaken by the Germans in 1916

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