Prepare Gallery

Waste not, want not - prepare for winter

Waste not, want not - prepare for winter. Poster shows a young woman and an older woman standing before a table of fruits and vegetables, and some canned foods. The older woman holds up a jar and gestures toward the table. Additional text: Save perishable foods by preserving now. Date between 1914 and 1918

© Mary Evans / Library of Congress

Soldier serving with The Irish Guards - Basra, Iraq

Digital photograph: A soldier serving with No 1 Company 1st Battalion The Irish Guards looks for possible Iraqi enemy positions as Royal Engineer technicians prepare to cap one of the burning oil wells within the city of Basra.Photographed by WO2 Giles Penfound, Army Media Operations, Bridge Four, Basra, southern Iraq, Operation TELIC, 3 April 2003.From a CD entitled Iraq Conflict. Operation Telic, compiled by WO2 Penfound, for an exhibition at the NAM provisionally entitled Conflict (Project: Operation TELIC).Associated with 1 Company, 1st Battalion, The Irish Guards and Royal Engineers, Iraq (2003-).In a dawn raid on a university/ factory complex within sight of their patrol base at Bridge Four on the outskirts of Basra the Irish Guards attacked and cleared the base after coming under fire from small arms, mortars and SAM Missile systems which were fired from Iraqi positions at a British Lynx Helicopter supporting the Irish Guards. Date: 2003

© The National Army Museum / Mary Evans Picture Library

HMS Marlborough - Sailors preparing to land at Canakkale

HMS Marlborough - Sailors preparing to land at Canakkale. HMS Marlborough was an Iron Duke-class battleship of the British Royal Navy, named in honour of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. Built at Devonport Royal Dockyard between January 1912 and June 1914 and entered service just prior to First World War. Assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet after the war, Marlborough took part in the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War (in the Black Sea 191920). She was also involved in the Greco-Turkish War.4 Date: 1923

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection