Raider Collection

A Viking Warrior
Old Vic Company - the role of Ornulf the Viking played by Percy Walsh

ZEPPELIN RAIDER / 1915-16
A Zeppelin raider is caught in the searchlights over the countryside

WW2 - Merchant Seamen
A photograph showing a crew of British WW2 merchant seamen, with smoke trails in the background, indicating an enemy raider being shot down. Date: circa 1942

WW2 - British Fighter Plane Destroys Enemy Raider
An illustration showing some British WW2 fighter planes intercepting and destroying enemy raiders attempting to cross our coast. Date: circa 1940s

Northrop YC-125A Raider N2571B (msn 2517, ex 48-633), of Frank Ambrose Aviation, in storage surrounded by snow in New Mexico.. Date: circa 1960

Claydon Easy Raider J2. 2 G-OEZI
Claydon Easy Raider J2.2 G-OEZI (msn BMAA-HB-216). Date: circa 2005

Khyber Pass - Dead Afghan Frontier Raider
The Khyber Pass - the mountain pass that links Pakistan and Afghanistan. Throughout history it has been an important trade route between Central Asia and South Asia and a strategic military location

Hanriot HD-1 flown by Charles Nungesser
The Hanriot HD-1 flown by famed World War I French Ace Charles Nungesser in the 1925 movie The Sky Raider, with Nungessers distinctive badge on the fuselage side

WW1 - Home Front - Zeppelin Raid on Southend - bomb damage
WW1 - Home Front - Zeppelin Raid on Southend - incendiary bomb damage. Date: 1915

WW1 - Home Front - Naval Raid on Scarborough - shell damage on the lighthouse. Date: 1914

British naval convoy system by G. H. Davis
The method of safeguarding the freedom of the seas: the British naval convoy system at work. Making the high seas safe for Allied

Pocket battleship Deutschland by G. H. Davis
A hunted German raider believed to be active in the Atlantic: the pocket battleship Deutschland. A photograph (above), and a cross-section drawing (below). Date: 1939

The Plunger by D H Higgins
Promotional flyer for The Plunger by D. H. Higgins. First produced at the Opera House, Burnley, 5th August and Elephant & Castle Theatre, 2nd October 1893

WW1 - Zeppelin downed over Potters Bar
WW1 - An illustration depicting the four stages of a Zeppelin raider bursting into flames, and its fall through the starry night sky over Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, England

Friedrichshafen FF 33E German plane on ships hoist
Friedrichshafen FF 33E German scout plane (serial no. 841), nicknamed the Wolfchen (Baby Wolf), seen here on a ships hoist on 6 March 1918

Searchlight command by G. H. Davis
Searchlight command: the men who point the way for Britains anti-aircraft guns and night fighters during the Second World War

British Hurricane ramming Italian raider by G. H. Davis
The new technique in air attack during the Second World War: a British Hurricane ramming an Italian raider in mid-air. The British pilot said of the incident

British night fighters by G. H. Davis
Methods of Britains night fighters during the Second World War: the element of surprise. Clear, dark nights are ideal for hunting enemy raiders

Drama in the North Sea, German raider force down, 1939
A scene out in the North Sea showing the crew of a German flying boat, which had participated in an air attack upon ships of the British fleet waiting to be rescued by a British destroyer having been

Khyber Pass - Dead Afghan Frontier Loosewala
The Khyber Pass - the mountain pass that links Pakistan and Afghanistan. Throughout history it has been an important trade route between Central Asia and South Asia and a strategic military location

Frontier Raiders under military escort, NWFP
Frontier Raiders ( Loosewallahs ) - religious fanatics from the border territory of the NWFP, under military escort by British Indian Colonial soldiers. Date: circa 1920s

HMAS Sydney landing party, Direction Island, WW1
Landing party of HMAS Sydney in a rowing boat, just about to arrive at Direction Island, in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Indian Ocean, during the early part of the First World War

Norway - Trondheim - King Olaf Tryggvason
Norway - Trondhjem - Statue of the Viking King Olaf Tryggvason (960s1000), founder of the city (in 997) Date: circa 1920s

When the Raider Drops in by Heath Robinson
Hints for householders for when a German raider drops in during World War I. Don t surrender - do sit on him until help arrives

The crew of the Infamous German surface raider SMS Mowe

Searchlights over St Pauls Cathedral
Searchlights pick out the menacing shape of a German Zeppelin flying a bombing raid over the capital during World War One

General Christian De Wet
General De Wet was an elusive guerilla leader and raider of the British lines of communication in the Boer War. During World War One his name was linked to the traitor Maritz

L15 Surrenders
The wrecked air raider, Zeppelin L15 is rescued by the HMS Olivine after brought down on the Thames Estuary on April 1 1916

A zeppelin raider
A photograph showing a German Zeppelin air-ship over London on October 13th 1915, with shells from anti-aircraft guns bursting upon it

Sydney Destroys Emden
Australian cruiser Sydney destroys the German raider Emden off North Keeling Island

EMDEN SINKS SHIPS
The German raider Emden sinks two British ships, Tumerico and King Lud, but will herself be sunk by the Australians in November off North Keeling Island

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