Rank Collection (page 4)

Chinese with tobacco pipes, milkmaid, soldiers and nightwatchman.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

Bedford students demonstrate handstands Date: 1937

Rank of assisted jumps Date: 1937

Bystander - Making assurance doubly sure
An illustration showing a sergeant teaching his soldiers how to stab someone with a bayonet to maximise the effect of the stab by twisting the bayonet, in preparation for fighting in WW1. Date: 1916

A Sergeant addressing a rank of soldiers (all with surprised expressions). 301166 Sergeant Donald Mcritchie, 36Th Battery, 9Th Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force

Tobacco jar made from the base section of a brass shell
A tobacco jar made from the base section of a 1915 18 pounder brass shell containing a Coldstream Guards pattern rank garter star. Trench Art

Ibrahim Bey (El-Greitli) with two women
Ibrahim Bey, chief of Haraktas and Bey of Constantine with a female water carrier and child and also an Egyptian woman of rank. Date: 1804

The difference between the rehearsal and the real thing, 1917
Satire by Shepperson on the absence of the General from the front line during World War One. Date: 1917

2nd King Edwards Horse, men of the rank & file on drill gro
Men of the rank and file in the 2nd King Edwards Horse marching on the drill ground at White City where the regiment was quartered in 1914 before going to the front

Lunchtime scene on the Embankment, London, WW1
Rank Outsiders. A lunchtime scene on the Embankment, London, at the start of the First World War. Young men who could be joining up to fight stand idly watching through the railings as the Inns of

Joseph Rank
JOSEPH RANK Yorkshire miller and devout Methodist. Date: 1854 - 1943

Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan - Waterfront (Bund) Date: circa 1910s

Singapore - Street in the Chinese Quarter. Washing is put out on a pole in front of the houses - in some instances (as described on the reverse of this card) resembling a scarecrow! Date: 1910s

Kobe, Japan - Bund Street Date: circa 1910s

Belgian Infantry in action at Malines - WWI
Belgian Infantry in action at Malines (Mechelen / Mechlin) on 25th August 1914 during the first week of the conflict during WWI. Date: 1914

Central Station - Santiago, Chile
Central Station (Estacion Central de los F. F. C. C. del Estado) - Santiago, Chile Date: circa 1910s

A High Ranking Boyar Woman
A Boyaryshnya - A Boyar (high ranking) Woman in a fine and expensive silken gown Date: 1904

The Terrace of the Hamilton Hotel, Bermuda Date: circa 1910s

Boyaryshnya - Boyar Wife - Russia
A Boyaryshnya - A Boyar (high ranking) Woman in a fine and expensive silken gown. Date: 1900

A Boyaryshnya - A Boyar Woman
A Boyaryshnya - A Boyar (high ranking) Russian Woman with elaborate headdress, sheer veil and strings of fine pearls. Date: 1909

A rank foozler. Illustration shows William Jennings Bryan as a golfer holding a club labeled Spite, stuck in a sand trap trying to hit a golf ball labeled Cleveland and showing his likeness

Sho (Ch. mus. inst. ) - musician of higher rank
Sho (Ch. mus. inst.) - musician of higher rank. Drawing shows a nobleman playing a sho, a panpipe-like Chinese musical instrument. Date 1878?

The York Rite
Initiation to the rank of Mark-Mason 1890s

The Spice of the Trotting Turf

Romania - Bucharest - Piata Teatrului (Theatre Square) Date: circa 1909

Australia - Victorian Mounted Rifles
Victorian Mounted Rifles - Troops of the British Empire series. At the end of the row is the regimental mascot, a real kangaroo!!

The Chief Lama of Tashi Lumpo
Thubten Choekyi Nyima (1883-1937), The 9th Panchen Lama - The Chief Lama of Tashi Lhunpo. The Panchen Lama is the highest ranking Lama after the Dalai Lama in the Gelugpa (Dge-lugs-pa)

Victoria & Albert Museum
The taxi rank in front of the Victoria and Albert Museum, on Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London, designed by Sir Aston Webb and completed in 1909. Date: 1950s

Morocco - Casablanca - The Main Bus Station (Le C. T. M. - Compagne Generale de Transports), next to the Morocco State Bank Building. Date: circa 1920s

Rich Wotherspoon with other blind boy scouts
Boys of the 2nd Berkley Boy Scout Troop, California, December 8 cluster round to feel the Eagle Scout badge of Rich Wotherspoon, 20. All the boys in the picture are blind

Dutch poster, main British ranks and insignia
Dutch poster showing the main British ranks and insignia in the various wartime services. 20th century

Pages and Valets
Pages and valets, attendants on persons of rank, during the reign of Edward IV. Date: 1475

Anglo-Saxon Lady
An Anglo-Saxon lady of rank in full dress, wearing a double veil and perforated mantle, embroidered gown over her undergarment. Behind her is a hammock-like carriage. Date: 850

Primula Berninae (Berninae Primrose), a flowering perennial of the Primulaceae family with purple flowers, a cross between the Primula Hirsuta (Stinking Primrose)

A new peer: Admiral of the Fleet Sir Rossyln Wemyss
Sir Rossyln Wemyss, who recently relinquished the post of First Lord of the Sea, is to be made a Baron

Admiral Rossyln E. Wemyss
The new first Lord of the sea- A distinguised British Admiral. Sir Wemyss is appointed First Sea Lord, and succeeds Sir John Jellicoe in this rank

A Night to Remember, book and film items
The book by Walter Lord, with an information folder and film poster advertising the 1958 film, A Night to Remember, starring Kenneth More, based on the Titanic disaster of 1912

(Rear) Admiral C. E. Madden / Stamp
SIR CHARLES EDWARD MADDEN (1862 - 1935) Pictured here as Rear Admiral, but eventually reaching the rank of Admiral of the Fleet

The Haitian Army
The absolutely wonderful Haitian Army! Never has such a crack set of troops been assembled!! Ready for anything

Lady Alexandra and Maud Duff
The daughters of Princess Louise of Wales, Duchess of Fife, Alexandra (1891-1959) and Maud (1893-1945) perched in a rather elaborate cane carriage

Charles Edward, 2nd Duke of Albany, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1884-1954), as a member of the Borussia Corps of Bonn University in about 1904

The Cyclist Company of the 1st Oxford University Volunteers
Photograph of the Cyclist Company of the 1st Oxford University Volunteers, practising their drill for resisting an attack by cavalry, 1889

Class System in China
A cartoon of the Chinese class sytem, with people at the base surmounted by Clergy, who are supporting the Army (Braves), below Mandarins, with The Emperor at the very peak

London Cabs 1931
A taxi rank of old London motor cabs

China / Shanghai
A fleet of rickshaws awaiting business on a street in Shanghai, China

Carlisle Cathedral, Cumberland. Famed for its fine stained glass, it is the only Augustinian Church to attain Cathedral rank

Dreyfus in Prison / 1895
Dreyfus in prison after being found guilty of treason by a court-martial and having his rank publicly stripped

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