Rifle Collection (page 15)

Lady with Rifle (Poss. Winchester), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Date: 1900s

Man with Rifle (Poss. Winchester), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Date: 1900s

Using socks to keep rifles in working order, WW1
A winters fighting expedient. A sock with the toe cut off and soaked in oil, used to cover the muzzle and keep a British soldiers rifle in good working order

Family of four with a dog and a doll in a garden
Family of four with a terrier dog and a doll in a garden. The little boy is holding a toy rifle. Date: circa 1920s

Man in uniform with a terrier dog at a farm, with a large bale of hay in the background. Date: circa 1940s

Cartoon, German soldier dreaming, WWI
Cartoon, the Boches dream. A hungry German soldier dreams of beer and sausages while asleep in the snow on the Western Front during WW1. Date: 1915

King Alfonso XIII shooting in a skirt
King Alfonso XIII (1886-1941), King of Spain captured at a shooting party wearing what appears to be a skirt but is in fact a shooting apron. Date: 1914

WW2 greetings card, Safety First, showing a sleeping bear with a barrage balloon on a piece of string. Date: circa 1942

WW2 birthday card, dog as soldier, Pack up your Troubles and have a darn good smile! Date: circa 1942

WW2 Christmas card, guard duty
WW2 Christmas card, soldier on guard duty with factories in the distance. Date: 1939

WW2 greetings card, smiling soldier
WW2 pop-up greetings card, smiling soldier in khaki uniform. Date: circa 1942

Scots American War Memorial, Edinburgh, Scotland
Scots (Scottish) American War Memorial, Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland, erected in 1927. At the centre is a kilted infrantyman looking towards Castle Rock

Group of boy scouts, Cyclists Rifles Brigade, in a field. Date: circa 1910

WW2 greetings card, Home Guard -- The Mayor and Corporation. Date: circa 1942

Prince of Wales with his gun
Prince of Wales later King George V (1865 1936), with his gun, one of his favourite sports was hunting animals. 1903

Group photo, British soldiers and civilians, WW1
Group photo, British soldiers (including two young women in uniform, with rifles) and civilians, at a camp. Date: circa 1914

Cartoon, Hands Up! WW1
Cartoon, Hands Up! A German soldier holds up the severed hands of his female victim, calling to the enemy not to shoot, we are soldiers just like you. Date: 1915

Cartoon, Mutiny, WW1
Cartoon, Mutiny -- French children playing war games, some of them representing the German enemy. They are in the Rue St Vincent, Montmartre, Paris, near the Sacre Coeur. Date: 1915

Prince of Wales during a march 1913
Prince of Wales later Edward VIII (1894 1972), during a march, while he is attending national service. Date: 1913

Cartoon, The Good Alphabet, WW1
Cartoon, The Good Alphabet. Two Frenchmen with different initials on their armbands meet on a country road. The main thing is that they are on the same side. Date: 1915

Cartoon, The bad cloud, WW1
Cartoon, The bad cloud, showing a cloud of gas billowing across the battlefield, just as the French soldiers are preparing to charge

Cartoon, Return to the Front, WW1
Cartoon, Return to the Front, showing a group of French soldiers sharing stories about how they spent their four days of leave. Date: 1915

Boys with toy gun, Balham, SW London
Two boys on a Balham street, SW London. The younger boy has a plastic bottle in his mouth, while the older one holds a toy gun. Date: circa 1961

WWI Poster, Buy More Liberty Bonds
Design by Walter Whitehead, Come On! buy more Liberty Bonds, American WW1 poster. Date: 1918

WWI Poster, US Food Administration
Design by Harvey Dunn, Victory is a Question of Stamina, Send the Wheat, Meat, Fats, Sugar, the fuel for Fighters. United States Food Administration poster. Date: 1917

WWI Poster, Go and Help
Dont Stand Looking at this, Go and Help! Parliamentary Recruiting poster, one of the few showing men going into action. Date: 1915

H. L. Oakley cutting the silhouette of a fellow officer
Captain Harry Lawrence Oakley, the famous silhouette artist, pictured cutting the silhouette of a fellow officer in what looks like a dug-out during World War One. Date: 1920s

That Thirst For Reprisals, by Bairnsfather
That Thirst for Reprisals " And me a rifle someone, I ll give these ___s ell for this" A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander 1915

Hopefuls off to the Californian gold fields with their belongings and equipment loaded on their horses and carrying pistols and rifle. From L Illustration Paris 18 June 1853. Engraving

Stanley and his boy Kululu
Hand coloured. Illustration of African boy in a loin cloth sits at the feet of a Caucasian man, wearing the clothes of an explorer.This is believed to be Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904)

Man leaning against a tree with rifle
Black and white (appears sepia in some lights). A man leaning against a tree with a rifle leaned up next to him, and two dogs sitting on the ridge behind him. Presumably they are hunting

Baldwins knitting leaflet, WW1, winter at the front
Field & Hospital Comforts in Knitting and Crochet. Great War knitting booklet published by J & J Baldwins of Halifax featuring two British soldiers in a snowy trench on the Western Front

WWI Poster, Think!... Join Today
WWI Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster, Think! Are you content for him to fight for you? Won t you do your bit? We shall win but YOU must help. Join Today. Date: 1915

WWI Poster, Come with me, Boys (Welsh version)
WWI Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster, Come with me Boys (Welsh version). Depicting a smiling soldier in khaki uniform. Date: 1915

Sailors camping party, Virago Sound, Canada
Sailors camping party, Virago Sound, Graham Island, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada. They belong to HMS Egeria, a British Royal Navy coastal survey ship. Date: 1907

Group photo, Mayo, Yukon Territory, Canada
Group photo outside the Hotel Royal Alexandra (proprietor Oscar Letourneau), Mayo, Yukon Territory, Canada, 11 October 1919. According to the inscription, those pictured are about to leave

Sphere cover -Crew of tank inspecting German anti-tank rifle
The crew of a British tank pictured inspecting a captured anti-tank rifle which, when put to use, was entirely ineffective upon its intended victim

Sphere cover - British plane caught by German gun fire
A British aeroplane, caught making a daring raid over enemy lines and flying very low to drop bombs on German entrenched troops, is fired on by a machine gun as well as several rifles

Policeman with rifle
A man, presumably wearing police uniform, but with a leather harness with pouches or bags attached, and a very large rifle. Date: c. 1885

Sphere cover - His Xmas letter from the trenches, Matania
Front cover of The Sphere featuring an illustration by Fortunino Matania of a British soldier writing a letter home to his family at Christmas

Watch me make a fire-bucket of is elmet
Two British soldiers have a couple minutes to practise shooting

Soldiers in action on Western Front, WW1
Soldiers in action on the Western Front, firing their guns. Date: 1918

Robert Shaw Monument, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Robert Gould Shaw (1837-1863) Monument, Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Depicting Shaw as commander of the all-black 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment

My Magazine cover - British WW1 soldier
Front cover of the childrens title, My Magazine featuring a British infantry soldier marching in profile. 1918

Suffragette Vive Les Suffragettes!. Young woman in Khaki uniform holds a rifle, with the caption, Vive les suffragettes! Take me with you Tommy Date: circa 1915

Indian and French soldiers near the front during WWI
A French officer explains the French carbine to Indian officers, near the front in France. Date: 1916

Indian soldiers on the road to Jerusalem during World War I
Photographs of Indian soldiers under General Allenbys command on the road to Jerusalem during World War I. Clockwise from top-left

Sentry dog, WW1
A sentry dog, which went out with the British Expeditionary Force in 1914. It was killed on the Aisne. Date: 1914-18

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