Rifle Collection (page 17)

Kings Royal Rifle Corps badge on matchbox holder, WW1
Kings Royal Rifle Corps badge on a brass matchbox holder. Trench Art

Wind up at 2 AD, WW1
Wind up at 2 AD. By Lieutenant George Arthur Hyde, MC, Kings Royal Rifle Corps and 54 Squadron Royal Flying Corps

Aerial combat, WW1
Aerial combat (four planes in picture). By Lieutenant George Arthur Hyde, MC, Kings Royal Rifle Corps and 54 Squadron Royal Flying Corps

The early show, WW1
The early show. By Lieutenant George Arthur Hyde, MC, Kings Royal Rifle Corps and 54 Squadron Royal Flying Corps

Pilot (on his first escort), WW1
Pilot (on his first escort). I wish these FE s, or whatever they are, would not go so far East. By Lieutenant George Arthur Hyde, MC, Kings Royal Rifle Corps and 54 Squadron Royal Flying Corps

That evening star-shell - Bairnsfather
Cartoon, That evening star-shell. Oh, star of eve, whose tender beam falls on my spirits troubled dream. From Fragments from France - No. 5, published by The Bystander in 1916

Cartoon, No possible doubt whatever, WW1
Cartoon, No possible doubt whatever. Sentry Alt ! Who goes there? He of the bundle You shut yer mouth, or I ll come and knock yer ead off. Sentry Pass friend! From Fragments from France - No

Statuette of a 1914 Tommy
Bronze statuette of a 1914 Tommy, English School. Date: 1914

In a moment of victory, WW1
In a moment of victory, by F.H.K

Infantryman, WW1 Rifle Brigade Memorial
Infantryman, part of the First World War Rifle Brigade Memorial at Grosvenor Gardens, London, SW1. By John Tweed (1869-1933)

Le Tommy Anglais and Types Canadiens, WW1
Le Tommy Anglais and Types Canadiens, by Jean-Jacques Berne-Bellecour (1874-1939), drawn for Dans Les Lignes Anglaises, published 1917. Date: 1917

Bronze Statuette - Sgt Grenadier Guards in Marching Order
Bronze Statuette - Sergeant, Grenadier Guards, in Marching Order, by George Edward Wade (1853-1933). Wade sculpted a Peace Memorial with Bronze Figure of Christ at Quarry Bank, Staffordshire

Bronze Statuette - Sgt Grenadier Guards in Battle Order
Bronze Statuette - Sergeant, Grenadier Guards, in Battle Order, by George Edward Wade (1853-1933). Wade sculpted a Peace Memorial with Bronze Figure of Christ at Quarry Bank, Staffordshire

Bronze Maquette for the Kings Royal Rifle Corps Memorial
Bronze Maquette for the Kings Royal Rifle Corps. Memorial at Winchester

German ashtray, WW1
German ashtray with a German soldier lying on his front aiming his rifle. Trench Art. Date: circa 1914

Two Austrian infantrymen, WW1
Statuettes of Austrian infantrymen. Date: circa 1914

The Hand of Friendship - British Tommy & Tirailleur Algerien
The Hand of Friendship - British Tommy and Tirailleur Algerien, c.1914. By Richard Caton Woodville, RI (1856-1927). Date: circa 1914

Cartoon, A Busmans Holiday, WW1
WW1 cartoon, A Busmans Holiday, by Lawson Wood (1878-1957). He served In France for nearly three years as an officer in the Kite Balloon Wing of the Royal Flying Corps, and at GHQ. Date: 1914-1918

Royal Flying Corps airmen attack a German monoplane, 1914
British army airmen of the Royal Flying Corps attacking a German monoplane in 1914. The pilot is seated behind the observer in the British biplane; the observer repels attack and fires on the enemy

Louis Mansfield, Port Pirie, South Australia
Louis Mansfield, boy scout of Port Pirie, South Australia, with rifle

A Foster, 1st West Australian Scout Troop
A Foster, member of 1st West Australian Scout Troop, with rifle

Cartoon, Fritz to Wilhelm, WW1
Cartoon, Fritz to Wilhelm during the First World War -- I didn t want to do it, but you made me. Date: 1914

Cartoon, German soldier with mask of Culture, WW1
Cartoon, German soldier with a mask of Culture (Kultur) during the First World War. Date: 1914

Masbadges - 3. The Kayahah
Masbadges! Regimental mascots and badges in one! In this case the hare of the Kings Royal Rifle Corps. Date: 1918

Royal visit to the Great American Exhibition, 1887
The royal visit to the Wild West Show at the Great American Exhibition in West London in 1887: 1. Queen Victoria viewing an equine spectacle in the arena 2

French soldiers - an old hand and new recruit by Georges Sco
Piou-Piou the veteran and Piou-Piou the recruit: Tips from the Lips of Experience. An old, experienced hand takes a new recruit under his wing in the French trenches. Date: 1915

The Bishop of London, Arthur Foley Winnington-Ingram KCVO PC
Front-cover of The Sketch featuring The Bishop of London (1858-1946), who was Chaplain to the London Rifle Brigade and London Royal Naval Volunteers from 1901

Woman with rifle sitting on five bar gate
Woman with a rifle sitting on a five bar gate

Arthur Winnington-Ingram, Bishop of London, WW1
Arthur Foley Winnington-Ingram (18581946), bishop of London, wearing the uniform of the Rifle Brigade to which he was attached as chaplain in 1914

Mrs Baliol Scott teaching men how to shoot, WW1
Mrs Baliol Scott, the famous woman rifle shot, teaching boys how to shoot at the Byfleet Ladies Rifle Range of which she was a prominent member

Bishop of London addressing London Rifle Brigade, WW1
A war service conducted by the Bishop of London pictured addressing the London Rifle Brigade while the unit was in camp. The Bishop spent several days under canvas with the brigade

Prince of Wales joins the Grenadier Guards
A photograph of Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII and then Duke of Windsor) pictured looking rather nervous having joined the Grenadier Guards on the outbreak of war in 1914

Two weapons automatic rifle & Germans automatic pistol 1917
The comparison of the automatic rifle and Germans automatic pistol shown here in this diagram. The length of the automatic rifle

Making Dummy Guns at Birmingham
For bayonet practice and other aspects of training, recruits to the new army during the First World War were supplied with dummy guns

Beechams Pills advertisement, WW1
Advertisement for Beechams Pills from 1916 featuring the outlined silhouette of a British soldiers who states there are two good things in these days of trial - bullets for the boches

Teasing the Turk, WW1
An Irishman in a trench during the Dardanelles teases the Turkish enemy with a pith helment on his rifle, peeping over the parapet. Date: 1915

Advertisements for John Sinclairs tobacco by H. L. Oakley
Four complementary advertisements for John Sinclairs Barneys and Punchbowle pipe tobacco, designed by H. L. Oakley and featuring men at work and leisure enjoying a quality smoke. Date: 1920s

Chauhan Rajputs, northern India
Group photo of four Chauhan Rajputs (meaning, literally, son of a king), of northern India. Date: circa 1890s

British soldier with birdcages, Western Front, WW1
A British soldier finds birdcages in the ruins of Ovillers, on the Western Front in France (Somme) during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Black Watch soldiers taking a break, WW1
Black Watch soldiers taking a break on the Western Front during World War One. The man at the centre is holding a rifle grenade. Date: circa 1916

Wolverhampton Royal Orphanage
Older boys carry out rifle drill while younger ones look on at the Wolverhampton Royal Orphanage. Date: Date unknown

Money and munitions by G. H. Davis
Money and munitions: an illustrated armament catalogue. Pictures showing the various costs of the weapons used during the Second World War, ranging from a battleship at 8, 000

Hunting giraffe
The Fall of the Giraffe. A giraffe is shot at close range by a hunter who has dismounted from his horse. Date: 1884

British soldier fishing with bayoneted rifle, WW1
A British soldier fishing in a canal with his bayoneted rifle after fighting at Mons, Belgium, in the early days of the First World War. Date: 1914

Comic wartime scene, Western Front, WW1
Comic wartime scene on the Western Front, showing a happy soldier going on leave (left), and an unhappy soldier returning (right). Date: December 1915

Silhouette of man and dog out hunting
Silhouette of a man and his dog out hunting partridge with a rifle. Date: 20th century

German Red Cross soldiers in Berlin, WW1
German Red Cross soldiers marching along a Berlin street in the early stages of the First World War. Date: September 1914

Prince Henry as a private at Eton OTC, WWI
Prince Henry, later Duke of Gloucester (1900 - 1974), third son of King George V and Queen Mary, pictured as a private in the Eton College Officers Training Corps, where he was at camp at Tidworth

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