Rifle Collection (page 19)

British army in action in India
Men of the British army in action in India. Date: 1918

Soldiers in gas masks, Western Front, WW1
Soldiers in gas masks on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Boy on sentry duty
A boy in a tin helmet with a rifle on his shoulder, playing at being on sentry duty. Date: circa 1940s

Postcard, Czech soldier and dancer, WW1
Postcard showing a Czech soldier with his rifle, being entertained by a dancer (probably French) during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Postcard, Czechoslovak Recruiting Office, WW1
Patriotic postcard issued by the Czechoslovak Recruiting Office during the First World War, showing a Czech soldier appealing to his fellow-countrymen living in America to join him

British soldiers on the Somme, France, WW1
Two British soldiers on the Somme, France, during the First World War -- a greeting inside a wartime Christmas card. Date: November 1916

Scottish troops at Contalmaison, France, WW1
Scottish troops at Contalmaison, France, during the First World War. Date: September 1916

Soldier with rifle and bayonet
Soldier of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in winter uniform in Tientsin (now Tianjin) in China, standing to attention with rifle and fixed bayonet. Date: C.1911

German soldier in China, probably in the German concession in Tientsin (Tianjin). Date: C.1911

British guard in Peking, China
British guard in Peking (now Beijing), China, with rifle and bayonet Date: 1911

English public schoolboys at Bisley
Boys from Harrow School and University College firing at 500 yards as volunteer marksmen at Bisley. The National Rifle Association was established in 1860 to encourage

Lt. -Col. Charles Robert Crosse, Vanity Fair, WH
Lt.-Col. CHARLES ROBERT CROSSE M.V.O. C.M.G.. (died 1921) Gained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the service of the Royal West Kent Regiment

British soldier asleep in a trench
A British soldier, his rifle and helmet beside him, sleeps in the uncomfortable surroundings of his trench. 1916

Snider, Inventor
F H SNIDER (or Snyder) inventor of the Snider rifle about whom nothing else seems to be known. Date: CIRCA 1870S

WW1 - Cute patriotic British postcard - emulating ancestors
WW1 - Cute patriotic British postcard - a little boy strives to emulate the military feats of our ancestors, or in this case his elders! Date: circa 1916

WW2 - Russian Propaganda - Repelling Germans in the Baltic
WW2 - New Years greetings to the Baltic - a Soviet propaganda postcard from 1942 showing a Russian soldier finishing off an Invading German in the Baltic

Japan - Drill for Japanese Sailors on deck of HIJMS Asama during the Russo-Japanese War (8th February 1904 5th September 1905). The card was sent on 25th June 1904. Date: 1904

8th Duke of Devonshire and Sir John Eldon Gorst
The Story of the Duke and the Bunnygorst. Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire (1833-1908) as a rather lazy layabout

WW1 - In Picardy - Tommy, the Vanquisher of the Hun
WW1 - In Picardy - The Noble British Tommy, the Vanquisher of the Hun... A British soldier stands over the body of a dead German soldier in a trench on the Western Front

Injured colonial French Soldier (WW1) cared for by nurse
WW1 - An injured colonial French Soldier (Senegalese?) cared for by a pretty nurse. Date: circa 1917

Tchete - Turkish Peasant from Cilicia, Syria
A Tchete - Turkish Peasant brigand from Cilicia photographed in Syria (very close by) Date: circa 1910s

Two Algerian soldiers firing from behind the cover of a cart. Date: circa 1915

English Blue Jacket - Enlisted Sailor in British Navy
English Blue Jacket - the term for an enlisted sailor in the British Navy. Looking out to sea, just in case anyone was heading our way... Date: circa 1910s

French encouraged to pour their gold into French WW1 effort
Dramatic patriotic postcard encouraging the French population to pour their gold into the French WW1 war effort or to exchange their gold at banks for real money to contribute. Date: 1915

Russian Infantry and Cavalry Militiamen. Date: late 19th century

A Kremlin Guard in traditional pre-Revolutionary uniform, Moscow, Russia Date: circa 1903

WWI - Sweet Remembrance from France - Shell through wall
WWI - Sweet Remembrance from France - The Same to you, and many of them! A resting soldier is seemingly unperturbed by a large artillery Shell bursting through the wall above his bed

For Peace at almost any price - Johnnie Turk flees - WWI
For Peace at almost any price - Johnnie Turk flees, having been let down by his German Master at the end of WWI. Baghdad and Jerusalem are abandoned

Vietnam - Guard of the Debernardi Concession
" An old acquaintance among the Cochin hunters - Guard of the Debernardi Concession". Cochin here refers to Cochinchina

Al-Kadhimiya Mosque, Baghdad, Iraq - WWI Xmas card
A rather unusual Christmas Greetings postcard, featuring a World War One era soldier (serving on the Mesopotamian front) in patriotic pose before an inset view of the Al-Kadhimiya Mosque, Baghdad

Italian Sharpshooter (Bersaglieri)
Italian Sharpshooter ( Bersaglieri ) holding his rifle.. Date: circa 1910s

French Colonial Soldiers from Morocco - WWI
French Colonial Soldiers from Morocco examining war booty at Neufmoutiers-en-Brie (Seine-et-Marne departement) - WWI Date: 1915

Protecting Russian territory in Manchuria
A young Russian soldier guarding the security of Manchuria. Date: 1904

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Supplement of
" Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Supplement of the journal " Ej鲣 ito Popular" (Popular Army), edited by the Propaganda Undersecretarys Office of Barcelona."

English soldiers fighting in Transvaal. Second Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902. Engraving

United States (19th c. ). Gold seeker in California
United States (19th c.). Gold seeker in California

Exterior spring rifle, made by Urive, gunsmith s
Exterior spring rifle, made by Urive, gunsmiths in Eibar (Spain, 1833). SPAIN. Vitoria. Museum of the Armeric (armoury)

Spain (1830). Provincial Militia. Litography. SPAIN. Madrid. Museo Nacional del Romanticismo

Army of the Kingdom of Italy. Gendarmerie scelta
" Army of the Kingdom of Italy. " Gendarmerie scelta della Guardia Reale", 1808. Napoleonic epoch. Engraving."

Military dresses of the Hungarian infantry. 19th c. 1838. Soldier, standard bearer sergeant and second lieutenant. Watercolour

Tales from Many Lands: The Four Foolish Women

World War Two Polish infantry
Poland as a military power: cavalry, tanks and infantry. Poland prepares - the Polish infantry manoeuvers their unit across open ground. Date: 1939

Lrb Formal Dinner 1938
Formal dinner for past and present officers of the London Rifle Brigade. Date: 1938

Leopold / Albany / Faustin
LEOPOLD DUKE OF ALBANY 4th son of Queen Victoria: a (slightly) satirical view Date: 1853 - 1884

Officer from the First Troop, Philadelphia, seated by a tent in which a writing desk is visible. A soldier marches with a rifle nearby. Date 1839

Russian soldier on horseback, carrying a sword in right hand, a spear in left hand, and a rifle mounted on his chest with a string extending from the trigger to his mouth. Date 1904 or 1905

Annie Oakley - famous rifle shot and holder of the Police Gazette championship medal. Portrait photograph of sharpshooter Annie Oakley, full-length portrait, standing, facing front, holding rifle

Captain Morgan, Rifle Corps, ADC. to General Bernard, on Coxcomb the winner of the Crimean races, the property of Captain Barnard, Grenadier Guards

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