Rifle Collection (page 21)

5th Royal Irish Lancers - Scouts Date: 1910s

Austrian or German ship in harbour, WW1
An Austrian or German ship in harbour, with crew members, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Little girl asleep, dreaming of her soldier father
A little girl asleep in an armchair, dreaming of her soldier father who is away fighting in the First World War. The caption is written in English and French. 1915

Bosnian Bandit in traditional regional costume armed to the back teeth... Date: circa 1910

French trench facing Turkish positions, WW1
A French trench facing Turkish positions during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

General Denikins forces attacking Bolsheviks, Russia
General Denikins forces attacking Bolsheviks. Anton Ivanovich Denikin (1872-1947) served in the Imperial Russian Army during the First World War and in the Russian Civil War. Date: circa 1917-1919

Rifle Practice
The target is pointed out to a young recruit during rifle practice, Italy. Date: 1929

Japanese Army Women
Japanese women army recruits receiving instruction in the use of rifles. Date: 1930s

Shoot, Aim, Fire
Rifle shooting was once a popular lunchtime relaxation. City men are seen here practising at a range beneath the embankment, London. Date: 1932

Rifle Range
A young man tries to impress his girl, by aiming for the Bulls Eye on a fairground Rifle Range at Dingle racecourse, County Kerry, Ireland. Date: 1962

Russian infantry patrol reconnoitring, WW1
A Russian infantry patrol reconnoitring during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

British line trenches by the sea, Salonika, WW1
British line trenches by the sea at Salonika (Salonica, Thessaloniki, Greece) during the First World War. Date: circa 1916-1917

British troops at Hosh Issa, Egypt, WW1
British troops marching with fixed bayonets through Hosh Issa (or Isa), Egypt, during the First World War. They belong to the 1/4th Northamptonshire, 1/5 Bedfordshire

Belgian civilians on a quayside, WW1
Belgian civilians on a quayside during the First World War. Some of them are looking upwards, and a soldier at the centre is pointing a rifle. Date: 1914-1918

Buffalo hunt, Sri Lanka
The Charge of Sixpences -- a buffalo hunt in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). 1854

Austrian soldiers with rifle grenades, WW1
Austro-Hungarian soldiers in a trench, preparing to fire rifle grenades during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Captured German officers outside concrete bunker, WW1
Captured German officers standing outside their concrete bunker on the Western Front, France, during the First World War. On the left is a Scots soldier standing guard. Date: 1914-1918

American troops on a training exercise, France, WW1
American troops on a training exercise in France during the First World War. Date: 1917-1918

Captured Serbian troops, Mitovitza, Serbia, WW1
Captured Serbian troops at Mitovitza, Serbia, on the eastern front during the First World War. Date: 1915-1917

Soldier guarding captured guns, Montmedy, France
A soldier (probably American) guarding captured German guns at Montmedy in north eastern France just after the end of the First World War. Date: 17 December 1918

American troops in Villers-sur-Fere, France, WW1
American troops in action in Villers-sur-Fere, northern France, towards the end of the First World War. 27 July 1918

American infantry in action near St Mihiel, France, WW1
American troops of the 167th Infantry Regiment, 42nd Division, dug in and defending a farm used as a temporary stronghold, near St Mihiel, north eastern France, during the First World War

American soldiers in action, Tardenois, France, WW1
American soldiers in action during the Battle of Tardenois, northern France, First World War. Date: July 1918

American infantry in action, Montrefagne, France, WW1
American 1st Division infantry in action on the Montrefagne mountain, north of Exermont, north eastern France, towards the end of the First World War. Date: 10 November 1918

Serbian troops relaxing, WW1
Serbian troops relaxing during a break from fighting, First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Serbian troops on battlefield, WW1
Serbian troops on a battlefield during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

American troops, Battle of Cantigny, France, WW1
American troops in action alongside French tanks during the Battle of Cantigny, Somme, northern France, during the First World War. Date: 28 May 1918

Russian troops manning a shallow trench, WW1
Russian troops manning a shallow trench during the First World War, using an interesting firing position. Date: 1914

Turkish infantryman, WW1
A Turkish infantryman during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

American infantry at Varennes-en-Argonne, France, WW1
American infantry at Varennes-en-Argonne, north eastern France, during the First World War. Date: 26 September 1918

Soviet Russian political cartoon
A Soviet Russian political cartoon containing a satirical image of the late Tsar Nicholas II (top right) and the anti-Bolshevik general Pyotr Wrangel (middle right)

American and French allies with rifles, France, WW1
Scene at an American army camp in France during the First World War, showing French and American soldiers discussing the handling of their respective rifles. Date: 1917-1918

Turkish Zeibek warrior - Izmir, Turkey. Zeibeks or sometimes Zeybeks were irregular militia and guerilla fighters living in the Aegean Region of the Ottoman Empire. Date: 1905

French poster, V for Victory
A French wartime poster or cartoon illustrating V for Victory, showing a soldier holding his hands up on a map of Greece, with a bayoneted rifle pointing at him. Date: 20th century

American Signal Corps at Brest, France, WW1
Men of the US Signal Corps, 4th Infantry, arriving at Brest, north western France, during the First World War. Date: April 1918

Romanian soldiers retreating, WW1
Romanian soldiers retreating during the First World War. They are crossing a river by means of a makeshift wooden bridge. Date: 1916

Italian Bersaglieri soldiers, Palestine, WW1
Italian Bersaglieri (light infantry) soldiers with their distinctive headgear, practising their attack in Palestine during the First World War. Date: October 1917

Australian soldier near Gaza, WW1
An Australian soldier taking aim with his rifle near Gaza during the First World War. Date: circa 1917

Scots Highlander - WWI Patriotic Postcard - Union Flag
Scots Highlander soldier from the First World War on this patriotic postcard, bearing the caption Do or Die. He stands, a wound on his brow bandaged

American troops in action, Beauges sur Aire, France, WW1
American troops in action at Beauges sur Aire, northern France, during the First World War. They are firing rifle grenades. Date: 23 October 1918

A Delhi, Turkish Light Infantry
A Dehli - Turkish light cavalry. A cavalry trooper wearing a tall hat with a lance in his hand, a musket slung over his back and a curved sword at his side. He is mounted on a brown horse. 1803

British soldiers in combat on the Western Front, WW1
British soldiers in combat on the Western Front during the First World War, silhouetted against the sky. Date: 1914-1918

A Balkan mountain brigand, rifle in hand, sword in holster, uses his vantage point to search for unsuspecting victims. 1779

British soldiers firing at a German plane, WW1
British soldiers of the Royal Horse Artillery attached to the 1st Cavalry Division firing at a German plane with an automatic rifle (a Hotchkiss Mark 1)

British soldiers in combat, WW1
British soldiers in combat, with rifles and bayonets, probably during the First World War. Date: circa 1914-1918

Senegalese soldier in a trench, WW1
A Senegalese soldier in a trench during the First World War, location unknown. Date: 1914-1918

Seychelles Scouts at Rifle Drill
Scouts at rifle drill. circa 1920s-30s

Italian Sharpshooter - World War One era
Italian propaganda postacrd depicting a poised Sharpshooter - World War One era. The caption translates as: For King and Fatherland: this is the ideal of the Sharpshooters Date: circa 1916s

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