Rifles Gallery

Gun Running by Ulster Volunteer Force

Rifles and ammunition are landed at Donaghadee, County Down, by the Ulster Volunteer Force and loaded onto a charabanc usually used in the summer for tourists to the area. The report in The Illustrated London News suggested that on the night of Friday 24 April and early hours of the next day 35, 000 rifles and 1, 000, 000 rounds of ammunition were landed from a steamer disguised as the Mountjoy, said to have been the Fanny'. The weapons were taken ashore at Larne, Bangor and Donaghadee and then distributed throughout Ulster. Date: April 1914

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Three American soldiers, Camp Dodge, Iowa, WW1

Three American soldiers (known as Doughboys) at Camp Dodge, Iowa, USA, during the First World War, with 1917 Enfield rifles. They were part of the 352nd Infantry, 88th Division, which served in Alsace, France. The man in the middle is Willner Eugene Sandell (1894-1984), who emigrated to the USA from Sweden in 1913. The card was posted from Sweden in November 1918.
1918

© Mary Evans / Pharcide

Bren Gunner, 7th Gurkha Rifles, Burma, 1944 (c)

Photograph: A well-concealed Bren Gunner of the 7th Gurkha Rifles amongst the thick foliage of the Burmese jungle, 1944 (c). The soldier depicted was probably a member of the 1st Battalion, part of 48th Indian Infantry Brigade of 17th Indian Division. The latter had the distinction of being almost continually in combat during the three-year long Burma Campaign.From a photograph album of 63 photographs presented to The Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, by the officers, 7th Gurkha Rifles. Date: circa 1944

© The National Army Museum / Mary Evans Picture Library