Salute Collection

Princess Elizabeth - Attending the Trooping of the Colour
Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) (1926-2022) - Attending the Trooping of the Colour - Taking the Salute. Date: circa 1952

Britains New Navy in Training - HMS Raleigh. circa 1930s

Queen Elizabeth II salutes
The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh salute at the gates of Buckingham Palace, at the close of the Trooping of the Colour ceremony. 1953

HRH Queen Elizabeth II - Trooping of the Colour
The Queen attending the Trooping of the Colour ceremony in her Coronation year, seen here riding to Horse Guards Parade on her official birthday to take the salute of the Brigade of Guards

An Avro Vulcan B2 gives a birthday salute to Barnes Wallace
An Avro Vulcan B2 gives a birthday salute to Sir Barnes Wallis in September 1977. Date: 1977

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill V for victory salut
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill making his V for victory salute

Cable Street demonstration 1936
Anti-fascist crowds, some giving the Communist clenched fist salute, gather round a tram in the East End of London. A very large crowd gathered to protest against the proposed march by Sir Oswald

Scottish troops take part in Victory parade in Paris - WWI
Scottish regiments taking part in the Victory parade in Paris following the end of World War One - 14th July 1919. The soldiers march below the Arc de Triomphe. Date: 1919

Royal Flying Corps Made
The Royal Flying Corps is created as a new branch of the British Armed Forces Date: 1914

WW2 - The Girls Of Today, W. R. E. N. Salute
A WW2 children's book illustration from The Girls Of Today. The image shows a British Royal Navy admiral taking a salute from a servicewomen of the Women's Royal Naval Service

Alexander Kerensky, Russian leader, taking the salute
Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky (1881-1970), Russian political leader before and during the Russian Revolutions of 1917. Seen here (left) in uniform, taking the salute. Date: 1917

Lord Kitchener reviewing Indian Troops - WWI
Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, (1850 - 1916), a British Field Marshal, diplomat and statesman, reviewing Indian troops - World War one era

WW1 - USA Saving Humanity by joining the war. Date: 1918

Music cover, Apple Blossom Time
Music cover, I ll be with you in Apple Blossom Time, sung by The Andrews Sisters in the Universal Picture, Rookies. 1941

Salutes Assorted by Alfred Leete
Humorous caricatures of various Army types showing the assorted styles of salutes used. Date: 1918

WW2 Paris Liberation - Eisenhower - Tomb of Unknown Soldier
WW2 - Paris Liberation - General Dwight D Eisenhower at the Tomb of Unknown Soldier, Arch de Triomphe, Paris, France. Date: 1945

Centenary parade of the Cadet Forces in Great Britain
H.M. the Queen taking the salute of the parade in the garden of Buckingham Palace

Oak Apple Day at Chelsea Hospital
Lord Roberts takes the salute of the Chelsea Pensioners as they march past the statue of Charles II, which is covered with oak branches in honour of Oak Apple Day

Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965) British politician and Prime Minister amongst the ruins of Berlin at the end of the Second World War giving a V sign victory salute

Patriotic Bovril advertisement during WW2
Patriotic Bovril advertisement during the Second World War -- Cheers! Date: 1940s

Queen Elizabeth II - Attending the Trooping of the Colour - Taking the Salute at Horseguards Parade. Date: circa 1954

Camel corps at Delhi Durbar, 1912
An impressive incidient at the Delhi Durbar, 1912: His Highness the Nawab of Bahawalpur, the boy prince of India, leading his camel corps past the King-Emperor, who is returning his salute. Date: 1912

Strip tease card game - Theatre suit - Doorman. A game which features characters involved in performing (and subsequently prosecuting and defending) a striptease

Two boys saluting, probably during the Second World War. The one on the right is wearing a tin helmet and a gas mask. The one on the left is wearing a Royal Artillery peaked cap

WW1 Allegory - The Allies greet the arriving Italian Soldier
Viva L Italia ! - WW1 Allegory - The Allies greet the arriving Italian Soldier - " Banded together to face the foe." Date: circa 1916

Common courtesy training / W H Robinson
Training a husband in the act of common courtesy, using a dressmakers dummy, a piece of string and a determined wife. A quick jerk of the string and the husbands hat swiftly rearranges itself

OSWALD MOSLEY / SALUTE 33
OSWALD ERNALD MOSLEY British politician, founded British Union of Facists, known as the Blackshirts (1932), saluting. Date: 1896 - 1980

Visit to England by the Shah of Persia
Visit by Ahmad Shah Qajar (1898-1930) - Shah of Persia (Iran) from 1909 to 1925. The Qajar dynasty. An inspection of the guard of honour at Dover

Peg O My Heart, Marina Theatre, Lowestoft, Suffolk
Peg O My Heart, a play by Hartley Manners at the Marina Theatre, Lowestoft, Suffolk. circa 1910s

WW2 - Fascist Italian Propaganda - Young Patriot saluting
WW2 - Fascist Italian Propaganda Postcard - Young Patriot saluting " Passing the F; ags". Date: circa 1941

WW1 - Female US Soldier saluting. Date: circa 1917

Duke, Duchess of York, Princess Elizabeth - Royal Tournament
Albert, Duke of York (1895-1952), Elizabeth, Duchess of York (1900-2002) and Princess Elizabeth arrive for the Royal Tournament at Olympia, London

Call Boy Impregnated Safety Matches, average 50 matches

WW2 - Salute To the Brave
An illustrated front cover for a WW2 story book, Salute To The Brace, written by Clementine Hunter. The image a folder of documents and a pistol. Date: circa 1940s

Salute The Soldier Music Cover
An illustrated WW2 music sheet cover for Salute The Soldier, by Eric Coates, specially composed for the National Savings Committee for the Salute The Soldier campaign

Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia as a cadet sailor
Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia (1904-1918) (third from right) with his troupe of sailor cadets'. Date: circa 1913

Russia - Tsar Nicholas II aboard L'Etendard, in Finland
Tsar Nicholas II, aboard L'Etendard, in the Fjords, Finland, tasting the sailors food. Date: circa 1910

The Colours and Escort, the Manchester Regiment Date: 1915

La Prise
A collection of illustrative studies based on a French soldier, he is standing in example, with different postures and directions indicating gestures of anxiety, impatience, frustration

Corporal Instructing His Men
An illustration depicting a corporal shouting as his organised unit of men, accompanied with the following translated caption

Music cover, Salut a Vous, Rois des Airs! WW1
Music cover, Salut a Vous, Rois des Airs! Marche des Aviateurs (We Salute You, Kings of the Air, March of the Aviators), words by Marius Gay, Academy Officer, music by Joseph Paget

Serenata On The Grand Canal, Venice
This mezzotint in colours shows the Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute, a church opened in 1687, designed by architect, Baldassare Longhena, situated along the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy

Music cover, Joyeuse Entree, march for piano by Alidor Thiry, celebrating the triumphant entry of King Albert of Belgium into Brussels, 23 December 1909 Date: 1909

Journey of the King and Queen of Spain to Galicia (August 9, 1881). Galicia, La Coruna province, Ferrol. The corvette Tornado, leading to King Alfonso XII and Queen Maria Cristina

Winston Churchill at St James's Palace
Winston Churchill (1874-1965) attending the first court of King George V at St James's Palace. Churchill had been appointed Home Secretary earlier in the year. Date: 1910

Firing the salute at the opening of Tower Bridge, London. Date: 30th June 1894

Victoria's funeral, placing coffin Victoria Station
Queen Victoria's funeral: Before the procession through London, a party of twelve bearers lifted Queen Victoria's coffin from the Royal train placing it upon the gun-carriage at Victoria

Queen Victoria's coffin at Paddington station
Queen Victoria's funeral: King Edward VII, (left) chief mourner, German Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II, (middle) and the Duke of Connaught (right)

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