Sentries Collection

Tomb of the Unknown Warrior, 1920
Four sentries stand with heads bowed at the grave of the unknown soldier following the ceremony in Westminster Abbey on Armistice Day, 11 November 1920. 1920

Royal Horse Guard Sentries - Life Guards, Horseguards Parade, Whitehall, London Date: 1943

British and French sentries guarding a railway line - WW0
British and French sentries guarding a railway line during WW1

Changing Sentries at Buckingham Palace, London Pageantry by Charles Howard

Sentries and donkeys enjoy the bracing weather in the British Artillery Camp and Siege Train, before Sebastopol. Date: winter 1854 - 55

SOLDIERS AND GHOST
The ghost of Hamlets father appears on the battlements of Elsinore and alarms the sentries

Wolves attack Russian soldiers during war with Japan
During the war with Japan, Russian sentries have another enemy to fight -- wolves ! Date: 1904

Irish Free State troops " taking over" from the British soldiers in Southern Ireland: the change of the sentries at Viceregal Lodge, Dublin. Date: 1922

The Letters of Eve, from the Tatler 1916
The Letters of Eve in the Tatler, being the correspondence of the Hon. Evelyn Fitzhenry with her friend, the Lady Betty Berkshire. First World War period. 1916

Palace of Prince George - Chania, Crete. Although much of modern Greece had been independent since the 1820s, Crete remained in Ottoman hands

Guard / Buckingham Palace
The entrance gateway to Buckingham Palace, London, showing one of the guardsmen on duty by the gates. These sentries are now stationed inside the courtyard

Major Richardsons sentry dogs advertisement
Advertisement for sentry and police dogs trained and supplied by Major Edwin Richardson, the renowned dog trainer, who in 1917

An Airedale sentry dog supplied to Navy by Major Richardson
A dog trained and supplied by Major Edwin Richardson for duty with the Navy at the Rock of Gibraltar and at points all around the coast

A sentry dog with the Norfolk regiment
An Airedale terrier posing with two men of the Norfolk Regiment who used him as a sentry dog. The dog was killed on the Aisne in 1914. Date: 1914

British and Italian sentries in Italy by Matania, WW1
The Dual Guard - Camerati in Armi. A town in Northern Italy where both British and Italian troops were quartered and the guarding of which was shared by both

Training dogs at the British War Dog School, WW1
Part of the training ground at the War Dog School, which trained dogs in readiness for serving at the front during First World War in various roles such as sentries and messengers

British sentries at railway tunnels at the start of WWI
Once Germany had declared war on Russia, war with France was certain to follow, with the possibility that Great Britain could be forced into the conflict too

Captain Davies encounters two German sentries, Messines
Captain Davies (1st/8th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment - TF) encounters two German sentries while on an evening reconnaissance - Messines, June 1915. Deeds That Thrill The Empire - Page 242. W. Avis

The Port of Balaklava, Crimea, 1855
Engraving showing the port of Balaklava with sentries in the foreground, warmly dressed in boots and thick coats, during the Crimean War, 1855

Thessaloniki - Palace of Prince Nicolas Date: circa 1908

Horse Guards - Whitehall, London Date: circa 1920

Martin Bomber - US Navys New Aerial Sentries of the Sea
The Martin PBM 40, 000 lb Navy Patrol Bomber - The US Navys " New Aerial Sentries of the Sea" during World War Two

Repatriation to Greece from Turkey
Greeks being allowed to returned to Greece from Turkey - 26th October 1964 - repatriations were therefore still occuring at this late date

Bermuda - Guards at the Government House Date: circa 1910s

Staff, Subs, Sentries & Surprises Silhouetted
" Staff, Subs, Sentries & Surprises Silhouetted" Silhouettes of life in the trenches. The images were cut directly with scissors from paper. Date: 1916

Guard of the Hogvakten, Stockholm, Sweden
Guard of the Hogvakten at the Royal Palace or Castle called the Kungliga Slottet in Stockholm, Sweden circa 2008

French sentry WWI
French sentry in Germany standing watch over a load of coal during World War I

New Finnish-Soviet border WWII
Finnish sentries stand on a road leading to Viborg and which has now become Soviet. The sentry on the right is equipped with a modern sub-machine gun. Finland during World War II Date: 1939-1940

British internment camp WWII
Enemy aliens internment camp in a Northern British town during World War II, a view from outside the compound. The camp is a new Northern Town housing estate which has been totally surrounded by

Rhodes, Greece - The Ancient Palace of the Chevaliers - The Italian Barracks

Sentries of the different lines of troops in Camp at Prahsu
Sentries of the different lines of troops in camp at Prah-su during the 2nd Ashanti War (1873-74). In 1873, after decades of an uneasy relationship between the British

Fort Lafayette, New York Harbour, 1865
Engraving showing the interior of Fort Lafayette, New York Harbour, during the American Civil War. This image, made in 1865, shows the sentries on duty and fortifications in place

The Mint in 1812
The new building of the Royal Mint on Tower Hill. Sentries guard it from attack - for we are at war with France, and the Irish are making trouble as are radical politicians

HAMLETs FATHERs GHOST
The ghost of Hamlets father appears on the battlements of Elsinore and alarms the sentries

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