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The Bombardment of the Hartlepools - James Clark Date: 1914
WWI - Battle of Champagne - Spent shell casingsWWI - Spent shell cases from just one battery after the first day of the Battle of Champagne (25th-30th September 1915) Date: 1915
In the Famous Plug Street Wood by MataniaA relief party marching back to the trenches through Ploegstreet Wood (known as Plug Street), south of Ypres
H. M.s Curacoa 1865Conflicts with the savages of the New Hebrides, South Pacific Ocean. H.M.S Curacoa shelling the native villages on the island of Tanna
Periscopes in TrenchesWith shells bursting overhead and trench mortar ready, Seaforth Highlanders watch through a periscope for the Germans
Lone British gunner near Mons, Belgium, WW1The Last Gunner -- a lone British gunner of the Royal Field Artillery in action near Mons, Belgium, during the First World War. He carried on valiantly after all his colleagues had fallen
Where Did That One Go To? by Bruce BairnsfatherThe very first cartoon published in The Bystander by Bruce Bairnsfather (later Captain) of the 1st Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
WW1 - French 400 mm railway howitzer and artillery squadronWW1 - Camo de mailly - French 400 mm railway howitzer and artillery squadron. The outbreak of the First World War caught the French with a shortage of heavy field artillery
Shelling Mussels / 1906Shelling mussels, Cromasty, Scotland Date: 1906
Canadian gunners, Battle of Vimy Ridge, France, WW1Canadian gunners firing a 6 inch Howitzer during the Battle of Vimy Ridge, northern France, during the First World War. Date: April 1917
Volley firing by Scott Method by G. H. DavisThe gunnery experiment of which all the naval world is talking: the six-to-one superiority of volley firing by the Scott Method
Ducks and Green Peas by Miss E Mitchell" Ducks and Green Peas" by Miss E Mitchell. A girl shells peas while ducklings cluster round her hoping to eat some of the fallers. Date: 1890
Baptist chapel in Hartlepool hit by German east coast raid - WWIThe Baptist Chapel in Hartlepool (now situated in an area called The Headland and sometimes known as Old Hartlepool)
Comic postcard, British soldier on Western Front, with shells flying overhead. Date: 1914-1918
Comic postcard, Scottish soldier on the Western Front Date: 1914-1918
WW1 - View across the Douve Valley shelling Messines - 8th June 1917
YMCA hut after recent shelling during WW1
A YMCA hut in France after recent shelling during WW1
India - Cashmere shelling rice early 1900s
EruptionAn etching showing an explosive eruption, probably from shelling, the background is filled with broken trees from war damage. Date: circa 1918
Star Shells On The YserThis etching shows the shelling around the River Yser from World War 1, the river flows through Belgium and France. Date: circa 1916
WW II - American marine 155 howitzer gun OkinawaVintage photograph World War II - American marine 155 howitzer gun shelling Jaapanese on Okinawa
Malines Cathedral damaged by German shell, WW1Malines (Mechelen) Cathedral, Belgium, damaged by German shell fire, 3 September 1914, at the start of the First World War. 1914
British waddling ships shelling Belgian coast, WW1British waddling ships shelling the Belgian coast, First World War. 1914-1918
A Nice Conclusion, by William Heath Robinson, WW1Cartoon, A Nice Conclusion, by William Heath Robinson, First World War. Enemy aviator (beginning to realise) -- Himmel! Surely I the zone of fire approaching be. circa 1918
Spy Farm, Rue de Bois, RE store destroyed by shell fire, WW1Spy Farm, Rue de Bois, another RE store, destroyed by shell fire, 26th January 1915. A considerable amount of constructive woodwork was stored here
Madagascar - Shelling (De-husking) Rice Date: circa 1906
Cartoon, After the explosion, WW1Cartoon, After the explosion. A naive new recruit in a trench on the Western Front comments that these shells break as soon as they hit the ground! Date: 1916
Situation Shortly Vacant by BairnsfatherHumours from the Front - No 32 Situation Shortly Vacant In an old-established house in France an opening will shortly occur for a young man
Gallipoli - bringing in horses by Matania, WW1Telegraph work in Gallipoli - an unrecorded incident of individual bravery
Humorous postcard, soldier on Western Front, WW1Humorous postcard, British soldier on the Western Front -- I m amongst the Kitcheners, and very nice too. Date: circa 1915
Cartoon, Two Horses, WW1Cartoon, Two Horses on the Western Front, hearing explosions. One horse asks the other: Doesn t all this noise scare you? The other horse replies: No, I m used to it
Gunners sheltering during a bombardment, 1917, MataniaWith our artist on the Western Front - No II. New Series
Map of the East Coast Bombardments, WW1A map of the North East coast of Britain, showing Hartlepool, Whitby and Scarborough, the scene of shelling by German battle cruisers in December 1914
British shell cases, Western Front, France, WW1Empty British shell cases after their contents have been fired on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916
French artillery, Battle of the Marne, France, WW1French artillery in action with a 75 mm field gun during the Marne and Aisne campaigns, France, First World War. Date: September-October 1914
German battleship, Battle of Jutland, WW1German battleship during the Battle of Jutland, First World War, with guns firing and shell cases scattered on the deck. Date: 1916
Aerial photograph of shell holes, Ypres, Belgium, WW1Aerial photograph (British) of a large number of shell holes in the Ypres district, Belgium, during the First World War. Date: 30 September 1917
Rolls Royce armoured car being shelled, WW1A Rolls Royce armoured car belonging to the Dunsterforce, with explosions from shelling in the background, during the First World War. 1917-1918
Aerial view of the damaged town centre of Termonde, BelgiumWW1 - poat-war - Aerial view of the damaged town centre of Termonde, Belgium. Date: circa 1919
American Superfortresses bombing Burma, WW2American 20th US Bomber Command Superfortresses bombing a Japanese supply depot near Rangoon, Burma, in March 1945 during the Second World War. Date: 1945
WW1 - Journalists greeted by German shells at ReimsJournalists (chosen by the French government) are greeted by German shells at Reims! Date: 1915
Cartoon, A failure, WW1Cartoon, A failure. Two French soldiers coming out of a cafe remark that a shell has fallen in the middle of the street, avoiding all the African soldiers fighting with the German army
Sphere cover - East Coast bombardments, Hartlepool chapelThe bombardment of the East Coast - the scene outside a Hartlepool Baptist Chapel. Scene painted by Fortunino Matania based on a sketch by fellow Sphere artist, G. H
The Advance into Holland, WW2The Advance into Holland during the Second World War -- the Second Armys dash towards Nijmegen and Arnhem, and the crossing of the Belgian and Dutch water lines
The New Mortar for Bridging Chasms, Heath Robinson WW1America in the Field - The new mortar for bridging chasms. A line of American soldiers traverse a chasm chained on wheeled chairs to a shell sent flying into the air
Coffee ranch in the state of Veracruz, Mexico. The inset image shows a native worker shelling the beans. Date: circa 1895
WW1 - Zeppelins raid over Paris, France, 1915WW1 - A failed night raid attack over Paris, where enemy airships are under attack from shells and searchlights from below
WW1 - British field-artillery shelling a Turkish fortWW1 - The British field-artillery advancement and shelling of one of the Turkish forts in Dardanelles
WW1 - The Campaign in The Dardanelles, 1915WW1 - Soldiers in action using heavy artilllery and firearms. Shelling one of the forts on the Gallipoli Peninsula. The troops make slow but steady progress towards Constantinpole. Date: 1915
WW2 greetings card, Shelling a British Convoy from the French Coast, by Charles Pears, official war picture from the National Gallery. Date: circa 1942
WW1 damage at Dormans - Saint-Hippolyte ChurchTwo young boys pose amid the damage at Dormans, Marne, France showing the ruined Saint-Hippolyte Church following heavy fighting in the village during WW1
Bruce Bairnsfather cartoon, Where did that one go to?Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon, Where did that one go to?, published in the Bystander, 1916. Date: 1916
They ve evidently seen me by Bruce BairnsfatherThey ve evidently seen me. A British soldier, precariously peering out the top of a chimney pot, binoculars in hand, is narrowly missed by an enemy shell
Who d Have Thought It?, by BairnsfatherWho d Have Thought It? " Struth, Bert! Good Job we saw that notice!" A cartoon in The Bystander by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather
Restraint on Anticipation, by BairnsfatherRestraint on Anticipation " I see as its security for the future we re a-fightin for, Alf" " A little o that on account, now, wouldn t be a bad idea
British Gunners under fireA British artillery battery, on its way to take up a position further forward, is stopped in its tracks by an enemy shell which lands in the road immediately ahead. Date: July 1917
Trench Scene- Easier Said than DoneA shell if falling near a trench, while one soldier has hiccups, and is asking the soldier on the right " Say or doing something to startle me, Arry"
The Shrapnel-proof HelmetTHE SHRAPNEL-PROOF HELMET. What it feels like during plenty of shelling. What it feels like on the march
Howitzers shelling German positions, WW1Battlefield panorama showing a battery of Howitzers shelling German positions at Cambrai in 1918. By Lieutenant Douglas Sharpus Andrews, SGA, ARCA (1885-1944), Royal Garrison Artillery. 1918
That evening star-shell - BairnsfatherCartoon, That evening star-shell. Oh, star of eve, whose tender beam falls on my spirits troubled dream. From Fragments from France - No. 5, published by The Bystander in 1916
Cartoon, Coiffure in the Trenches, WW1Cartoon, Coiffure in the Trenches. Keep yer ead still, or I ll ave yer blinkin ear off. By Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, 1st Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment (1888-1959)
Shelled house in Northern France, WW1The effects of shelling on a dwelling in North France with the house cut in half by bombardment but with stairs and some furniture still left intact, enabling it to be occupied by French troops
British padre with elderly woman, Western Front, WW1A British padre helping an elderly local woman down the street of a town during shelling, on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916
German shell exploding, Western Front, France, WW1German shell exploding in a field on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916
British troops watching shelling, Western Front, WW1British troops watching shelling on German trenches on the Western Front in France (Somme advance) during World War One. Date: circa 1916
British troops caught in shelling, Western Front, WW1British troops caught in shelling on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916
British gunners in action in the rain, Western Front, WW1British gunners in action against the Germans in the pouring rain on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916
British bombarding German trenches, Western Front, WW1British troops bombarding German trenches on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916
British gunners in action, Western Front, WW1British gunners in action during the German offensive on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916
Zeppelins aerial torpedo by G. H. DavisThe Zeppelins aerial torpedo: the appearance of the new missile. Top left: the launching cradle, showing firing pistol. Top right: the aerial torpedo with its turbine at rear end
Britains bomb progress by G. H. DavisBritains bomb progress during the Second World War: from 500-pounder to a 12, 000-pound factory buster. Date: 1944
Coping with effects of bomb blast by G. H. DavisThe effects of bomb blast: how research and experiment have helped to cope with this vital problem during the Second World War. Date: 1941
Second British action in Narvik harbour by G. H. DavisThe spearhead of the Royal Navys second attack advancing on Narvik, putting the enemy destroyers to flight
Loading ships guns in 1805 and 1935 by G. H. DavisFrom Nelson to Nelson : feeding a ships guns today and in 1805. Loading methods in a modern battleship and at Trafalgar: contrasts after 130 years of naval gunnery. Date: 1935
Shell bursting on front line trench, Western Front, WW1A shell bursting on a front line trench on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916
Shell hole on road, Western Front, France, WW1A shell hole in a road on the Western Front in France during World War One. It was the result of a British shell striking the road near a German ammunition wagon
The great Sylt raid by G. H. DavisThe great Sylt raid: a bomber attacks in the glare of searchlights, flaming onions and bursting star shells
British night bombers by G. H. DavisBritish night bombers encounter flaming onions, as in the raid on Sylt -- a type of incendiary anti-aircraft shell used in the First World War, reintroduced by the Germans in the Second World War
Belgian soldiers watching German shell fire, WW1Belgian soldiers watching German shell fire on a street in the village of Grembergen, East Flanders, during the First World War
Cartoon, Krupps New Man-Throwing Howitzer, WW1Cartoon, Surprises in Store for England, 1. Krupps New Man-Throwing Howitzer. An imaginary scene showing German soldiers standing inside shell casings, ready to be fired at the enemy
Damage from SMS Emden in Madras, India, WWIDamaged building in Madras (now Chennai), India, after shelling by German light cruiser SMS Emden on 22nd September 1914 during World War One. Date: 22nd September 1914
WW1 - Damage to the Synagogue at Thann, Alsace, FranceWW1 - The Synagogue at Thann, Alsace, France - The synagogue and bathhouse were heavily damaged by shelling during the First World War Date: 1915
WW1 era - Panorama of Thessaloniki - showing bent minaretWW1 era - Panorama of Thessaloniki - showing a minaret of one of the mosques damaged by a shell. Date: circa 1916
