Shelling Collection

The Bombardment of the Hartlepools - James Clark Date: 1914

WWI - Battle of Champagne - Spent shell casings
WWI - 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 Matania
A relief party marching back to the trenches through Ploegstreet Wood (known as Plug Street), south of Ypres. The scarred trees lining the soldiers route bear the scars of shelling

H. M.s Curacoa 1865
Conflicts 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 Trenches
With shells bursting overhead and trench mortar ready, Seaforth Highlanders watch through a periscope for the Germans

WW1 - French 400 mm railway howitzer and artillery squadron
WW1 - 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

Where Did That One Go To? by Bruce Bairnsfather
The very first cartoon published in The Bystander by Bruce Bairnsfather (later Captain) of the 1st Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment

Canadian gunners, Battle of Vimy Ridge, France, WW1
Canadian 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. Davis
The gunnery experiment of which all the naval world is talking: the six-to-one superiority of volley firing by the Scott Method

Shelling Mussels / 1906
Shelling mussels, Cromasty, Scotland Date: 1906

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 - WWI
The Baptist Chapel in Hartlepool (now situated in an area called The Headland and sometimes known as Old Hartlepool), located on the corner of Baptist Street and Regent Street

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

Eruption
An 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 Yser
This 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 Okinawa
Vintage photograph World War II - American marine 155 howitzer gun shelling Jaapanese on Okinawa

Malines Cathedral damaged by German shell, WW1
Malines (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, WW1
British waddling ships shelling the Belgian coast, First World War. 1914-1918

A Nice Conclusion, by William Heath Robinson, WW1
Cartoon, 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, WW1
Spy 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

Aerial view of the damaged town centre of Termonde, Belgium
WW1 - poat-war - Aerial view of the damaged town centre of Termonde, Belgium. Date: circa 1919

Cartoon, After the explosion, WW1
Cartoon, 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 Bairnsfather
Humours 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, WW1
Telegraph work in Gallipoli - an unrecorded incident of individual bravery. Two men of the 1st Royal Munster Fusiliers bringing two uninjured horses back to British lines during a severe Turkish

Humorous postcard, soldier on Western Front, WW1
Humorous postcard, British soldier on the Western Front -- I m amongst the Kitcheners, and very nice too. Date: circa 1915

Cartoon, Two Horses, WW1
Cartoon, 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, Matania
With our artist on the Western Front - No II. New Series. Front cover of The Sphere featuring the first of a new set of drawings done by the magazines special artist during his latest visit to

British shell cases, Western Front, France, WW1
Empty 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, WW1
French artillery in action with a 75 mm field gun during the Marne and Aisne campaigns, France, First World War. Date: September-October 1914

Lone British gunner near Mons, Belgium, WW1
The 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

German battleship, Battle of Jutland, WW1
German battleship during the Battle of Jutland, First World War, with guns firing and shell cases scattered on the deck. Date: 1916

Rolls Royce armoured car being shelled, WW1
A Rolls Royce armoured car belonging to the Dunsterforce, with explosions from shelling in the background, during the First World War. 1917-1918

American Superfortresses bombing Burma, WW2
American 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 Reims
Journalists (chosen by the French government) are greeted by German shells at Reims! Date: 1915

Cartoon, A failure, WW1
Cartoon, 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 chapel
The 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, WW2
The 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 WW1
America 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, 1915
WW1 - 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 fort
WW1 - The British field-artillery advancement and shelling of one of the Turkish forts in Dardanelles. The narrow peninsula amongst the ranges of high hill or small mountains make it safe for

WW1 - The Campaign in The Dardanelles, 1915
WW1 - 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 Church
Two young boys pose amid the damage at Dormans, Marne, France showing the ruined Saint-Hippolyte Church following heavy fighting in the village during WW1

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