Sniper Collection

Irish soldier in a trench, Mesopotamia, WW1
A soldier with the Royal Irish Fusiliers (Faugh-a-Ballagh) in a trench in Mesopotamia (now Iraq), teases a Turkish sniper by raising a pith helmet on his rifle during the First World War

WW1 - Italian Propaganda postcard
" Our plan!" - WW1 - Italian Propaganda postcard, showing the personification of Italy (as a Bersaglieri Sharpshooter) punching Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary

WW1 Tommies in a trench

FEDERAL SENTINEL
A Federal sentry is shot by a Secessionist sniper : such methods of fighting were considered most ungentlemanly and contrary to accepted standards of military conduct. Date: 1861

US Civil War Sharpshooter, poised in a tree with his rifle. Date: 1862

Lee Enfield Mk I. 303 in bolt action sniper rifle, 1916 (c). Privately converted to a parapet rifle and fitted with a Fulton target grade barrel. Associated with World War One (1914-1918)

English dum-dum bullets found at Margival, France, WW1
English dum-dum bullets and part of their packaging found in a dugout at Margival, northern France, during the First World War. Date: circa 1917

Dummy heads rising above the side of a trench, WW1
Four dummy heads of British soldiers rising above the side of a trench during the First World War, to deceive potential snipers. Date: 1914-1918

WW2 - British sniper watching for enemy movement in Caen
Photograph: British sniper watching for enemy movement in Caen, 1944 - Associated with World War Two, North West Europe (1944-1945). Collected by Mr L Simpson, 1945 (c). Date: 1944

Sniper in tree en route to Morogoro, East Africa, WW1
Sniper in tree en route to Morogoro, East Africa (now in Tanzania), during WW1. 1916

German sniper WWI
German sniper in a trench on the Western Front during World War I

The Three Musketeers - Canadian sharpshooters, WW1
" The Three Musketeers" of Princess Patricias Own (Princess Patricias Canadian Light Infantry) firing from a mound with a fine view of the German first line trenches

They ve evidently seen me by Bruce Bairnsfather
They 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

Never Again! by Bairnsfather
Never Again! " In future I snipe from the ground" A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander. A German sniper, stationed in a tree

A Visit to the Alpini - 19? by Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1
The war was over some time ago, but this man hasn t heard about it yet, and nobody can get up to tell him. His sniping is therefore very annoying to that Austrian village in the valley

Searching for a German sniper in ruined farmhouse
British soldiers searching for a German sniper in the ruins of a farmhouse within the firing line on the Western Front. Date: 1916

SNIPER: Watch me let daylight into that thick skull of his
SNIPER. Watch me let daylight into that thick skull of his. 386202 Acting Sergeant Herbert Gibson, Mm, 1St Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. Born September 1889

The Easter Rising, 1916: British troops under fire
The Battle of Dublin : British soldiers opening fire on the Sinn Feiners, who are sniping from houses 200 yards away. Date: 1916

Japanese snipers in an advanced position in southern China during the Sino-Japanese War Date: 1937-1945

Former Colonial Moroccan Rifleman - with Arab Medal
Former Colonial Moroccan Rifleman - with Franco-Arab Service Medal. Date: circa 1910s

Senegalese Sharpshooters - Medical Team Date: circa 1910

Senegalese Sharpshooter - WWI era. Date: circa 1916

Italian Sharpshooter (Bersaglieri)
Italian Sharpshooter ( Bersaglieri ) holding his rifle.. Date: circa 1910s

Italian Sharpshooter on a bicycle
A mobile member of the Italian Army - a cycling sharpshooter Date: circa 1910s

Chinese Soldier, 1937
A Chinese soldier during the Second Sino-Japanese war: a private of the modernised armies maintained by the central Government of China. Date: August 1937

Two British soldiers shooting from behind a wall, WW1
Two British soldiers shooting from behind a brick wall, somewhere on the Western Front during the First World War. Debris from ruined buildings can be seen across the road from them. Date: 1914-1918

Italian Sharpshooter - World War One era
Italian propaganda postacrd depicting a poised Sharpshooter - World War One era. The caption translates as: For King and Fatherland: this is the ideal of the Sharpshooters Date: circa 1916s

Elderly Sniper - North West Frontier Province
Elderly Tribesman Sniper - North West Frontier Province

Sniper Monument at Syracuse, New Jersey, USA, erected in 1905 to honour the contributions of Civil War veteran Gustavus A. Sniper (1836-1894), a German immigrant

Sniping at Bois Grenier 1914
Captain Moorhouse of the 2nd Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders sniping at Bois Grenier on the Western Front in France during World War I in November 1914

Looking for the daring German sniper: British soldiers engaged in locating one of the enemys sharpshooters

German Sniper in a tree, Normandy, 1944
Illustration showing a German sniper, suspended in a tree by a parachute-style attachment, taking aim at nearby Allied troops, Normandy, 1944

Sniper Post Cartoon
The Competitive Spirit Should be Encouraged - A novel approach to this idea in this cartoon, as British troops turn a Snipers Post into a Try Your Luck shooting alley

Napoleon in Danger
At the battle of Aspern- Essling, he is warned not to expose himself to a Prussian sniper

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