Tommies Collection (page 3)

Royal Army Ordnance Corps Victorian period

Soldier showing his Identification Badge during WW1 Date: circa 1916

British Gunners placing a line of artillery guns during WW1 Date: circa 1916

Royal Field Artillery with commandeered horse during WW1 Date: circa 1916

Officers of the Loyal Legions in South Africa during WW1 Date: circa 1916

French 280mm Gun during WW1 Date: circa 1916

German Colonel-General von Kluck
Von Kluck commanded the right wing of the German forces in 1914. Tommies called him Old one o'clock. WW1 Date: circa 1915

Bare Knuckle Fighting - Trenches, WW1 - British Soldiers
Bare Knuckle Fighting after a hard day - Trenches, WW1 - British Soldiers enjoying themselves on the Western front in 1914. Date: 1914

British troops crossing the Channel, WW1, Aug 1914
British troops crammed onto a ship crossing the Channel bound for France and Belgium during the early weeks of the First World War. Date: 1914

And no wonder! H. M. Bateman cartoon
" And no wonder! THE DEAR OLD LADY (as the recruits march by): Dear me, how the fine weather does bring the young fellows out to be sure

British soldier eating rations at the Front, WW1
Tommys Salle A Manger at the Front. Dinner-time in a British trench where the soldiers dining room with tapestried with mud and carpeted with muddy water. Date: 1915

Advert for Thermos flasks WW1
Jolly advertisement for Thermos Flasks, an essential accessory to deal with trench life during the First World War. Thermos allows plenty of hot water for shaving

Royal Horse Artillery at Waterloo Station, WW1
Members of the R.H.A. pose for a picture together at Waterloo Station before embarking for France in August 1914. Date: 1914

Abdullah cigarettes advertisement, WW1 - trench rats
One of a series of advertisements for Abdullah cigarettes during the First World War illustrated by Lewis Baumer. This one employs the familiar image of a British Tommy dismayed to find that

Northumberland Fusiliers resting at St. Eloi, WW1
Officers and men of the famous " Fighting Fifth" (the Northumberland Fusiliers) taken immediately after the battle at St. Eloi

Trench Art lighter inscribed Les Flanders
Trench Art lighter stamped on obverse with a lion and inscribed Les Flanders with the names of Vimy, Roeux, Bullecourt on reverse. Stamped with Allied soldiers and inscribed Victorious Tommies.|

Its a long, long way to Tipperary, WW1
Words and music of the song Its a long, long way to Tipperary with a marching column of Tommies. Music by kind permission of B. Feldman & Company. Commemorative Art. Date: circa 1914

The Glorious Fifth by Bruce Bairnsfather
" Ere, Guy Fawkes - buzz off!" A cartoon by Bruce Bairnsfather, a soldier is admonished by one of his fellows for carrying around enough explosives to Guy Fawkes jealous. Date: 1916

The Candid Friend by Bruce Bairnsfather
The Candid Friend " Well, yer know, I like the photo of you in your gas mask best" A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander Date: 1916

Advert for Wrights Coal Tar Soap WW1
An advertisement for Wrights Coal Tar Soap with a British soldier holding up a towel in the hope that some nice person will send him a box of Wrights Coal Tar Soap. Date: 1915

Gallant soldiers in the thick of the fight 1916
Scots at the thick of Battle of the Somme, holding a wrecked trench and dug-out during a critical moment. Date: 1916

Sunlight soap advertisement, WW1
The CLEANEST fighter in the World - the British Tommy. Great War advertisement for Sunlight Soap manufactured by Lever Brothers

War Budget cover - 1916
Front cover of The War Budget showing a British soldier, bayonet fixed, looking determinedly into the future as a New Year - 1916 - dawns. Date: 1915

Shooting Box to Let Furnished
Amusing illustration showing a sign which had genuinely been hung outside a dug-out in France. A photograph of it had been sent to its former tenant, a soldier in Llandudno Red Cross Hospital

The War Budget - Tommies in gas masks
Front cover of The War Budget. Two British soldiers amuse a young woman when returning home on leave by sporting a gas mask. Date: 1916

The War Budget - British Tommy reads letter from home
Front cover of The War Budget featuring illustration of a British soldier, dressed for winter with a fur or goatskin gherkin, seated contemplating a photograph of his wife or sweetheart. Date: 1916

The War Budget - black British soldier
Front cover of The War Budge featuring a photograph of a black British soldier grinning widely. Date: 1916

The War Budget - Christmas 1915
Front cover of The War Budget, Christmas 1915, showing a British soldier sitting in a trench next to a brazier as he opens a parcel of Christmas food sent from home. Date: 1915

British soldiers in a trench
Three British Tommies eat a basic meal in a trench, using a crate as a makeshift table, on the Western Front. Date: 1932

Donkey wearing a pickelhaube, 1917
A captured donkey, sporting a pickelhaube, is gleefully paraded by some British soldiers during World War One. 1917

The Soldiers and Sailors Buffet at Victoria Station
Impression of a crowded scene at Victoria Station as men arriving on the leave train, or else departing for the Front, are given free refreshments from the Soldiers and Sailors Free Buffet

Swan Pen advertisement, WW1
First World War advertisement for Swan Pens featuring humorous cartoon. " We calls im The President. " Ows that

La Baionnette cover - French impression of British officer
Front cover design for La Baionnette, an issue focusing on the British Tommy. Showing a stereotypical English soldier in khaki uniform, smoking a pipe. Date: 1916

Cartoon, Humour, WW1
Cartoon, Humour, showing two fashionable French women chatting with an English soldier. They say it must bother him to kill Germans. He replies no, they ve been used to it for a long time. Date: 1916

Cartoon, Epic song, WW1
Cartoon, Epic song. A pretty French woman sits at a table, with four British soldiers hovering nearby. She says its typically the soldier she likes the look of most who doesn t understand French

Cartoon, During the bombardment, WW1
Cartoon, During the bombardment. A British soldier eats from a hamper during a bombing raid. He tells another soldier, Jim, that when he eats quickly he gets the hiccups -- can he suggest a remedy

Captain tasting the mens dinner on Christmas day
Cooking the plum pudding in a German steel helmet - A Christmas Scene in a British dug-out at the front. 1916

Illustrated London News Christmas Number 1914 WW1
The Illustrated London News Christmas Number 1914 with an illustration by Samuel Begg showing a British soldier holding a huge, steaming Christmas pudding decorated with Allied flags and holly

Stiff by H. M. Bateman, WW1 cartoon
Hilarious sequential cartoon by H. M. Bateman showing a French soldier unable to move the crank on the front of an officers car

Christmas card by H L Oakley for the 32nd Division, Dec 1918
Christmas 1918 - " We re Still Smiling". Christmas card produced by H L Oakley for the 32nd Division in December 1918 after the conclusion of WW1. Date: 1918

After a meal in a British trench 1915
A peaceful pipe before another spell of duty. 1915

The Irrespressibles by J. H. Thorpe
Xmas 1913 - and 1914, but still smiling. The irrepressible spirit of the British Tommy illustrated by J. H. Thorpe in December 1914. Date: 1914

WW1 - British Tommies welcomed on arrival in France Date: 1914

Inter-Allied Fraternisation - British and French in Flanders
WW1 - Inter-Allied Fraternisation - The Friends of Today, not the Foes of Waterloo - British and French soldiers fraternising in Flanders. Date: 1915

Inter-Allied Fraternisation - Paris Cafe - WW1. British Tommies chat to their French counterparts and colonial French troops from Dominique. Date: 1915

British bombing party clear trenches near Roeux
" Forward the Bombers!" - British bombing party clear Germans from their trenches near Roeux. The attacks on the village of Roeux were part of the Battle of Arras (9th April - 17th May 1917)

At the Brewery Baths by Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon
" You chuck another sardine at me, my lad, and you ll hear from my solicitors." High jinks in a brewery on the Western Front utilised as a baths for British soldiers

A Countess Gave me a cup of tea, WW1 soldier & canteen
A First World War soldier received a cup of tea from an aristocratic lady in a nurses uniform. Canteening was one of the favourite voluntary occupations of well-born women during the Great War

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