Uniforms Collection

British Military Poster - Inter-war period
Smart Men Wanted, rates of pay for soldiers enlisted or re-enlisted, Scots Guards, on or after 26 October 1925. Coloured chromolithograph recruitment poster after A W Baylis, 1925

Police Group 1864
Group of police officers wearing combed back helmets, in use between 1864 and 1870. Metropolitan Police

Police Officer London
Police officer on duty in London with a George Vi helmet plate Metropolitan Police

The Royal Logistic Corps. The Royal Logistic Corps (RLC) was formed in 1993, by the union of the following British Army corps: Royal Corps of Transport, Royal Army Ordnance Corps

Police Officers London
Police officers wearing old and new uniforms. On left wearing 1980 uniform, on right the old from the period 1959-1980 Metropolitan Police in London near Houses of Parliament

Recruitment poster for the WaC and WRNS
First World War recruitment poster for the WaC (Womens Army Auxiliary Corps) and WRNS (Womens Royal Naval Service). circa 1917

Olympics / 1912 / Pole Vault
Pole Vault: MS Wright, USA

British Military Recruitment Poster, WWI
His Majestys Coldstream Guards, God Save the King. Chromolithograph recruitment poster after Ernest Ibbetson, 1914. Showing central group in various uniforms

Queen Elizabeth II salutes
The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh salute at the gates of Buckingham Palace, at the close of the Trooping of the Colour ceremony. 1953

WW1 poster, Types of the British Army, Dismounted Branches, showing the various uniforms. Date: 1914-1918

The Queen reviews the Grenadier Guards
At the tercentenary parade of the Grenadier Guards at Windsor, the Queen turns to speak to Colonel Sir Thomas Butler, Lieutenant-Colonel of the Regiment. Date: 1956

Nicolas Ii / George V Phot
KING GEORGE V OF ENGLAND With Czar Nicholas II of Russia in full military dress

Signing of the Armistice, Compiegne, France, WW1
Signing of the Armistice in the carriage of Marshal Fochs private train, Compiegne, France, marking the end of the First World War. Illustration by F Chamouin. 1918

The two eldest daughters of the Tsar on horseback
The Colonel of Hussards, Olga and the Colonel of Uhlans, Tatiana, the two young grand-duchesses and eldest daughters of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, on horseback with their father

Manfred Von Richthofen
MANFRED VON RICHTHOFEN Known as the " Red Baron", " Red Devil" and " Red Knight of Germany" ; he was Germanys greatest WWI pilot

Card celebrating 20 years of Czechoslovakia (1918 - 1938)

The Queen as Captain-General
In her role as Captain-General of the Honourable Artillery Company, the Queen presents new colours to Lieutenant F.H.B Layfield, right (Queens Colour) and Lieutenant J.S. Teakle (Regimental Colour)

Training Ship Exmouth, dumb bell drill
Uniformed boys on the deck of the Training Ship Exmouth perform dumb bell drill. The Exmouth, moored off Grays in Essex, was used by the Metropolitan Asylums Board as a naval training establishment

We Are Not Downhearted by H. T. Hardy
World War One postcard showing a a group of children, dressed in the uniforms of French, British, Russian and Belgian soldiers, arm in arm and holding their individual countrys flags

Types of Territorials
Types of the Territorial Army wearing their various uniforms including the Highland Light Infantry (far left), Rifle Brigade and Royal Engineers

Imperial Stag Hunt
Imperial Stage Hunt in the Forest of Compiegne. Huntsmen and women, dressed in red and green follow the hounds who have a stag in their sights

Horse drawn fire engine
A horse drawn fire engine

Inspector Alice B Clayden and her brothers, London
Woman police officer, Inspector Alice Bertha Clayden, with her three brothers (together with Sergeant Henry Pegler) in the yard of Crawford Place Police Station, London W1 -- the brothers are

Woman police officer, Inspector Lily Dawes, London
A woman police officer, Inspector Lily Dawes, at Kennington, London, wearing belted jacket (summer uniform), helmet with badge, white shirt and tie, and duty armband. Date: 1933

2nd Regiment of Life Guards
A group of 2nd Regiment of Life Guards, was a cavalry regiment in the British Army, part of the Household Cavalry. Date: 1894

Woman police officer attending an accident where a man appears to have fallen off a ladder. She is speaking into her hand-held radio. Date: circa 1970s

Woman police officer in new Surrey uniform
Woman police officer (Eileen Greenwood) in the new Surrey uniform introduced in 1973. The jacket was single-breasted with four buttons, and the hat was in black and white with a checked design

Woman police officer in Hartnell uniform, London
Woman police officer (Margaret Miles) in a London street, wearing the new style Norman Hartnell uniform, introduced in 1968. Date: circa late 1960s

Two women police officers and woman with suitcase
Two women police officers (Jean Grasy and Margaret Findlay or Knight), one of them a sergeant, talking to a young woman with a suitcase on a London street. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1960s

Woman police officer, Inspector Alice B Clayden, London
Woman police officer, Inspector Alice Bertha Clayden, London. She also had three brothers in the police force. In 1922, during the period of the so-called Geddes Axe when the government of the day

Inspector Alice B Clayden outside Buckingham Palace
Woman police officer, Inspector Alice Bertha Clayden, outside Buckingham Palace on 2 January 1928. Her brother Sergeant Alfred William Clayden (second from left)

Inspector Alice B Clayden outside Buckingham Palace
Woman police officer, Inspector Alice Bertha Clayden (second from right), outside Buckingham Palace on 2 January 1928. Her brother Sergeant Alfred William Clayden (second from left)

Policemen in station parade room, London
Four policemen stand ready in their uniforms, with notebooks, whistles and truncheons, in the station parade room at Ruislip, north west London, watched by their commanding officer

Telegram Boys 1930S
A line-up of smart young telegraph boys with immaculate uniforms and highly polished shoes

Three American soldiers, Camp Dodge, Iowa, WW1
Three American soldiers (known as Doughboys) at Camp Dodge, Iowa, USA, during the First World War, with 1917 Enfield rifles

Womens uniforms and badges, WW2
Badges and uniforms of women serving in the Second World War, including WRENS, ATS and WaF. Date: 1940

Kaiser & German royal family - Deaths Head Hussars, WW1
Kaiser Wilhelm II (top left), together with his eldest son, the Crown Prince, his only daughter Princess Viktoria Luise, Duchess of Brunswick and the Crown Princess

Types from Belgian Army
Types of the Belgian army: carbinier, infantry of the line, artillery, guide and grenadier Date: World War One

Uniform for School Team. Southwark Training Centre

Metropolitan Fire Brigade helmet
Metropolitan Fire Brigade brass helmet, used until replaced by a cork version in the 1930s

LCC-LFB Fireman in his fire kit with new cork helmet
A London fireman in his fire kit, including the new style compressed cork helmet with its LFB crest, which replaced the traditional brass helmets used since the days of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade

LCC-LFB Breathing apparatus communications set
A Sub Officer from Lambeths (D61) emergency tender crew demonstrating the Southampton communications equipment that was worn with a full face mask on the Proto (oxygen) breathing apparatus set

Officer, 1st Royal Regiment of Dragoons
An officer of the First or Royal Regiment of Dragoons in uniform. He is mounted and carrying a sword. The plate is entitled Advancing to the Charge

Police Officers
Group of police officers wearing the combed back helmet, in use between 1864 and 1870

Short S-29 Stirling B-1
An RAF Short Stirling Heavy Bomber with Pilot, Air & Ground Crew. it Has a Top Speed of 280Mph, a Loaded Weight of 70, 000Lb, a Wingpan of 99 Feet and a Length of 87 Feet 3 Inches Date: 1942

German cartoon on British recruitment techniques
A cartoon from the German satirical magazine, Lustige Blatter reproduced in The Tatler suggesting that the famous recruitment posters did not persuade men to join up and that instead

Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (1895 - 1918), eldest daughter of the Tsar Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna wearing the unifom of Colonel-In-Chief of the 3rd Regiment of Uhlans of

Tatler front cover, Horse Guards, 1958
Front cover of The Tatler magazine featuring a picture of the Queens horses on their daily march past Wellington Arch and down the Mall for the Changing of the Guard ceremony

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