Volunteer Collection (page 3)

Personalities at the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve banquet caricatured by Fred May. Pictured are C. I. H. Concannon, Charles Hipwood, Lord Chelmsford, Air Vice Marshal Sir Philip Garrie

Female ambulance staff training volunteers, September 1939
An " ambulance girl" in full uniform explains the operation of the gas mask to two female volunteers in the newly formed All-India Ambulance unit

Men painting warning signs for unexploded bombs, Sept 1939
ARP volunteers painting wooden boards with; " keep clear unexploded bomb" to be used as a warning to civilians when a bomb fails to explode. Date: 1939

Volunteer mine-sweeper trainees lowering weight, Sept 1939
Volunteer mine-sweeper trainees lowering a weight over the side of a boat to keep their paravane at the correct depth. Volunteers, most commonly fishermen

Volunteer mine-sweepers in training, Sept 1939
A scheme to train fisherman as volunteer mine-sweepers began in 1938 and was used to allow the navy to concentrate elswhere

First voluntary ambulance service 1939
The first voluntary ambulance service, " All India", photographed soon after its formation in London by Indian doctors and medical students. The volunteers wear helmets and carry gas masks

Womens Land Army volunteers in training, September 1939
Volunteers for the Womens Land Army learning basic agricultural skills, courtesy of the East Sussex Agricultural College. The Sphere comments on the health benefits of country life. 1939

Army volunteers on manoeuvres, Salisbury Plain
Army volunteers on manoeuvres in full dress uniform on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, August 1900. 1900

CIV City of London Volunteer Force, Boer War
The CIV City of London Volunteer Force triumphant in the Boer War return to London, October 1900. 1900

W G Cahill, Chief Commissioner, Queensland Police
Major William Geoffrey Cahill (1854-1931) VD (Volunteer Officers Decoration), Chief Commissioner (1905-1917), Queensland Police Force, Australia. Date: circa 1900s

Front page of the Military Mail, 4 December 1903
Front page of the Military Mail and Volunteer Review for 4 December 1903, showing advertisements, with a photo of guards in Whitehall, London, in the middle

Creole Volunteer Soldiers Debark at Fort-de-France
The debarkment at Fort-de-France of Creole volunteer troops from Martinique returning from fighting in Mexico. Squadrons of soldiers gather by the shore, waiting to move off. Date: 1865

General Strike - volunteer driving electric tube train
The General Strike - a volunteer driving an electric tube train on the Metropolitan underground railway. 1926

Lady Sclater and volunteers, War Workroom Fund, doing useful work for hospitals at home and abroad during the First World War. circa 1917

Boot mending at Scaynes Hill Womens Institute, WW1
Boot mending at Scaynes Hill Womens Institute, West Sussex, during the First World War. 1914-1918

General Strike - Varsity undergraduate volunteers
The General Strike - Varsity undergraduate volunteers manning the signal box at LMS Bletchley. 1926

Refreshments in a London street after a night raid, WW2
Refreshments in a London street after a night raid during the Second World War, no doubt including a warming and fortifying hot Bovril drink. Date: 1940s

Volunteer soldier with rifle on a comic greetings card with verse. Date: circa 1850s

James Caulfield, 1st Earl of Charlemont (1728-1799), Irish statesman, Commander in Chief of the Volunteer Force of Ireland. 18th century

Lafayettes reception by George Washington
The Marquis de Lafayettes reception by George Washington in Philadelphia, USA. 1777

Cavalry Soldier Horseback Canon
Cover illustration: The battle of Dorking : reminiscences of a volunteer bySir George Tomkyns Chesney, 1830-1895.Rare Book: Blackwood, 1871. Date: 1871

Enrolling the City of London volunteers on New Years day, at the Guildhall for service in South Africa. Date: January 1900

Taking the Oath to join the British Army 1901
British military oath taken in front of a magistrate, during the Second Boer War. Date: 1901

Goodyear Blimp NC-8A Volunteer in the late 1930s Volunteer (I) (NC-8A)First flight: April 27, 1929Volume: 86, 000 cu. ft.Length: 128 ft.Diameter: 36 ft.Engines

French aristocrats volunteer to join the army of the Republic Date: circa 1792

Military Mail and Volunteer Review 1903

Volunteer Date: 1887

Plymouth
A typical scene in the Blitzed city of Plymouth. The Corps of Canadian Fire-fighters (also known as the Volunteer Corps of Canadian Fire-fighters and simply as CCCF)

Training from a tower
One of the slightly more hazardous aspects of training was from the tower. The Corps of Canadian Fire-fighters (also known as the Volunteer Corps of Canadian Fire-fighters and simply as CCCF)

Recruiting for the British Army for the Boar War 1901
Men at St Martin-in-the-Fields near Trafalgar Square, London, reading a notice-board for recruitment for the British Army attended for the Second Boer War

WOMEN VOLUNTEERS 1861
THE VOLUNTEER MOVEMENT The scene at Wimbledon Camp when the whole family - ladies included - join the Volunteer Movement Date: 1861

Fund Committee in Coventry 1861
Meeting with distressed ribbon weavers, Relief Fund Committee was held in the kitchen of St. Marys Hall, Coventry, due to the cotton famine. Date: 1861

HMS Buzzard (a Nymphe-class composite screw sloop) - Royal Navy Training Ship at Blackfriars on the Thames in 1906. In 1904 she was converted to a drill ship for the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve at

Encampment and Review - Suffolk Volunteer Corps at Lowestoft
Encampment and Review of the Suffolk Volunteer Corps at Lowestoft. Date: 1865

Rifle, Percussion, Enfield, Pattern 1853 3Rd Model
Pattern 1853, Enfield rifle musket, 3rd Model. Liege contract 1858. Marked to 14th Middlesex Volunteers, 1861 (c). Date: circa 1861

Loyal Islington Volunteer Cavalry.Aquatint by and after Thomas Rowlandson, 1799 (c).From a volume of 86 aquatints entitled ?Loyal Volunteers of London and Environs

A Man who stayed at Home. H. M. Bateman cartoon, WW1
" A Man who stayed at Home: The ought-to-have!" This cartoon shows a man who at various points during the war insists I ought to enlist but never actually does so

August von Mackensen in first year of military service
August von Mackensen (1849-1945), later a Field Marshal in the German army, seen here as a volunteer with the Prussian 2nd Life Hussar Regiment in the first year of his army service. Date: 1869

German First World War poster -- For the Fatherland -- depicting a Freikorps soldier holding a bugle in his right hand

Firewalking / Adcock
REGINALD ADCOCK, a volunteer, crosses the trench at Carshalton across which AHMED HUSSEIN had previously walked

Recuiting volunteers for bus-driving 1926
Temporary recruiting office in Regents Street, London, for the L.G.O.C (London General Omnibus Company), volunteers queuing outside. May 1926

Gracie Fields, 1940
Actress Gracie Fields in her capacity as an Honorary Captain in Canadas Womens Volunteer Reserve Corps. 1940

Women Munitions Workers Keighley WW1
On 23rd September 1916, the West Riding Volunteer Regiment organised a flag day and procession with marching bands. It included an attractive tableaux or float by the Keighley National Shell Factory

Russian soldiers, Russia, WW1
A group of Russian soldiers who have volunteered for the front during the First World War. Date: circa 1917

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

Republic P-43 Lancer-first flown in March 1940, this high altitude fighter was used in small numbers by the American Volunteer Group in China from May 1942

WWI Poster, Single Men First
WWI Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster, Single Men First, How the Group System Works. Date: 1915

WWI Poster, letter from King George V
To My People, letter from King George V, asking for more men to join the British army. Date: 1915

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