Volunteer Collection (page 7)

Ottawa, Canada - General view. The Corps of Canadian Fire-fighters (also known as the Volunteer Corps of Canadian Fire-fighters and simply as CCCF) were stationed in England between 1942 and 1945

Canadian fire hall (fire station)
One of the fire halls in Ottawa that provided volunteers for the Corps. The Corps of Canadian Fire-fighters (also known as the Volunteer Corps of Canadian Fire-fighters and simply as CCCF)

James Gregory - 2
JAMES GREGORY Scottish professor of medicine at Edinburgh, wearing his Volunteer uniform - a fine example of Kays portraiture. Date: 1753 - 1821

Charles Lord Granton
CHARLES HOPE, lord GRANTON Scottish lawyer and volunteer officer Date: 1763 - 1851

Archibald Gilchrist
ARCHIBALD GILCHRIST Edinburgh haberdasher and Volunteer - prepared to repel a French invasion... Date: CIRCA 1794

James Earl Charlemont
JAMES CAULFIELD, first earl of CHARLEMONT, Irish statesman, depicted while serving as commander-in-chief of the volunteer forces of Ireland. Date: 1728 - 1799

Strike / Constables
A detachment of the new civil constabulary - volunteers to act as transport guards and help quell disturbances Date: May 1926

Strike / Bus Volunteer
A volunteer bus conductor during the General Strike Date: 1926

South Middlesex Rifles clearing ground at Burlington House
Members of the South Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps at work by torchlight in the gardens of Burlington House, Piccadilly clearing the ground in preparation for the erection of their drill shed

City militia with armoured car, Petrograd, Russia
City militia (volunteer police force) with armoured car, Petrograd (St Petersburg), Russia. Date: 1917

AVF Guard, Worcester Park, SW London (Surrey)
Army Volunteer Force Guard on parade with rifles, Worcester Park, SW London (Surrey). Date: circa 1907

The Audience of the Peace-speaker by H. M. Bateman
" Lo! The poor Timid un! The Audience of the Peace-speaker!" This illustration comments on how war-fever has gripped the nation

Drill-dodging: The new exercise, H. M. Bateman cartoon, WW1
" Drill-dodging: Everyone can test it gratis: the new exercise for onlookers in the park." This World War One cartoon jokes that the sheer quantity of volunteers to the British Army by 1915

Are you as one of these? H. M. Bateman cartoon
" Are you as one of these? A few splendid fellows who are unfortunately debarred from meeting the Germans - and why." This cartoon during the enlistment drive at the beginning of the First

WW1 women volunteers distracted by sales, 1915
Trying experience of a contingent of the Womens Volunteer Defence Corps in the course of a route march. Date: 1915

WW1 - Recruitment Day - Lord Derbys Group System
WW1 - Recruits in batches at Camberwell, London as they volunteer to join the army under Lord Derbys group system. The volunteers in this recruitment office raise their arms as they make an oath to

WW1 - German Recruitment Day, 1914
WW1 - German volunteers follow a German Officer through the gates where the men will continue and complete the recruitment procedure. The event is watched and guarded by other German Officers

Curtiss P-40B being manually refuelled of AVG

AVG pilots, Alison, John R, Hill, David, Baumler, Albert, Mitchal, Mack

Alison, JR, AVG pilot

High Street, Lyndhurst, Hampshire
High Street, Lyndhurst, New Forest, near Totton, Hampshire, England. Showing the Volunteer Arms Date: 1910s

Volunteer in Womens Land Army on Duchy of Cornwall farm
Miss C. M. Matheson, a novelist, working as a volunteer under the Womens Land Service scheme during the First World War at the home farm near the village of Stoke Climsland

WWI Poster, The Prime Ministers Advice
WWI Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster, The Prime MInisters Advice to the Young Unmarried Men and Pledge to Married Men. Date: 1915

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

Meeting troops on leave at London train station, WW1
London Motor Transport volunteers meeting and conveying troops across London as they arrival at rail stations on leave. Date: 1918

Recruitment in the City of London, WW1
A recruiter and his capture in the City - a well-dressed young man willingly assents to the recruiting sergeants arguments in December 1915. Date: 1915

WW2 Poster -- Volunteer ATS
if you are over 17 and a half or 18, under 19, Volunteer ATS. Recruitment poster, Auxiliary Territorial Service. Colour photolithograph by unknown artist, published by HMSO. 1940

WW2 Poster -- Theres a grand job waiting
Theres a grand job waiting - you can still volunteer, ATS. Recruitment poster, Auxiliary Territorial Service. Colour photolithograph, artist unknown, published by HMSO. Date: 1940

Blitz in London - AFS firefighter, WW2
Blitz in London - a smiling AFS firefighter, a former Smithfield meat porter named Eddie. Date: 1940s

Members of Coventry Volunteer Fire Brigade
Four members of the Coventry Volunteer Fire Brigade, in an Illustrated London News engraving. Date: 1862

Tempora Mutantur! Militancy at Buckingham Palace, 1914&1915
The Bystander contrasts the militancy of demonstrating suffragettes outside Buckingham Palace in the summer of 1914, before the outbreak of World War One

Civilian doing his bit, WW1
Humorous illustrations showing a British civilian adorned with a whole range of flags, badges and emblems of wartime service

The compleat Angler (Derby Scheme)
Caricature of Prime Minister Herbert Asquith attempting to catch fish, representing men of age able to fight in WW1. The fish in the net represent married men who had already volunteered (attested)

Bystander cover-Derby scheme
An illustration showing the number of men attested in 1916 for the volunteer (Derby) scheme to encourage military recruitment

Green baize armband of City of London Motor Volunteers
A green baize armband of the 4th/23rd Squadrons, City of London Motor Volunteers and a dress uniform metal belt buckle with the badge and lettering of the Motor Volunteer Corps. Framed as one

Private A C Crapper bringing up a limber of supplies, WW1
Private A C Crapper bringing up a limber of supplies to the trenches under heavy fire. After the horses had bolted, 670 Private Crapper of the 1/4th (Hallamshire) Battalion

Beaten Up Raw by H. M. Bateman, new recruits by WW1
Humorous illustration showing two raw recruits, just out of the egg, looking a little dishevelled as they consider crossing the road. Date: 1914

Volunteer nurses learning to bandage, outbreak of WW1
Volunteer nurses practising their bandaging techniques on children at Kensington Town Hall shortly after the outbreak of the First World War. Date: 1914

Tatler cover - Yvonne Fitzroy, WW1
Yvonne FitzRoy (1891-1971), actress and society figure on the front cover of The Tatler magazine in 1917. She was a theatre actress before the First World War

An Extra-Special Romance by H. M. Bateman, WW1 cartoon
Cartoon by H. M. Bateman showing a police officer initially snobbish about the special constable who is accompanying him on his beat

Miss Hermione Kennedy digging somewhere in France
Miss Hermione Kennedy, the daughter of Lady Alexander Kennedy, widow of the late Lord Alexander Kennedy, snapshotted digging in the garden of a British soldiers buffet somewhere on the Western Front

Oxford Blues who had joined up, WW1
Spread of 76 portraits and key showing sporting Blues from Oxford University who had joined up during the First World War

Lord Graham, 1916
James Graham, 6th Duke of Montrose (1878 1954), Scottish nobleman, politician and engineer, pictured before he succeeded to the Dukedom during the First World War while serving as a commander in

Lady Dorothie Feilding
Lady Dorothie Mary Evelyn Feilding-Moore (aka " Dot" Feilding), better known as Dorothie Feilding, MM, CdeG, OLII, (6 October 1889 24 October 1935), daughter of Lord and Lady Denbigh

London recruits at Southwark Town Hall, WW1
Crowds of men anxious to attest under the Derby scheme, crowded into the corridors of Southwark Town Hall in December 1915

Women as war-time firemen in their bunks
Members of the Womens Volunteer Reserve in bunks at the Holborn Union Workhouse for aged women, due to being in attendance day and night for duty. Date: 1916

Eve walks out with Uncle Fred wearing his volunteer armbands
Illustration by Annie Fish to illustrate Letters of Eve in The Tatler. The eponymous Eve is walking out with her Uncle Fred who always aggressive

Cover design, German wartime story, WW1
Cover design for a German story entitled To Victory, about two volunteer soldiers during the First World War. Depicting a young German soldier with a flag, and a battle charge going on behind him

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