Volunteer Collection (page 9)

Citizens Volunteer Hospital, corner of Broad St. & Washingto

Citizens Volunteer Hospital Philadelphia. Exterior view of the Citizens Volunteer Hospital, corner of Broad St. & Washington Avenue, Philadelphia

Advert for recruiting women for the WaF 1942
Serve in the WaF. The Womens Auxiliary Air Force. As an administrative airwoman. Good organizers are needed in a fast growing service

The General Strike, 1926: volunteers
Are we downhearted? The answer is Negative. A page from The Tatler, applauding the magnificent response which all classes of Society made to the Governments call for volunteers in the wake of

The grand trotter St. Julien, driven by Orrin A. Hickok: by volunteer, dam by Sayres Harry Clay. Date c1880

Volunteer crossing the finish line. Date c1887

St. Julien: by Volunteer, dam by Sayres Harry Clay. Date c1879

The king of the turf St. Julien, driven by Orrin A. Hickok: by Volunteer, dam by Sayres Harry Clay. Date c1880

Volunteer. Date c1887. Volunteer. Date c1887

Review of the Mass. volunteer militia, at Concord, Sept. 9, 1859, by his excellency (commander in chief) Nathaniel P. Banks. Date c1860

Victorious Volunteer. Americas Cup Race, off Sandy Hock. Date c1887 Dec. 19. Published by L Prang

Volunteer refreshment saloon, supported gratuitously by the citizens of Philadelphia, Pa. Date c1862 Feb. 12

Cooper shop volunteer refreshment saloon. Date c1862 Jan. 12

Train to be a nurses aide Phone your boro Civilian Defense Volunteer Office. Poster encouraging women to become nurses aides for the Civilian Defense Volunteer Office

Excavating in the bombed Cripplegate area
Mr W. F. Grimes, Keeper of the London Museum (Museum of London) assisted by a volunteer, archaeological worker, Miss Adrienne Farrell, in the excavations at Monkwell Street in the City of London

Volunteer games at Liverpool
A grand Olympic festival held by the Liverpool Athletic Club at the Mount Vernon Parade-ground, Liverpool. Date: 1862

Poster advertising the Territorial Army. Lets be prepared to defend the peace we re working to win. Volunteer with me for the Territorial Army, 9 divisions strong, with modern equipment

The Volunteers Ball at the Floral Hall, Covent Garden, Lond
Engraving showing the Volunteers Ball at the Floral Hall in Covent Garden, London, 1860. This image shows the Volunteers in their uniforms and their partners in formal evening dresses

WaCs
Womenss Army Auxiliary Corps cooking at a field-kitchen, 1933. Date: 1933

Queens Crown Civil Defence Corps button badge
A Queens Crown Civil Defence Corps button badge in brass and enamel. late 1940s-1950s

British and French sailors interned in Holland, WW1
British and French sailors interned in Holland during the First World War. One of them is being given a close shave. Date: 21 November 1914

HMS Volunteer, British destroyer, WW2
HMS Volunteer, British V & W class destroyer, launched 1919, served throughout the Second World War, decommissioned 1947. Date: 20th century

Lord Kitchener reviewing new army recruits, Basingstoke
Lord Herbert Kitchener (1850-1916) reviewing new recruits of the 10th Division at Basingstoke during the First World War. Kitchener was so greatly involved in the drive for volunteers at

Flying out another girl for the Harem
Hand-drawn anti-Turkish French propaganda card depicting a semi-naked woman being sent as a volunteer to the Sultans Harem via a Turkish kite! circa 1910s

Edwin John James
EDWIN JOHN JAMES English lawyer, a volunteer with Garibaldis forces in Italy. Date: 1812 - 1882

Strike / Train Derailed
A derailed train at Cremlington, Northumberland, and an undergraduate volunteer working as a station porter Date: May 1926

Military / Rifle Volunteer
Rifle Volunteers Date: circa 1860

Some General Favourites, duing the General Strike
Believed to have come from Oxford, Cambridge and other " health resorts", London will not soon forget these cheery knights of the road

How they helped in Hyde Park and Whitehall during the strike
Typical volunteer workers in Hyde Park and Horse Guards, helping in the canteens and hanging out the washing

Volunteers during the General Strike
The Chiswick garage of the L.G.O.C. where the London volunteer bus-drivers and conductors slept during the strike

Curious effects of the strike: Unusual scenes in London
Unusual scenes include: a motor-bus used as a recruiting office; a flock of sheep walking down a road in London and volunteer workers improvising a cricket match in Rotten Row

Volunteers working on the docks at Dover during the General
The Cambridge volunteers, the light blue brigade, attired in berets, pull-overs, flannel bags and voluminous plus-fours, worked efficiently as porters and dockers during the General Strike

The spirit of England at work: railway and dock volunteers
Volunteers on the railways during the General Strike. The ILN reports that Nothing was more remarkable during the General Strike than the skill and efficiency with which the railways were carried

World War One nurses by George Ranstead
A simple and stylised illustration on a postcard by George Ranstead, an amateur artist of the Great War who served in the Army Pay Corps

Czech troops in the Urals 1918
Czech volunteer forces in the trenches before Kungur, in the Urals, during the Russian Civil War

Czechoslovak legion returns to Prague 1918
A Czechoslovak regiment returns from fighting in France at the end of World war I. Volunteer Czechs and Slovaks fought on several fronts during the war

Czechoslovak legions in Prague 1918
Czech and Slovak volunteer forces returning from fighting on the western front at the end of World War I. They had formed regiments under the command of the French army

Army Comforts Depot WWII
Women working in the Army Comforts Depot where gifts are packed and despatched to British troops during World War II

ARP Calling You
ARP (Air Raid Precautions) recruiting poster in World War Two to try to encourage people to get in touch with their local council and volunteer

King George VI talking to wartime farm helpers
King George VI visiting schoolboys working as volunteers on farms in the Southern Counties during the war

Carrying away an unexploded bomb
Volunteer carrying away an unexploded bomb, which fell in Bromley, Kent - one of a payload of twenty two bombs

Kitcheners Army 1915
Men of Kitcheners Army, the new volunteer recruits enlisted at the request of Kitchener during World War I in 1915

Womens Volunteer Reserve 1916
Womens Volunteer Reserve driving the Royal Mail during World War I. Here being given engine instruction in November 1916

The East London Childrens Hospital
This is a crowded scene from the East London Hospital for Children and Dispensary for Women, situated at Ratcliff Cross near Stepney railway station

Review of the Volunteer Corps at Buckingham Palace, 1887
Engraving showing the Artists Volunteer Corps marching past the Royal enclosure, outside Buckingham Palace, London, 1887

Our Costly Arms
A recruiting sergeant is shocked to discover that a volunteer for the Army turns out to have a wife and eleven children and comments that he will cost as much as the Colonel in army pay

Coventry Volunteer Fire Brigade, 1862
Engraving showing four members of the Coventry Volunteer Fire Brigade, standing beside their fire engine, 1862

War with Russia - 4
A parade of volunteers marches through the streets of Warsaw, rousing citizens to volunteer against the bolshevik Red Army which threatens to take their city

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