Volunteers Collection (page 6)

Portsmouth scene (exact city location unknown). The Corps of Canadian Fire-fighters (also known as the Volunteer Corps of Canadian Fire-fighters and simply as CCCF)

Personal photos (poly-photos) taken by the men. The Corps of Canadian Fire-fighters (also known as the Volunteer Corps of Canadian Fire-fighters and simply as CCCF)

Plymouth after a Blitz raid.. 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

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)

Marquis of Graham
The marquis of GRAHAM, with the earl of Buchan, depicted by Kay in the uniform of Scottish volunteers, dressed in tartan from head to foot. Date: 1755 - ?

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

Strike / Womens Corp
Volunteers join the Womens Auxiliary Corps Date: 1926

Strike / Enrolment / 1926
Volunteers queuing at a Foreign Office building to enrol for duties during the General Strike Date: 1926

Boer War / Zulu Volunteers
Local Zulus offering their services in the war to the magistrate at Pietermaritzburg. Date: 1899

Military manouvres 1894
Military manouvres in Britain, volunteers attack regulars at Aldershot Date: 1894

Colonel Patrick Crichton of the Royal Edinburgh Volunteers Date: 1794

Drill shed in Burlington Gardens
The drill shed erected in Burlington Gardens, for the use of the South Middlesex Rifle Volunteers in 1862. Date: 1862

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 - Conscription in Britain
WW1 - Britannia holding her trident and the National Register, in front of civilians and industrial factory. The patriotic scenario

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

WW1 - Belgian Refugees on road to Brussels from Tirlemont
WW1 - Belgian Refugees on the road to Brussels from Tirlemont Date: 1914

Group photo, Gosport, Hampshire, WW2
Group photo of nurses, St Johns Ambulance staff, Civil Defence (CD) volunteers and others, Gosport, Hampshire. Date: circa 1940s

Making sphagnum moss dressings, Dartmoor, WW1
A group of cutters and machinists at Princetown on Dartmoor making cases for sphagnum moss which would become surgical dressings during the First World War

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

GEORGE III (1738-1820). King og the Great Britain and Ireland (1760-1820). The Light Horse Volunteers of London and Westminster, Commanded by Colonel Charles Herries

British advance in S. E. Africa, WW1
Some of the troops under Brigadier-General Northey advancing between Lakes Nyasa and Tanganyika in Southern East Africa. On the left are commanding officers of the Rhodesian volunteers, B.S.A

Lift for troops on leave at London train station, WW1
A party of soldiers on leave are conveyed to their destination station by a member of the Motor Transport Volunteers on arrival in London during the First World War

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

Munitions workers waiting for the tea hooter, WW1
Women munitions workers outside the National Control Canteen, run by female volunteers, waiting for the tea hooter to sound

Staff of the Soldiers Free Buffet at Charing Cross, WW1
Female staff of the Soldiers Free Buffet at Charing Cross Station, set up, along with similar buffets at other London terminus

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

The Little Theatre as a soldiers clubhouse, WW1
A page from The Sphere, reporting on how the Little Theatre, in the Haymarket, London (now the Theatre Royal, Haymarket) temporarily converted to become a soldiers clubhouse during the First World

Lady Sclaters Hospital Supply Depot, WW1
Four photographs in the Sphere magazine reporting on the War Hospital Supply Dept opened in August 1915 by Lady Sclater, wife of Lieut.-General Sir H

New recruits setting off for training camp, WW1
Volunteers for Kitcheners Army, all dressed in civilian clothing, pictured marching in formation on their way to the railway station

Inspecting recruits at Tower of London, WW1
An Inspector of Recruits at the Tower of London. These were men who volunteered at the outbreak of war and are pictured still in civilian clothes. Date: 1914

Blitz in London -- large building on fire, WW2
Blitz in London -- a large building on fire following an air raid, with firefighters and AFS volunteers fighting the blaze. Date: 1940s

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

Digging A. R. P. shelters in Kensington Gardens, 1938
Air Raid Precautions (A.R.P.) volunteers digging trenches and shelters in Kensington Gardens, London, on 26th September 1938, watched by an interested crowd. A.R.P

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

WWI mahogany plaque in the shape of Australia
A First World War mahogany plaque in the shape of Australia. The piece contains the following : 1. A multi-coloured badge worn at the top of the left sleeve by members of the Australian Flying Corps

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

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

Men and women fighting for Great Britain in WWI
Fighting for Great Britain in the First World War by land, sea and air - regulars, territorials, volunteers and colonials

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

Cambridge University sportsmen during WW1
A spread from The Sketch magazine featuring 76 portraits of Cambridge Blues who had joined up during the First World War. The Sketch comments that

Boer volunteers drilling, Market Square Johannesburg, South Africa

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