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LCC-LFB AFS recruitment driveA member of the Auxiliary Fire Service fronting an advertising campaign to seek additional volunteers for the service
Firewoman of the AFS, Jean Savory, WW2Miss Jean Savory (1920-2000), firewoman, one of the first volunteers to join the AFS on the outbreak of WW2. She was attached to Red Cross Street fire station in the City of London
LFEE lithograph print of a firefighting sceneA manual pump is being worked by volunteers whilst firefighters from the LFEE direct their efforts and fight the fire. The LFEE was the forerunner of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, formed in 1866
General Strike 1926
The First Union dress parade in Nashville. The 51st Regiment
Officers of lst Rhode Island Volunteers - Camp Sprague, 1861. Ambrose Everett Burnside with eight officers posed in front of building, with sign reading Col. Burnside welcome home
Urgent - volunteers needed at once! Join up at any police station, any firehouse, or Room 201 City Hall, 16 South 15th Street
The General Strike, 1926: volunteersAre 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
Col. Funston and 20th Kansas volunteers crossing the river at Calumpit, April 26th 1889
Elmira Cornet Band, Thirty-third Regiment, of the New York State Volunteers, July 1861. Group portrait of 16 men and boys posed with musical instruments. Drum reads: Elmira Cornet Band
Government House, PerthThe Government House at Perth, capital of Western Australia, pictured shortly after its completion. The building was designed by Lieutenant-Colonel Henderson of the Royal Engineers
Cinderella DancesProgramme ticket for the Queens Westminster and Volunteers Cinderella Dances Lottie Weber in 1890 Date: January 15th 1890
The Volunteers Ball at the Floral Hall, Covent Garden, LondEngraving 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
WaCsWomenss Army Auxiliary Corps cooking at a field-kitchen, 1933. Date: 1933
Albanian volunteers marching, Serbia, WW1Albanian volunteers with a flag, marching along a road in Serbia on the eastern front during the First World War. Date: 1916
Field-Marshal Lord French inspecting volunteers, Hyde ParkField-Marshal Lord French (1852-1925) inspecting some 10, 000 volunteers of numerous London regiments in Hyde Park, London, during the First World War
Kitcheners army recruits, Chatham, Kent, WW1Kitcheners army recruits at the Royal Engineers Barracks in Chatham, Kent, during the First World War, with an ornamental stone gateway behind them. Date: 1914-1918
Lord Kitchener reviewing new army recruits, BasingstokeLord 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
British Army recruits taking the oath, WW1Four young British Army recruits taking the oath, probably towards the beginning of the First World War. Date: circa 1914
Lincolnshire Regiment recruits at rifle drill, WW1Lincolnshire Regiment recruits at rifle drill at the start of the First World War. Date: September 1914
Isle of Wight - Yarmouth Lifeboat CrewIsle of Wight - The Yarmouth Lifeboat Crew. The large wheels of the trailers are fitted with boards, preventing the wheels from digging into the soft sand of the beach. Date: circa 1910s
Military / Rifle VolunteerRifle Volunteers Date: circa 1860
Some General Favourites, duing the General StrikeBelieved 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 strikeTypical volunteer workers in Hyde Park and Horse Guards, helping in the canteens and hanging out the washing
Volunteers during the General StrikeThe Chiswick garage of the L.G.O.C. where the London volunteer bus-drivers and conductors slept during the strike
Volunteers working on the docks at Dover during the GeneralThe 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 volunteersVolunteers 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
A Fair Cop by George RansteadA humorous play on words as a female police officer leads away a naughty little boy. A cartoon illustration on a postcard by George Ranstead
Czech troops in the Urals 1918Czech volunteer forces in the trenches before Kungur, in the Urals, during the Russian Civil War
Territorial Army posterPoster promoting the comradeship to be found in the Territorial Army, depicting a group of soldiers sitting contentedly around a camp fire
Army Comforts Depot WWIIWomen working in the Army Comforts Depot where gifts are packed and despatched to British troops during World War II
King George VI talking to wartime farm helpersKing George VI visiting schoolboys working as volunteers on farms in the Southern Counties during the war
Royal visit to Dunrobin Castle 1866During their stay at Dunrobin Castle, Scotland, the Prince and Princess of Wales review the Sutherland volunteers in the castle grounds
Shkoder Ottoman army volunteers in traditional costumeAlbanian volunteers for the Ottoman Empire army from Shkoder, Albania
Kitcheners Army 1915Men of Kitcheners Army, the new volunteer recruits enlisted at the request of Kitchener during World War I in 1915
Home Guard Call up, World War IHome Guard Call up, London, at the beginning of World War I in 1914
Ops Volunteers in DublinO.P.S Ulster Volunteers ride on horseback through the streets of Dublin during the Easter rising of April 1916
The General Strike - volunteers
Home Guard training against bombersTraining for the Home Guard at Osterley Park, in the suburbs of west London. Riflemen being trained to meet dive-bombing attacks by practising rapid fire against a diving model that represents a 50
Home Guard march to lectureMembers of the Home Guard on their way to a field in the grounds of Osterley Park, in the suburbs of west London, where lectures
Home Guard demonstrationDuring a Home Guard intensive training course at Osterley Park, in the west London suburbs, a car pulling a trailer, supposed to represent a tank
The Householders Share in the WarBilleting troops in an English village during World War One. As volunteers were trained, they needed to be housed and many home owners accommodated soldiers
The Civil Service Volunteers at Somerset House, London, 1864Engraving showing the armed display of the Civil Service Volunteers, forming a square in the quadrangle of Somerset House, in front of the Prince of Wales, 1864
Germanys reply to Kitcheners army: Volunteers (Freiwillige) at drill for entry into the field in the spring
Blighted BlightyThe sad sufferings of a subaltern on leave who finds that everyone on the Home Front is obsessed with the war and with " doing their bit" including girlfriends who have become nurses
Volunteers at TuileriesDeparture of the volunteers who have been occupying the palais des Tuileries since the abdication of Louis-Philippe
Patriot VolunteersVolunteers to join the insurgent army at Janow sail across the San river
Visit to Corsica - 3A posse of volunteers form a guard of honour for the Prince Imperial during the imperial visit to Corsica - their last summer excursion, did they but know it