Warfare Collection (page 5)

German trench defences, WW1 1915
Example of a German trench defences employed in World War One: caltrops, chevaux des frise, shields, barbed wire and deep dug outs(some as much as 25 to 30 feet below the surface). Date: 1915

Aerial photograph of trenches and mine craters, WW1
Aerial photograph (British) of trenches, mine craters and shell pitted ground, somewhere on the western front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Tabriz Uprising, Iran
Shot-torn and pillaged Tabriz, and the army of the revolutionaries: the Ark, its garrison and its archaic cannon

Soldiers in trench with fixed bayonets
A group of soldiers in a trench with fixed bayonets, during the First World War

German stormtroopers WWI
German storm troopers avoiding the mud in the trenches during World War I in Romania

Trench warfare WWI
During a lull in the Bolshevik artillery, German Grenadiers attack along a funnel in the trenches

Admiral Alfred Friedrich von Tirpitz (1849-1930)
Photographic portrait of Admiral Alfred Friedrich von Tirpitz, pictured when serving as Secretary of State for the Imperial German Navy, 1909

Abu Yusuf using gunpowder, Morocco
MOROCCO - Abu-Yusuf, Sultan, use gunpowder to bombard Sidi- Mesa

Diagram of electric searchlight 1916
Diagram of electric searchlight for defence for night-time attack from Germans. Date: 1916

The Graphic Christmas Number 1914, front cover
Front cover of The Graphic, 1914, its first Christmas number of the Great War, featuring two aeroplanes, the top one a German Taube, flying against a dark, ominous sky

Replace ships that have been sunk by German u-boats 1917
The first steps of the great programme of shipbuilding which is designed to counter the ruthless submarine warfare of the German attack

Diagram of Zeppelin 1916
The new features of the engines of frightfulness. Showing the observation car with observer lying upon a woollen mattress and the Zeppelin system of gas control. Date: 1916

Warfare in the future - as predicted in 1932
An impression of what warfare might look like in 2032, as predicted by The Modern Boy magazine in 1932. It suggests that invading troops might attack via a shell

Hugh Dalton, 1940
Hugh Dalton (later Lord Dalton), then Minister for Economic Warfare. 1940

Karnak, Luxor, Egypt - Victory Tableau - Ramesses II
Karnak Thebes (modern Luxor), Egypt - a wall relief (from the Victory Tableau) illustrating Pharoah Ramesses II smiting his enemies! Date: circa 1910s

Ghostly green cloud gas rolling towards the trench 1915
Heavy green gas clouds traveling slowly from the German lines rolled into the trenches. Soldiers choking from the fumes covering their faces with their hands and scarves. Date: 1915

The Rainbow Alliance of Allied forces during WW1. Date: circa 1916

Capturing German news: Irish answering enemy taunts
Capturing German news designed to undermine their allegiance: Irish answering enemy taunts in 1916. The taking of the placards: Munster fusiliers cross no-mans land by night

Funeral of Edward VII - Naval ContingentNaval Contingent - Sailors marching with reversed arms. Part of Box 127 Boswell Collection - Funeral of Edward VII

Defence against the deadly long-range missiles 1958
Illustration by George Horace Davis, showing some ideas for missile interception, based on radar, computers, satellite and missile rockets in the future, and the continuing need for manned aircraft

Austrian cavalry entering village in Russian Poland 1915
Peasants of an invaded countryside, stand meekly outside their houses, hats in hand, hardly daring to look up at the new terror. 1915

Mahdist War - Sudan Campaign - Gordons Warfare - Soldiers and horses walking along by river - British ship on water. Part of Box 244 Boswell Collection - Sudan War. Date: 1881 - 1889

Royal Edward torpedoed August 1915
The first British transport ships to be sunk in the First World War, Royal Edward owned by the Canadian Northern Steamship Company

Peninsular War (1808-1814)Conquest and plunder of the monastery of Montserrat by French troops, 1811. Lithography, 19th century

Pigeon Post
A German soldier with a carrier pigeon, used for delivering messages during warfare. Date: 1930s

Training War Dogs
The animal-loving British train dogs not to fear gunfire, so that they can be used in warfare. Date: 1925

Slide pack of archival photographs from the IWM
35 mm. transparencies of IWM photographs contained in a booklet. Trench Warfare - this educational slide pack contains 24 black

A Kite Balloon car over the Western Front, WW1
Two observers in the basket of a kite balloon pictured spotting activity on the ground below. The Kite Balloon section (often known as the balloonatics)

Submarine D 4 with mounted gun
The British submarine the " D 4" which carried a quick-firing gun mounted forward of the conning tower upon a moving platform placed inside the hull

British submarines in dock, WW1
Part of Britains underwater submarine fleet moored in dock just before the First World War. Date: 1914

The New Mortar for Bridging Chasms, Heath Robinson WW1
America in the Field - The new mortar for bridging chasms. A line of American soldiers traverse a chasm chained on wheeled chairs to a shell sent flying into the air

American barb trousers, WW1 cartoon, Heath Robinson
American barb trousers. For enabling troops to extricate themselves from wire entanglements. Another ingenious idea from the imagination of William Heath Robinson Date: 1918

The Red Cross for the Russo-Japanese War
An ambulance dog supplied by Major Edwin Richardson, the renowned dog trainer to the Russian army during the Russo-Japanese war in 1904

The Gas-Driven Armoured Car by H. M. Bateman, WW1
Highly amusing sequential cartoon by H. M. Bateman documenting the success of a gas-bag powered armoured car which, overly filled with coal gas

Playing the Game 1905 and 1915
Cartoon contrasting a schoolboy aiming snowballs with his older self, ten years later, transferring his skills in the trenches and readying himself to show some grenades

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

WW1 - Cartoon - The Kaiser
WW1 - A cartoon illustrating mocking the Hohenzollern Kaiser (possibly German Emperor Wilhem II), illustrating the notion that in order to save himself

WW1 - Cartoon - Britain joins her allies
WW1 - Two soldiers meeting during battle and are shown shaking hands. The illustration and gesture symbolises Great Britain joining her allies on the field. Date: 1914

WW1 - Cartoon - Kaiser on North Sea coast
WW1 - A scene of the coast of Belgium, with a Kaiser standing on the coast line. The Wild Waves personifies the British, the illustration

WW1 - Cartoon - German tradesman in England adapts to war
WW1 - " A quick change of front." - The text plays on the word front, as Britain declares war on Germany. The German tradesman adapts his shop front to disguise his origin. Date: 1914

WW1 - Cartoon - Britain Joins In
WW1 - Britannia with sword and British flag ready, she marches across Britains landscape declaring war on Germany. " For friendship and honour"

WW1 - Air battle over the Ypres, Belgium, 1915
WW1 - People look up towards the air battle over the Belgium city of Ypres. Within view is The Cloth Hall, which has been damaged and is in ruins caused by the destruction of war. Date: 1915

WW1 - German aircraft views the English Navy - North Sea
WW1 - A German illustration of a battle in the North Sea showing a German aircraft beating-off the English Navy. Three enemy merchant-vessels are being destroyed

WW1 - North Country troop trench warfare in Polygon Wood
WW1 - Out of their lairs in Polygon Wood, North Country troops bomb Hun machine-gunners. Polygon Wood is a forest located between Ypres and Zonnebeke, Belgium. Date: 1917

WW1 - Trench warfare and ammunition transportation at night
WW1 - Ammuntion is brought by the regimental transport section to the dump during the night for the trenches. Working fatigue parties run carrying the boxes from the dump to the firing trenches

WW1 - Trench Warfare between Epehy and Bellicourt
WW1 - British Soldiers overcoming resisitance and breaking through the German line between Epehy and Bellicourt in France. Date: circa 1917

Battle hammers of the late 15th, early 16th century.. Chromolithograph from Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Altenecks Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century, Frankfurt

A Daring Frontal Attack on a Bomb Dropper, WW1
Humorous cartoon by William Heath Robinson showing an attempt by the British to mount an aerial attack upon a German airship. Date: 1915

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