Weapon Collection (page 19)

Scots American War Memorial, Edinburgh, Scotland
Scots (Scottish) American War Memorial, Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland, erected in 1927. At the centre is a kilted infrantyman looking towards Castle Rock

Group of boy scouts, Cyclists Rifles Brigade, in a field. Date: circa 1910

Group photo, British soldiers and civilians, WW1
Group photo, British soldiers (including two young women in uniform, with rifles) and civilians, at a camp. Date: circa 1914

Cartoon, Hands Up! WW1
Cartoon, Hands Up! A German soldier holds up the severed hands of his female victim, calling to the enemy not to shoot, we are soldiers just like you. Date: 1915

Feathered evening frock by Patou for the Dolly Sisters
Part of the new look for the Dolly Sisters provided by the French couturier Patou as he used them as his publicity weapon to invade America in the Spring of 1924 Date: 1924

Dolly Sisters in lounging robes from Patou, Spring 1924
Part of the new look for the Dolly Sisters provided by the French couturier Patou as he used them as his publicity weapon to invade America in the Spring of 1924 Date: 1924

Cartoon, Return to the Front, WW1
Cartoon, Return to the Front, showing a group of French soldiers sharing stories about how they spent their four days of leave. Date: 1915

Boys playing on street corner, Balham, SW London
Four boys playing on a Balham street corner, SW London. Two of them are holding a cricket bat and a stick as if they are weapons. Date: circa 1961

Boys with toy gun, Balham, SW London
Two boys on a Balham street, SW London. The younger boy has a plastic bottle in his mouth, while the older one holds a toy gun. Date: circa 1961

Bruce Bairnsfather cartoon, Maxim Maxim
Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon, Maxim Maxim -- Fire should be withheld till a favourable target presents itself, published in the Bystander, 1916. Date: 1916

WWI Poster, Buy More Liberty Bonds
Design by Walter Whitehead, Come On! buy more Liberty Bonds, American WW1 poster. Date: 1918

BELTRAME, Achille (1871-1945). General Cronje imprisoned by Marshal Roberts. Anglo-Boer War, 1900

Mexican dresses, southern soldiers, 1855. Illustration from M鸩 co y sus alrededores. Coleccion de vistas monumentales, paisajes y trajes del pais

Tile representation of handicrafts. Catalan school, 17th-18th c. Ceramics. Proc: SPAIN. CATALONIA

Missal with scene of the Crucifixion. School of Avignon (1409). Gothic art. Miniature Painting. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. National Library

Grimani Breviary. 16th c. Month of August: Leaving for the Hunt. Renaissance art. Miniature Painting. ITALY. VENETO. Venice. Biblioteca nazionale marciana (St. Marks Library)

Machine gun Gatling-Colt, 10 barrels (1871). SPAIN. CASTILE-LA MANCHA. Toledo. Army Museum

Rome. Roman archer. Sculpture. ITALY. LAZIO. Rome. Museum of Roman Civilization

India - A Thibetan man, Himalayas
Black and white. Man wearing a simple garment which wraps around him. He is holding what appears to be some kind of umbrella, staff or weapon.. Part of India Box, Boswell Collection

Sailors camping party, Virago Sound, Canada
Sailors camping party, Virago Sound, Graham Island, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada. They belong to HMS Egeria, a British Royal Navy coastal survey ship. Date: 1907

Sphere cover -Crew of tank inspecting German anti-tank rifle
The crew of a British tank pictured inspecting a captured anti-tank rifle which, when put to use, was entirely ineffective upon its intended victim

Highlanders practising bayonet work at base, WW1
Soldiers in a highland regiment learning how to use bayonets on dummies which swing from a cross-beam. Date: 1918

With British Bombers on the Western Front
Bombing along an enemy trench with the Mills grenade. The bomb throwers throw grenades across the traverse of the trench as indicated allowing the riflemen to charge ahead

Crew of HMS Berwick, British heavy cruiser
Crew of HMS Berwick (65), British County class heavy cruiser, on shore with a gun. Date: circa 1926

Policeman with rifle
A man, presumably wearing police uniform, but with a leather harness with pouches or bags attached, and a very large rifle. Date: c. 1885

Sea Scouts demonstrating with cannons, Gibraltar

Avro Vulcan XA903 Farnborough
First public appearance of the then unnamed stand-off bomb. Eventually called Blue Steel it became the standard British air carried nuclear weapon

Bombs and bombing, methods and types of projectiles
The aerial bomber and his waepons: The wimperis sight used in the R.A.F in conjunction with a press-button bomb-release to ensure hitting the target; and other methods of bomb attack. Date: 1939

Watch me make a fire-bucket of is elmet
Two British soldiers have a couple minutes to practise shooting

Indian and French soldiers near the front during WWI
A French officer explains the French carbine to Indian officers, near the front in France. Date: 1916

Paris, France - Arsenal and its shipyard. Date: circa 1600

Blitz in London -- night at an AFS station, WW2
Blitz in London -- a night-time scene in an AFS station, 19 September 1940, with an armed guard keeping watch over appliances kept ready to answer any emergency. Date: 1940

Early experiment in aerial gunnery by Heath Robinson
Another Mystery Revealed - An Early Experiment in Aerial Gunnery - now illustrated for the first time. A rather Heath Robinson attempt at a flying gun for aerial dogfights

German soldiers ready to through hand grenade
German soldiers looking through loopholes behind their trenches, waiting for the right moment to through their hand-grenades. Date: 1917

German siege gun
The German siege gun was constructed for the reduction of fortresses. The guns were 42cm howitzers which throw one-ton shells of explosive powder

Trench Art dagger in carved wood, WW1
Trench Art dagger in carved wood made from a French Label bayonet in its wooden scabbard

Replica of German shell sold in Berlin, WW1
A British soldier holding a life-size replica card of a German shell, as thrown by big siege guns, complete with photographs of places in which the shells had inflicted particular damage - Liege

Louis Mansfield, Port Pirie, South Australia
Louis Mansfield, boy scout of Port Pirie, South Australia, with rifle

A Foster, 1st West Australian Scout Troop
A Foster, member of 1st West Australian Scout Troop, with rifle

Trench mortars captured from the Germans, 1914
Trench mortars captured from the Germans seen here at Ramscapelle behind the Yser line. They throw a murderous shell at very close range. Date: 1914

British troops practising with new catapult
British troops practising with new bomb thrower catapult, for use in trenches Date: 1915

Royal Field Artillery Gunner 1914
A lone Royal Field Artillery Gunner continues to load and fire his gun, with the dead bodies of his three comrades (four men worked each gun) lying around him. Date: August 1914

WW2 poster, We re working for our lives
WW2 poster, We re not only working for our living, we re working for our lives. Design by Victor Hicks. Date: 1940s

Chinese Civil War
An anti " red" gunner ready to load a stokes trench-mortar. At the time the warring parties are divided into two group, on the one side, the northern " anti-Red" allies

WW2 poster, Victory of the Allies is Assured, showing a British submarine sinking an enemy ship. Date: 1940s

Edoardo Latino Brancaleone
Young Italian boy, Edoardo Latino Brancaleone in traditional dress clasping his weapon. Date: 1833

A new type of German machine gun, World War One
A new type of German machine gun from the months preceding the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. It has a telescopic sight. Date: 1914

Woman with rifle sitting on five bar gate
Woman with a rifle sitting on a five bar gate

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