Weapons Collection (page 38)

Battle of Arras 1917
Battery of 60 pounders firing in the open at Feuchy Chapel, which is 3.75 miles from Arras and was the limit of the first days advance on the Western Front in France during World War I in April 1917

Howitzer 1917
12 inch Howitzer gun and ammunition under camouflage netting at the Battle of Arras on the Western Front in France during World War I in April 1917

Soldiers with mortar 1917
Soldiers of the York and Lancaster regiment in the trenches with a mortar on the Western Front in France during World War I in 1917

Howitzers in action 1917
British Howitzer guns in action at the Battle of Arras offensive on the Western Front in France during World War I in April 1917

Bargains in Bombs
Anarchists at sale on the Western Front. Several good hand-grenades, suitable for elections were sold. The auctioneers sidekick, Bairnsfathers creation, " Old Bill", tells one anarchist

60 pounder 1915
A 60 pounder gun of the 6th Division Artillery covering the 2nd Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 19th Brigade, 6th and 27th Divisions in the Bois Grenier Sector on the Western Front in France

Gun inspection 1915
6th Siege Battery, 6 inch BL 30 cwt howitzer gun being examined by Inspector of Munitions, Major Browne, after No. 3 gun had burst on the Western Front in France during World War I on 17th March 1915

Battle of Hazebrouck 1918
18 pounder battery in action in the open near Meteren. Soldiers loading the gun at the Battle of Hazebrouck on the Western Front in Belgium during World War I on 13th April 1918

Vickers Machine Gun
Soldiers filling the water jacket on a Vickers Machine Gun on the Western Front in Belgium during World War I in 1917

Howitzer in the mud
6 inch 26 cwt Howitzer gun being manhandled through the mud near Pozieres during World War I in September 1918

Guards take aim in Sidney Street, East London
Members of the First Battalion Scots Guards lying in the roadway, taking aim during the Sidney Street Siege (popularly known as the Battle of Stepney) in East London

Aerial torpedoes designed by an Australian engineer, Mr A Dunbar Wigram. They were expected to revolutionise the methods of modern warfare, by speeding over land and sea with a deadly aim

Prince of Wales (George V) at Dover
The Prince of Wales (soon to be George V) with Guards at Dover, Kent

Women war workers, USA
Women working on armaments in America

Camp Gordon, Georgia
American troops at Camp Gordon, Georgia

North Vietnam 1972
A group of North Vietnamese soldiers hold their rifles aloft as if in celebration of victory. *UNAVAILABLE FOR USE IN ASIA AT PRESENT*

Men with bows and arrows, Madhya Pradesh, India
A group of native men with bows and arrows in Madhya Pradesh Province, Central India. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Mendi Expedition. The native method of firing a cannon
The native method of firing a cannon (lighting it and sprinting away) during the Mendi expedition in Sierra Leone, West Africa in 1898

Bargains in Bombs by Bruce Bairnsfather
A group of sinister looking European anarchists assemble at an auction where British bombs are being auctioned by sale by a British officer in the aftermath of World War I

French machine-gunner 1916
French machine-gunner of the 10th Army with a CSRG Chauchat machine gun in the Somme area on the French front during World War I in August 1916

Towed Derelict Torpedo
Recovery of a lost torpedo by a fishing boat or patrol vessel. Finders received 5 pounds for salvaging derelict torpedoes and returning them to the Admiralty authorities

Greek soldier in Traditional Costume
A Greek soldier in Traditional Costume. He is bristling with a wide variety of weaponry!

Musket instruction, World War I
Muskeet instruction at the Wandsworth Home Defence Battalion during World War I on 30th November 1914

Shell Factory, World War I
An English Shell Factory during World War I

Bisharin Tribesmen of Aswan, Egypt
Bisharin Tribesmen of Aswan with traditional weapons having a fencing match

Bisharin Men dancing
The Bisharin are a Sunni Muslim tribe of the Beja nomadic ethnic group in the eastern part of the Nubian Desert in Sudan - close to Aswan

Bisharin Man holding a spear, whilst riding his camel
Bisharin Man with a spear on the back of his camel. The Bisharin are a Sunni Muslim tribe of the Beja nomadic ethnic group in the eastern part of the Nubian Desert in Sudan

Articles worn by the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo
Photograph showing some of the clothing and weapons used by Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, at Waterloo on display in Apsley House, London, late 19th century

Indian machine gunners mobilize
Indian troops taking their maxim machine guns to the firing line in world war one

German Weapons; First World War, 1916
Photograph showing a variety of captured German weapons, displayed in a yard behind the French lines, 1916. The weapons shown include machine-guns, rifles, artillery pieces and flame-throwers

SS Patrol searching Civilians, Warsaw, 1944
Illustration showing a German SS Patrol searching Polish civilians, for weapons and documents, in a Warsaw street, 1944. This drawing was made during the Second World War by Captain Bryan de Grineau

Crimea Mortar Battery
British mortar battery on the heights before Sebastopol, during the Crimea War

Consecrating Swords
Consecration of swords among the ancient Celts

Mongol Warrior in Armour
A Mongol warrior in chain armour, carrying a scimitar and some sort of polearm

Reluctant Guards
Gardes Nationales who refuse to join the Communards are deprived of their weapons

Mitrailleuses with shields used by government forces against the Communards during the Paris Commune

Weapons Destroyed
Government troops destroy weapons seized from the Communards

Douglas Fairbanks playing Mr Robinson Crusoe, 1932
Photograph of Douglas Fairbanks (1883-1939) in A.Edward Sutherlands Mr. Robinson Crusoe, with one of the characters home-made weapons

Robinson Crusoe / Defoe
With this cargo I put to sea Crusoe abandons the sinking wreck with as much equipment as his raft can hold

Playing at Soldiers / 1890
A group of young children, with gardening implements masquerading as weapons, play at soldiers

Weapons from Guinea
Spears, bow and arrows and shield from Guinea, West Africa. Date: 1836

Social / Japanese Ladies
Japanese ladies practising shooting with the crossbow indoors

German Field Artillery
Prussian field artillery in battle formation

Disobedience Forum
Handbill issued by the Committee of 100 inviting you to join Bertrand Russell at a Mass Forum on Civil Disobedience against Nuclear weapons

Racial / Eskimo / Labrador
Eskimo indian native of Labrador with hunting weapons

A Tuarick or Tuareg of Saharan Africa

African Bowman
An African warrior using his bow. He is described as a Mangourian but we have not been able to trace a people with that name

Medieval Knights Armour
The full armour of a medieval knight with details of plate and arm armour and hand weapons and lancing equipment

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