Images Dated 26th August 2011 (page 5)

WWI era girl in a hat - postcard drawn by George Ranstead
Sketch of a young woman in a high crowned hat. Drawn by amateur soldier artist of the Great War, George Ranstead. circa 1916

Prehistoric man by George Ranstead
Two cavemen seem to be having a jolly time firing arrows and throwing spears from the back of an unidentifiable beast. Drawing on a postcard by George Ranstead

Signal exchange beneath Fricourt Chateau, France, WW1
Royal Engineers at work in a signal exchange in a captured German dugout beneath Fricourt Chateau, Somme, northern France, during the First World War. Date: September 1916

British Army recruits receiving their pay, London, WW1
British Army recruits receiving their pay in St Martins Churchyard, Trafalgar Square, London at the beginning of the First World War. Date: August 1914

British Army recruits taking the oath, WW1
Four 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, WW1
Lincolnshire Regiment recruits at rifle drill at the start of the First World War. Date: September 1914

Gurkhas arriving by troop train, Western Front, WW1
Gurkhas arriving on the Western Front by troop train during the First World War. Date: 2 November 1914

Artillery Observation Officer sets lamp, Kemmel Ridge, WW1
An Artillery Observation Officer setting his lamp to signal back to his Battery the results of firing, around the time of the Battles of Kemmel Ridge (Kemmelburg, Lys, Flanders)

Army Signal Service, Western Front, WW1
Men of the Army Signal Service at work on the Western Front during the First World War. Showing a section of the Third Army Signal Office, with Captain Bulman OBE in the background. Date: 1914-1918

Canadian armourers repairing rifles, Salisbury Plain, WW1
Canadian armourers repairing Ross straight-pull rifles on Salisbury Plain at the start of the First World War. Another man in the background is repairing a bicycle. Date: 27 September 1914

Gurkha firing Lewis gun in trenches, WW1
Gurkha of the 3/3rd Gurkha Rifles, 75th Division, firing a Lewis gun in the trenches during the First World War. Date: December 1917

Group photo of British Army officers and soldiers, WW1
Group photo of British Army officers and soldiers during the First World War, in an unidentified location. Date: 1914-1918

Man of a Motorcycle Machine Gun Unit, WW1
A man belonging to a Motorcycle Machine Gun Unit with a Scott motorcycle during the First World War. Date: March 1915

British soldier walking along a road, WW1
A solitary British soldier walking along a road during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Soldiers at Mytchett Camp, near Aldershot, WW1
Soldiers wearing " Kitchener Blue" uniform during the erection of tents at Mytchett Camp, near Aldershot, during the First World War. Date: December 1914

Two soldiers using a signalling shutter, WW1
Two soldiers using a signalling shutter during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

South Africa - Kenhardt - Mission Church
Construction of Kenhardt Dutch Reformed Mission Church, South Africa. Built in 1889, although this card is of a later date (could be a re-use of a much earlier photograph). Date: circa 1910

Ukraine - Crimea - Sebastopol - View out into the Black Sea Date: circa 1907

Shinto priest climbing Mount Fujiyama on pilgrimage. The summit of Mount Fuji is a pilgrimage site for the Shinto religion. Date: circa 1900

The Grand Lama of Rongbuk
The Grand Lama of the Rongbuk Monastery, Tibet. Date: circa 1910s

Costume / Italian Students
Two Italian students from Padova wearing breeches known as Venetians with matching doublets, small ruffs & tall crowned hats. N.B fur-lined gown with hanging sleeves. Date: 1583

Insurance / Liverpool
The Liverpool and London Fire and Life Insurance offices, Liverpool Date: 1858

St Georges Hall, C1840
St Georges Hall, and the Assize Courts. Date: circa 1840

Alice and Dinah
Alice and her cat Dinah. Date: First published: 1865

Victory Parade in London
A victory parade marches into St James Park along the Mall, which is lined by thousands of people Date: 19 July 1919

Gladstone / Liverpool
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE House in Rodney Street, Liverpool, where the British MP and Prime Minister was born Date: 1809 - 1898

Francis Assisi / Cayley
SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI - preaching to the birds. Date: 1182 - 1226

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