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Images from the collections

Images about Armies

65 images from works
  • Durga slaying the Buffalo demon depicted on a stand and surmounted on a torana decorated with smaller figures of demon kings and Hindu gods. Transfer lithograph.
  • National egg collection for our wounded soldiers and sailors : offices: 154, Fleet Street, London.
  • "Well done".
  • Seven uniformed senior British army staff, two of whom are mounted. Chromolithograph, c. 1880.
  • WORLD WAR II: Casualty Evaucation by jeep
  • In arduis fidelis : with best wishes for Christmas and the new year from / Royal Army Medical Corps.
  • Personalausweis : Der / Die ... geboren am ... in ... wird ausschließlich im Sanitätsdienst der Wehrmacht als Angehörige(r) der Freiwilligen Krankenpflege verwendet ... / Wehrmacht des Deutschen Reiches.
  • Sarawak: a line-up of armed Sarawak Rangers. Photograph.
  • Menu : Eastern Command Motor Ambulance Convoy. No. 2 Company : Officer Commanding- Capt. R. Stewart Barnes : dinner held at Beale's Restaurant, Holloway Road, N. : Thursday, March 27th, 1919 at 7 p.m.
  • Supplément à l'ordre du jour, du 27 thermidor an 8 : avis sur la santé de l'armée / R. Desgenettes.

Works from the collections

87 works

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    Wounded foreigners outside the city walls being picked up by French soldiers and taken to a guarded fortress. Coloured lithograph by G. Engelmann after H. Lecomte, 1820.

    Lecomte, Hippolyte, 1781-1857. | Date: 1820 | Reference: 24451i
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Private's billet : Blairgowrie, 18... Mr... for the period of ... night ... billet master : if lodging is not provided, give three-pence per night to each man, and return the billet.

    | Date: [Before 1900]
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Judith puts the head of Holofernes into her maid's bag. Etching (?) after H. Goltzius.

    Goltzius, Hendrik, 1558-1617. | Reference: 20970i
    • Books

    Dictionary of military abbreviations : British-Empire-Commonwealth / by B.K.C. Scott.

    Scott, B. K. C. (Brian Keith Colin) | Date: 1982
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Crimean War: a blazing battle in and around the harbour at Sevastopol, details of the French and English ships are given. Wood engraving, 1855.

    | Date: 14 April 1855 | Reference: 24466i

Related topics

United Kingdom
Soldiers
Military history
War
Military Medicine
Great Britain
Military Personnel
Military Medicine
War - Relief of sick and wounded
Litters

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