Military Collection (#79)

The last serving Royal Air Force Avro Lancaster bomber makes its first flight since being grounded two years ago for a major overhaul

One of the first official photographs to be released of operation Fido, showing how fog was dispersed by artificial means from RAF airfields

A Second World War Avro Lancaster bomber pictured leaving RAF St Athan after a refit. 15th May 1996

The latest Avro Lancaster III bomber plane, fitted with Merlin 28 engines, pictured during the Second World War. April 1944

Nuneaton volunteers march off behind the battalion band of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Circa 1895

Naval Cadets seen here in Coventry City Centre advertising the RNAS Bramcote Navy Day Air Display. Circa June 1954

A band plays beneath a replica of Captain Cooks ship "Endeavour"
A band plays beneath a replica of Captain Cooks ship " Endeavour" hanging in the Cleveland Centre. 18th July 1986

Eight days before Coronation Day, on the Whit Monday bank holiday. Changing the Guard at Buckingham Palace, London. 25th May 1953

Avro Lancasters bomber from 35 Squadron in flight over the English countryside. 29th May 1946

An Avro Lancaster bomber from 35 Squadron in flight over the English countryside. 29th May 1946

H. M.s Otter which was involved in a slight collision with a ferry in the Ship Canal
H.M.S Otter which was involved in a slight collision with a ferry in the Ship Canal yesterday, arriving at the Manchester Docks after the incident

When men of 104 Light Air Defence Regiment, Royal Artillery, (Volunteers), Newport, fire a 21 - gun salute to mark the coming of age of the Prince of Wales

Winston Churchill First Lord of the Admiralty (Far Right) seen here with Prime Minister Herbert Asquith (2nd Right) and four unnamed Brigadier Generals at a military parade on Horse Guards Parade

Minister of Munitions Winston Churchill watches the march past of the 47th Division in the Grande Place, Lille, Northern France following the liberation of the town near the end of the First World

Officers of the 17th Service Battalion of the Kings Liverpool Regiment. July 2nd 1915 Top Row: Left to Right: 2nd Lt A Ribonson, 2nd Lt A. I. Draper, 2nd Lt H Higson, LT C. A. Emery, Lt B. S

Members of the 2 / 6th (Rifle) Battalion, Kings Liverpool Regiment at Margate, Kent
Members of the 2/6th (Rifle) Battalion, Kings Liverpool Regiment at Margate, Kent. Seen here undergoing physical exercises in the form of a leap frog race on the beach. 1st July 1915

Petty Officer on the quarter deck of a Royal Naval destroyer, White Ensign at half mast, circa 1938

A member of the Royal Army Physical Training Corps gives Mr Jacob Epstein, the famous sculptor, a private in the Jewish battalion of the Royal Fusiliers basic training in the use of the bayonet

HMS Ceylon, Ceylon class light cruiser of the Royal Navy, returns to Portsmouth after 17 month on station in the Far East, Friday 18th December 1959

Russian soldiers seen here suffering the effects of poison gas being cared for by members of the Russian Red Cross not far from the front line trenches. Circa August 1915

A German field commander on the Eastern Front commandeers a circus caravan as his parlour. Circa 1916

Sappers and gunners pull a artillery piece up the slope over the previously laid railway lines towards the temporary platform which has been strongly built with the trunks of trees

Russian army engineers seen here laying a track bed for a narrow gauge railway during the russian campaign of March 1916 (Circa)

A Russian officer seen watching the movement of the enemy though field glasses whilst a colleague makes observations through a trench periscope on the Galicia front. Circa June 1915

Dr. Eugene Hurd inspect the kitchen stove, giving orders to the soldier cook in very bad Russian. Cononel Hurd is the only American surgeon attached to the Russian Red Cross working in the field

The Russian Christmas is twelve days behind ours but the Armies are already making preparations for their xmas celebration on the field

Russian Infantry warmly clad and well equipped seen here setting out for the front to engage in the great battle for Poland Circa December 1914

Russian army sappers hastily manager to secure standing room only on a locomotive. Circa 1915

German Red Cross workers near Lowicz, Poland help an injured German pilot to a field hospital. Circa 1915

German troops seen here sniping at a Russian patrol from behind a breastworks built of sandbags as medics see to an injured soldier. Location not known. Circa 1915

The Company of the 7th Regiment of Chasseurs pose for the camera Circa 1915

Yurtas the peculiar tents which are used as dewellings by the Kirghiz nomad tribes of Russia. Owing to the warm weatherproof nature of these huts, which are easily transportable

German officers seen here during the campaign in Poland wearing sheepskin coats, which being white, protect them against being seen in the snow. They are drinking coffee from a field stove. Circa 1915

Russian soldiers seen here preparing a meal during their advance in to Galicia circa September 1914

The village of Cumin the scene of hard fighting. Won and lost by the Russians and the Germans again and again but now firmly held by the Russians. Circa December 1914

"The men in blue", wounded soldiers outside the general hospital in Coventry
" The men in blue", wounded soldiers outside the general hospital in Coventry. Circa 1915

Officers and ground crew of No. 1 Squadron at Clairmarais Aerodrome, near St. Omer
Officers and ground crew of No.1 Squadron at Clairmarais Aerodrome, near St. Omer. Seen here with their and S.E. 5A. Scout aircraft. 3rd July 1918

The British Steel Gala, Teesside. Children being shown how to use army rifles. 4th July 1993

WaCs at Radford aerodrome where they received newly built aircraft from factories in Coventry and Birmingham, are prepared and despatched to the front line squadrons

A Red Arrows display, Gnat trainers flying in formation over their base at Chivenor, Devon, Wednesday 8th April 1970

Mrs Valerie Arkel Smith, a cross-dresser who pretended to have fought in the RAF as Colonel Sir Victor Barker DSO. March 1929

Dutch Festival Week in Scarborough, North Yorkshire. Dutch Sailor Chris Frietman takes a picture of the girls. 16th June 1959

Lee-Enfield Rifle No. 4, buried with full military honours at Bisley, Surrey, England, by a 26 strong party of Royal Navy Officers and Men, Thursday 7th July 1966

Warmly clad members of Ground Crew clearing away snow from a dispersl point at a bomber command station in England. 8th March 1944

Childrens Games: The Guardsman that fainted on parade. 60 small boys dressed as Grenadier Guardsmen were busy square-bashing on a beautiful lawn of St

EVALUATION SCAN ONLY. A Second World War Avro Lancaster bomber pictured leaving RAF St Athan after a refit. 15th May 1996

A Lancaster aircraft flown across the Atlantic to "show the flag"
A Lancaster aircraft flown across the Atlantic to " show the flag" to Canada and the USA. Picture shows: Clyde Pangborn, captain and famous international airman at the cockpit window

The Avro Manchester aircraft now in service with Bomber Command of the Royal Air Force. The nose of the plane showing the bomb aimers window and the forward gun torrent. 13th November 1941

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