Rifle Collection

King Edward VII at one of his Royal shooting parties in Windsor Great Park - date unknown Circa 1899

Wingate - Cochran Expedition, Burma Campaign, Wingate fighters (Major General Orde Charles Wingate, since killed) and Cochran Commandos (Colonel Philip Cochran)

Picture shows The East Yorkshire Regiment, at Whitby, Yorkshire. The East Yorkshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army

Picture shows The Reading Home Guard, Berkshire, England, during world War Two. The Home Guard was a volunteer unit made up of people too old or too young to be sent to battle

Soldiers of the South Vietnamese army advance on Viet Cong positions in Trang Bang just days after the peace treaty between the USA and North Vietnam was signed in Paris. 31st January 1973

The Bizerte Crisis 1961 French soldiers on the streets of Bizerte. July 21st 1961 The crisis arose after Tunisian forces surrounded

Young boy playing cowboys in Collyhurst, Manchester 14th January 1968 His grandfather knew this street when tiny terraced houses stared at each other. His father remembers the bulldozers moving in

Old Pathan tribesman carries a old bolt action rifle at the Khyber Pass on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. April 1977

Edwardian society ladies as mannequinns at the Fair of British Fashion held at the Royal Botannical Gardens. A motor car load of ladies dressed for activities on the moors Burberrys

First day of Bisley, Surrey. ATS members are taking part in a two week shoot for the first time. Picture shows Lance Corporal Audrey Chapman lending a hand to the girl with the gun, Wren T Brown

Russian front. This picture taken when Russia had joined the Allies in fighting Germany. After first having cooperated with Germany in invading Poland whilst remaining neutral in the Allied-Axis

Russian students receiving bayonet training. This picture taken when Russia had joined the Allies in fighting Germany. After first having cooperated with Germany in invading Poland whilst remaining

Sailor on a landing craft poses with a captured German helmet and rifle after delivering re-enforcements to the Normandy coast 10 days after the D-Day landings 16th June 1944

Bren gunner in action against bombers, in the background a lorry can be seen burning in Tobruk Libya. Circa 9th October 1941

A stack of rifles and light machine guns captured from the Japanese at Sanananda, Papua New Guinea. The Japanese are being driven steadily north wards, by the Allies

Abyssinian patriot soldiers fighting against the Axis occupation forces of the German and Italian armies in Abyssinia, East Africa during the Second World War. 27th January 1941

The solider in the corner waited quite a while for this bus, Why?, Well, hes just home on leave and the conductress is his wife, He is Corporal Hugh Cameron of the RASC, Royal Army Service Corps

Sicilian civilians hand over arms to British soldiers. 17th August 1943

A flying leap before the instructor during the battle agility training demonstration of the R.A.F. Regiment at an R.A.F. Regiment Depot in the North watched by Lord Trenchard. Circa February 1943

A British soldier of 3rd Division makes friends with a young French couple and their baby in a ruined street in Caen following the fall of the town into allied hands. 10th July 1944

The Sudanese Defence Force, formed of Sudanese and British soldiers. 12th December 1940

A pile of captured Italian rifles at Addis Ababa. June 1941

Home on Leave for Christmas. 1942. A soldier gives his daughter a doll, as he gets off the train and onto the platform at Waterloo Station, London Picture taken 21st December 1942

Prime Minister John Major with Field Marshal Lord Bramwall at the presentation to the PM of a Kalashnikov rifle at the Imperial War Museum. 3rd May 1991

A soldier of the South Vietnamese army advances on Viet Cong positions in Trang Bang just days after the peace treaty between the USA and North Vietnam was signed in Paris. 31st January 1973

Soldiers of the South Vietnamese army watch from the top of an armoured personnel carrier as tanks shell Viet Cong positions in Trang Bang. 31st January 1973

Militiamen in training 15th July 1939 Militiamen seen here at Whittington Barracks, Lichfield receiving basic training. The Militiamen were the result of The Military Training Act 1939 which was an

Rifleman Brett of Newport, Isle of Wight, takes cover beneath his vehicle when on look out for a sniper. 29th June 1944

DAY ONE MIRROR PICTURES UNSEEN TEESSIDE The Suez Crisis war in Egypt, 29th October to 6th November, 1956 - Writing a letter home from Egypt is L-Cpl. Keith Sadler of Middlesbrough. With him is Pte

Ladys rifle range at Charlton. Situated in the sandpits at Charlton in Kent, near Woolwich, is a rifle-range 200 yards in length

Invasion day scenes. R. Es coming abroad a small coasting vessel in which they
Invasion day scenes. R.Es coming abroad a small coasting vessel in which they cross the channel. 7th June 1944

Soldiers boarding LCI (Landing craft infantry) In an English port, go through hatch and down ladder to quarters. They took part in an invasion rehearsal. 8th June 1944

British troops about to pass through Normandy village after the landings. 6th June 1944

British troops petrol the village of Mauvieu for emery elements. 29th June 1944

Solders of the Welsh Guards in Northern France, part of the British Expeditionary Force, have a cup of tea poured for them by a local French woman after finishing one of their training exercises

A sergeant of the British Expeditionary Force hands out some home knitted scarves to his men to help them battle the snow

Abyssinian War September 1935 Abyssinian sniper seen here on the Ogadan Front

Celetic footballers Bobby Lennox and Joe McBride at shooting practice, September 1967

A young boy tries his luck on the rifle range stall at the end of Southend pier. Southend, Essex. 1st June 1963

Holidaymaker tries his luck on the rifle range at the end of Southend pier. Southend, Essex. 1st June 1963

Loftus Army Cadets, Loftus, Saltburn-by-the-Sea, 5th February 1994. First girl recruit, Ruth Duck 13, gets some tuition on the mini rifle range at the revamped Army Cadets HQ from new female

Army Cadets take part in annual rifle meeting at Guisborough, 5th September 1970

Territorial Army Centre Coulby Newham, Middlesbrough, 2nd February 1992

Biafran soldiers seen here advancing through the jungle towards the Nigerian army. 11th June 1968 The Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran War endured for two and a half years

Biafran soldiers seen here advancing towards the Nigerian army. 11th June 1968 The Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran War endured for two and a half years

Rifles stand stacked ready while farmhands in the uniform and forage caps of parashooters carry on their work at an Essex farm

Reading Home Guard seen here during a exercise at a weekend training camp. 15th June 1942

Gwendolen Tulley poses with her rifle as she enjoys a shooting holiday, 1956

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