Soldiers Collection (#97)

Suez Crisis 1956 Royal Engineers take cover as they blow up a mine from a beach near Port Said which they are clearing. 23rd November 1956

Suez Crisis 1956 Royal Engineers clearing mines from a beach near Port Said

Suez Crisis 1956 The first British troops to leave Port Said under the withdrawal scheme were 7 officers and 217 other ranks of the 42nd Field Regiment Royal Engineers who embarked from Abbas Quai in

Suez Crisis 1956 The station master at El Cap talks to the British Royal Engineers crew who drove out from Port Said in their own train. 13th November 1956

Suez Crisis 1956 Seargent Bill Kidd of the Royal Engineers prepares a mine for clearing on a beach near Port Said

Suez Crisis 1956 A hospital train being taken through the Allied front line to evacuate wounded Egyptians at El Cap. The Egyptian crew are being replaced by a Royal Engineers crew before the train

Army gunners attempt to sink a Dutch barge before it damages Torquay harbour in December 1969

Evening Post chief photographer Jim Facey with members of the Home Guard. Circa September 1940

Paratroopers of the 3rd Battalion prepare to embark on an RAF Shackleton Aircraft at Blackbushe Airfield, bound for Cyprus 1956

British Paratroopers deploying at the Kosovo border, June 1999 during the Kosovo Liberation 1999

A British Gurkha patrol train in the Jungle of northern Australia September 1999

World War Two - Second World War - Young men from all parts of the North wait for interviews at the Maple Street Recruiting Office in Newcastle at the outbreak of war. 7th September, 1939

Members of the Home Guard march whilst wearing gas masks. 14 / 07 / 1942
Members of the Home Guard march whilst wearing gas masks. 14/07/1942

Major General R C Money inspects members of the Home Guard at Throckley, Northumberland. 27/11/1941

After a patrol in November 1940, members of a North-East Home Guard unit enjoy a little relaxation at their new headquarters. 07/11/1940

Northumberland Home Guard units attend a St Georges Day service at St James Park, Newcastle, in 1944. 24/04/1944

The Lord Mayor of Newcastle (Councillor A D Russell) inspecting men of the Home Guard attached to an engineering establishment in the North East. 13/08/1940

Gosforth Home Guard members marching to the Royalty Cinema to see a special film show. 21st April 1941

Veterans from The Battle of Balaclava of the Crimean War. 25/10/1932 was the date on the back of the photograph, however the battle took place in 1854. Circa: 1900

World War One victory parade - A photograph of the Great Victory Parade in through Newcastle on July 19, 1919 which appeared in the Illustrated Chronicle

Sir Thomas Innes of Learney January 1969 Lord Lyon of Scotland holding staff wearing uniform

Bangladesh War of Independence 1971 Elements of the Indian army waiting on the road to Kulna following the surrender of the Pakistan army

Abyssiania soldiers during the war with Italy of 1935 War Conflict Animals Horses 1930s Military Army Weapons Guns

Abyssiania soldiers on duty during the war with Italy of 1935 War Conflict 1930s Military Army Weapons Guns

Soldiers march to the Royal Palace in Copenhagen, Denmark December 1946

Suez Crisis 1956 Royal Engineers take cover as they blow up a mine from a beach near Port Said which they are clearing

British soldiers waving as troop ship sets sail for France during WW2 1940

World War One. Russian Soldiers wounded at Lemberg. 1918

British soldiers dig defences at the village of Hottot near Tilly Surseulles. WW2 1944

Men of the Dorset County Regiment with the B. E. F. enjoy a hot bath - 1940
Men of the Dorset County Regiment with the B.E.F. enjoy a hot bath - 1940

World War I Belgian soldiers who shot General Von Beulow standing on crutches in hospital with nursing staff circa 1917

World War One. A wounded Belgian soldier falls by the roadside in 1914

Russian transport carts crossing a river in Poland. The Russian army made steady advances into German held territory at the start of the war, particularly in Poland. However, this soon changed

MmeIda Rubenstein at bedside of wounded soldier during World War One Circa 1917

General John J Pershing at American Lunch club dinner 1919. General Pershing was the the Commander in Chief of the US Expeditionary Force in France from 1917. Y2K World War I

Whitehall bedecked with flags and bunting in preparation for the coronation of King George VI. May 1937

French soldiers entertaining wounded comarade in hospital during World War One Circa 1916

Women queue fo buy war bonds at Trafalgar Square. A Soldier stands by a tank promoting the War bonds Feed The Guns campaign. October 1917

World War One Army Service Corps working in France. Working with Forge. 1914

Soldiers on one of the lions in Trafalgar Square during WW2 VE-Day victory celebrations

Indian soldiers carrying sheep into camp during World War One Circa 1916

Belgian Soldier helps an aged woman refugee. August 1915

World War One - munition factory making shells, women weighing steel shells and testing their hardness. April 1918

Victory Parade Colonial March May 1919. A spectator rushing to give a Canadian soldier a rose in Victoria Street London. May 1919

Soldiers and sailors at a mobile canteen in Glasgow during World War Two April 1940

British Marines take up defensive positions in a trench on the outskirts of Lierne. 1914

World War One. Cars captured by Germans, the enemy donned the uniform of the belgian officer in charge and drove to within three miles of Antwerp before being stopped. 1914

The Liberal MP Horatio Bottomley leading a recruitment rally to sign up volunteers for the war in Europe. Bottomley called on all patriotic men of eligible age to sign-up

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