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Historic Military Inspections

Black and white images showcasing military inspections and gatherings, featuring officers in historical uniforms, often on battlegrounds or during ceremonies.

Inspection of the Kaiserschutzerregen.nr.3 by S.M. Emperor Charles I, mezzolombardo.

Vaccination against cholera, taken on 31 May 1916.

01/31/1918. The Somatenes of Barcelona. Magazine of San Gervasio de Casolas by the General Commander, Mr. Cavanna - Approximate date.

Italian military staff of the medical service in Cortina d'Ampezzo; Etat-Major du Service de Santé à Cortina d'Ampezzo. Part of photo album Medical mission H. de Rothschild to the Italian Front 1916.

Isonzofrontreise Kaiser Charles I. on 10.4.1917.

Wounded Moroccan on stretcher

Wife of Kaiser Wilhelm II gives roses to departing officers

Inspecting the 4th Tyrolean Imperial Hunter Regiment by Excellency Field Marshal Conrad Freiherr von Hötzendorf am Piazza d'Armi in Trento.

'Un match militaire de football a Paris; L'equipe du 20e corps en tenue militaire.', 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVII. La Guerre Juillet, Aout, Septembre, Octobre, Novembre, Decembre 1916".

Garibaldi survivors from the Italian Legion in Montevideo, Brazil, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXVI, No 14, April 2, 1899.

Excellence of Hazai climbs the car to drive to the area of the 179th infantry case. .

Inspecting the 4th Tyrolean Imperial Hunter Regiment by Excellency Field Marshal Conrad Freiherr von Hötzendorf am Piazza d'Armi in Trento.

Emperor Charles I visit in Levico: Defilling the troupe. .

Australian Army Y.M.C.A. in Julis Camp. Group of Australian soldiers listening to the radio ca. between 1940 and 1946.

General Sir Douglas Haig (left), commander of British forces in France and Belgium during World War I, and French General Joffre, supreme commander of the French armies. In December 1916, Joffre was made a Marshal of France.

Parade of the Infantry Regiment No. 59 in front of Kaiser Karl in Trento.

The Emperor Karl. And quote visit Krakow.

Civil War. Red Army Turkmen Volunteers on Red Square by Otsup, Pyotr Adolfovich (1883-1963)/Russian State Film and Photo Archive, Krasnogorsk/1919/Photograph/Russia/History

KNVB photo collection. Suppoosts and police in Stadium Feyenoord at De Interland against Belgium, the first international interland in the new stadium.nederland - Belgium (1-0), played on May 2, 1937 in Stadium Feyenoord (De Kuip) in Rotterdam .. 2 May 1937. Rotterdam , South-Holland

07/31/1920. From Red Russia. A typical patrol of the Bolshevik army on the Grodno market square. Photo: Fototyp -Approximate date.

Crown Prince William posing with two officers

Governor Giuseppe Salvago Raggi (1866-1946) after the review during the military exercises in Asmara, Eritrea, photograph by M Carpano, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXV, No 8, February 23, 1908.

04/19/1920. Madrid. In the Mountain barracks. The colonel of the Covadonga regiment Mr. Burguete in the solemn ceremony of presenting to the soldier D. Faustino Rivero Latorre the two Awards of 500 Pts.Instituted by "el Liberal" and the director of ABC.

Group acquisition: Quartermaster Department of the army command. FM. Archduke Eugen ,.

Palestine disturbances 1936. Lt. General Dill watching military parade. 1936, Jerusalem

WW1 - British soldiers alight a military transport vessel as they arrive in France. Date: 1914

German Prisoners Aboard a Coast Guard Manned Transport. Being an Allied prisoner doesn't seem to be a disagreeable lot for a German soldier these days. These Nazi officers and enlisted men, captured in France, laugh and joke among themselves as they line the rail of a Coast Guard-manned transport bringing them to the safety of an internment camp in the United States. Coast Guard Lieut. (j.g.) R.J. Campbell, Jr., 2619 St. Mary's Avenue, Hannibal, Missouri keeps an eye on them.

The Imperial German Army 1890 - 1913 The Earl of Lonsdale with the Kaiser's adjutants and aides de camp during the manoeuvres of 1905. Left to right: Rittmeister Freiherr von Holzing General Inspector of Infantry Oskar von Lindequist Lord Lonsdale General Adjutant Hans von Plessen Aide de Camp Eberhard Graf von Schmettow General Adjutant Dietrich Graf von Hülsen-Haeseler (Chief of the Kaiser's Military Cabinet) General Adjutant Friedrich von Scholl Aide de Camp Major Friedrich von Friedeburg Chief Equerry Freiherr von Reischach Aide de Camp General Wilhelm Graf von Hohenau Aide de Camp Oberstleutnant Oskar von Chelius Aide de Camp von Neumann-Cosel Major Graf Tschirscky-Renard Aide de Camp Alfred Graf von Soden

2. Grenadier Regiment No. 101 Kaiser Wilhelm, goal exerciseDresden. 2. Grenadier Regiment No.11 "Kaiser Wilhelm, King of Prussia". Exercise

Royal Visit Prince Gustaf Adolf Visits Malmen. People collection around machine gun.

Storm course.Kanft of the Emperor. .

Fotocollectie Eerste Wereldoorlog. The British Western front. Black Watch hold sports whilst resting. The colonel of the Black Watch. 1914-1918}

Visit of Archduke Heinrich, Archduke Peter and Archduke Josef Ferdinand, at the 10th Army Command.

Spanish civil war: soldiers from the International Brigade, (Republican).

German re-armament and militarisation: German infantrymen lined up for boot inspection. From series of 270 cigarette cards Die Deutsche Wehrmacht, Dresden, 1936.

Excellence Georgi visits the melee of the storm bathtillion.

John Redmond, of the Irish Parliamentary Party, Inspecting the National Volunteers. In September 1914, John Redmond had called upon the Irish Volunteers to help in the British War effort. The Volunteer movement then split and Redmond's followers became known as the National Volunteers.

13. Infantry-Regiment Nr. 178 WACHEKamenz. 13. Infant.-Regiment No. 178 Wache

Kaiser Karl I. in Bolzano, 15.1.1917 In January 1917 Kaiser Karl I traveled to South Tyrol and visited the front there

The Australian Band leading a parade of Australian soldiers in Jerusalem. 1940, Israel

Touring Club Members during the excursion to Sicily. 1924

Promotion of commanders and knights of the military-Maria-Theresien-Order in Castle Tewholz near Reichenau by Kaiser Karl I..

Catalonia, 1939. Spanish Civil War. Francisco Franco directs the operations of the Catalan front in the campaign, accompanied by his Minister of War, General Dávila of the Northern Army.

Three French Generals at the start of World War I - Joffre with Castenau and Pau

Accommodation of reserves of the section MJR. Blacksmith at Isonzorido in Tolmein. .

A. Gstbs.Chef Obstlt.R.v.Hemmer, Kmdeur d.B.Mil.Max Jos. Ordens: fire 29.3.17. .

soldiers buddies

Art.meister Penz The Skodeawerke at 30.5cm mortar. .

Lavarone plateau. Colonel Janecka artillery commander of the Lavaroneplateau's with his staff. .

Wuben Girls' School volunteer corps. This was assembled during the Japanese invasion of China.

Francisco Franco 1892 ñ 1975, dictator of Spain in Ceuta, at the start of the Spanish Civil War.

Seville, July 1936. General Francisco Franco arrives in Seville from Morocco, in a Douglas DC-2 of the Spanish postal airlines (LAPE), to lead the National Movement.

Gen. Von Stenglin and Boy Scouts, Berlin

Servian prisoners

People's Liberation Army Artillery Corps, holding slogans supporting the communist party of China 1967

Toledo, 1913. The Head of the French Government has resigned. Mr. Poincare (x), whose resignation is reported in the telegrade, was in Spain a few years ago. Then, accompanied by HM the King, he visited Toledo in detail, and the photograph presents that visit.

Relay from Rome to paris. 1909.

Bulgarische Trossknechte und Wagenführer rasten auf einer Strasse in Lescovac (Serbien).. text. Postcards, Photographs. 1914 - 1918. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Bulgarians, Laborers , Serbia and Montenegro , Leskovac (Leskovac, Serbia)

The arrival of Sir Herbert Samuel , Col TE Lawrence, Emir Abdullah, Air Mar Salmond and Sir Wyndham Deedes at the 1920 Cairo Conference which aimed to mark the start of a new era for Palestine.

Prisoner Italians from Xii.isonzuchlacht.27.10.17. .

Photograph of the National Militia on duty at Montecitorio. Dated 20th Century

Men wearing the national costume, Albania, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year LV, No 39, September 23, 1928.

Parade of the Infantry Regiment No. 59 in front of Kaiser Karl in Trento.

French legionnaire colonial soldiers on flag duty in Sidi Bel Abbès, Algeria. postcard 1908

Young boys dressed as Falangist militia, during the Spanish Civil War.

French Foreign Legion, soldiers with drum and trumpet at a caserne, or military barracks in a garrison town. Algeria, 1910

Emir Abdullah's return from London 1934, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine

Appeal by the Berlin police. Hoffmann Photographs 1933 Adolf Hitler's official photographer, and a Nazi politician and publisher, who was a member of Hitler's intimate circle.

Adolf Hitler visits a German naval shipyard after becomming Chancellor in 1933. he is accompanied by heinrich himmler and rudolf Hess

Córdoba, June 1910. Equestrian competition. The officers Mr. Ricardo Rivas (1), Mr. Francisco Alaminos (2) and Mr. Carlos Romero (3), who obtained the three first prizes.

King Alfons XIII of Spain with the Hunting Society during the moose.

Thessaloniki, Greece Group of Cretan soldiers , 1913 - Balkans - Jean Brunhes and Auguste Léon - (April 23 - June 9) (French - Thessalonique , Grèce Groupe de soldats crétois). Military uniform, group portrait, weapon, man, army, Clothing, human beings, society, Greece, Salonica, group of Cretan soldiers

Commander Nobile boarding the airship Norge before leaving for the polar expedition, Ciampino, Rome, April 10, 1926, Italy, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year LII, No 16, April 18, 1926.

Melilla, November 1921. From its first moments, the Legion incorporated a high spirituality into its creed for combat. Father Revilla addresses the legionaries before an action.

Der deutsche Kaiser bei Excellenz von Heeringen : der Kaiser begrüsst einige Generalstabsoffiziere. Im Hintergrund Prinz Heinrich v. Preussen.. text. Postcards, Photographs. 1914 - 1918. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. William II, German Emperor, 1859-1941, Heinrich, Prince of Prussia, 1862-1929

World War I (1914-1918). The United States entered the conflict by declaring war on the Central Powers on 2 April 1917. The italian monarch Victor Emmanuel III reviewing an american regiment. Colored Drawing in "La Domenica del Corriere" (1917).

Emperor Wilhelm II on maneuvers in Silesia, Germany, photograph by G Schoppmeyer, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXIII, No 40, October 7, 1906.

Charging strikers with bayonets Lawrence, Mass. Strike Jan. 19, 1912 from the NY Herald Syndicate , Strikes, Textile mill workers, Textile Workers' Strike, Lawrence, Mass., 1912. Lawrence

Victoriuous Prussian Grenadiers singing a Te Deum after Battle of Leuthen by A Kampf. TheBattle of Leuthenwas fought in the town of Leuthen (now Lutynia in Poland) on 5December 1757 and involvedFrederick the Great'sPrussian Armyusingmaneuver warfareandterrainto rout a larger Austrian force completely. After the battle of Leuthen, the army of Frederick the Great raised the strains of the hymn Te Deum, and it is said that even the mortally wounded joined in the singing. The last of the great Lutheran hymn-writers belonging to the period of the Thirty Years War was Martin Rinkart, or Rinckart, a German Lutheran clergyman and hymnist best known for the text to 'Now thank we all our God', which was written ca. 1636 and translated into English in the 19th century by Catherine Winkwort. A Kampf was a German painter who died in 1950.

Spain's national salvation government headed by Mr Antonio Maura

Emperor Charles I,. Visiting in Trento :: Reception by the mayor. .

Charging strikers with bayonets Lawrence, Mass. Strike Jan. 19, 1912 from the NY Herald Syndicate , Strikes, Textile mill workers, Textile Workers' Strike, Lawrence, Mass., 1912. Lawrence

Weather observers in Veneto 8.2.18. .

March 1920. Toledo at the Infantry Academy. The English military mission that recently visited the castle Photo - Academy - Approximate date.

German Kaiser to be tried by Allied Judges, Kaiser on tour of inspection through one of German forts on the Western Front

Visit Sr.Majesty Kaiser Karl in Trento.

España. Ametralladora Colt del ejército español. Año 1916.

Representatives of the Russian bourgeoisie persuade soldiers at the front to go on the offensive despite the strikes and uprisings at the beginning of 1917.

''La defense de l'Egypt; Les troupes australiennes, campees un pied des Pyramides, defilent, a cette allure resolue qui leur est particuliere, devant Sir George Reid, haut-commissaire de l'Australie, et le general Maxwell', 1915 (1924). From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume I" L'Illustration, Paris, 1924.

Tanzania military Schutztruppe (German colonial force) Askari guard Dar-es-Salaam wood engraving circa 1900,

Spartacists during the Spartacist uprising in Germany January 1919.

09/30/1915. The Italians in Campaign. The relief of the guard by the "Bersaglieri" in a castle occupied by a general.

French General Henri Gonraud kissing the banner of a Dragons regiment, World War I, from l'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLV, No 32, August 11, 1918.

Photo collection First World War. The British Western Front in France. The German Offensive. Walking Wounded Of The 51st Division. WOUNDED BUT Cheerful. 1914-1918}. France

Bayonet drill at Fort Bragg, N. C. , Military facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Three Canadian Cavalry Soldiers - WWI. Date: 1914

Young volunteers recruiting office, August 1917, Saint Petersburg, Russia, Europe

Bressanone, the Chilean Military Attaché Don Agustin Moreno with Rittmeister Kandl, Agricultural speakers of the 20th Corps, March 1917..

Von den Kämpfen in Russisch-Polen. Abtransport russischer Überläufer. text. Postcards, Photographs. 1914 - 1918. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. World War, 1914-1918 , Military personnel , Russian, Military deserters

Autumn Harvest Uprisings 1927. Chinese People's Liberation Army. A group photo taken in Yenan, North Shansi in 1937 of Comrade Mao Tse-tung (back row, 3rd from left) and some of his comrades-in-arms who joined the autumn harvests in 1927.

Russia, 1898-1899. 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, Russia

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