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Historic Military Inspections

Black and white images capturing military troop inspections, reflecting the organization and hierarchy within historic military forces.

War album 108, picture 33266.

War album 106, picture 32518.

Auxiliary Corps of the Black Shirts' Action Squads, known as the Black Brigades (Brigate Nere), a Fascist paramilitary groups, organized and run by the Republican Fascist Party (Partito Fascista Repubblicano, PFR) operating in the Italian Social Republic (in northern Italy), during the final years of World War II, and after the signing of the Italian Armistice in 1943.

Group portrait of German soldiers. .

Visit of K.K.Lir.21 at Dobrowlany. 16.8.16. .

meeting between Italian and French generals during world war one

General Joseph Joffre (1852-1931) decorating Italian officers during the review of General Luigi Cadorna (1850-1928), France, World War I, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLIII, No 16, April 19, 1916.

Photograph of Antonio Aranda, Antonio Ortega and Pablo Martin Alonso.

Woerner Eugen (herr) Collection Battle of Arras, April/May 1917. Cross-examination of prisoners.

Persia, 1490-1907. 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, Iran

09/30/1919. From Santander To Madrid On Foot. Section of the Valencia regiment that comes from the Montañesa capital to return the visit to the section of the Covadonga regiment that went to Santander recently.

March 1919. Madrid. In the Pavia Hussars barracks. Flag Pledge by the Recruits of the current Replacement, Verified yesterday tomorrow.

Balloon - Defense cannon in front of the Dante monument in Trento. .

French Foreign legion soldiers in Algeria 1910

'Une ceremonie militaire a Salonique; Le general Sarrail decore par le general Mahon de cordon de grand-croix de Saint-George', 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVII. La Guerre Janvier, Fevrier, Mars, Avril, Mai, Juin 1916".

Strypabrier at Rakowie's forest, bridge guard from the body commands.

Ten minutes for Refreshment" - Kelly-Kenny's troops, running down Cronje, have hardly time to eat or drink..

Presentation of Russian soldiers and also easts. - Hungarian troops, who return home from the prisoner of war.

Senegalese soldiers after attack, c1914-c1918. Artist: Unknown.

Joffre, Foch, D'Urbal

Before battle, in battle, and after battle our 'Tommies' are ready for a 'fag'. These men are lighting up after a scrap - WWI. Date: circa 1916

Bliżej Kultury unknown

Albert Thomas campaigning on the Russian front. Albert Thomas (16 June 1878 - 7 May 1932) was a prominent French Socialist and the first Minister of Armament for the French Third Republic during World War I.

Coasts How to Haitz L / 15, Battery 3, position in the Lesachtal. Menage. Recorded on 17 August 1916..

10/31/1914. In the Pervise Trenches. Commander Fichel, head of the French Marine Fusiliers in Belgium, and Captain Count de Lambert.

The fleet men on march..

Russia, 1920Red Air Force airmen of the Western Front detachment during the Russian Revolution.

Inspecting by its excellence General of the Infantry Succovaty v. Vezza at the Sturmbatalon Exercise Square.

Swedish military posting at the Handoline bridge during the war years.

Officer's involvement at the front in Veneto 4.5.18. .

12/19/1923. Guadalajara. Flag Pledge. HM the King (1) and General Rivera's cousin (2), upon arriving at the place where the solemn ceremony was held.

Group portrait with four conscript soldiers with left Karel van Steenwijk (1915-1991).

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

The National Heroes of France and Belgium: a meeting at the Front between General Joffre (on the left) and King Albert.

General Major of Spitzmüller ...

Use of weapons, 1912, Landkreis Nordsachsen, Oschatz, 1. Königlich Sächsisches Ulanen, Regiment Nr. 17, Zur Salve fertig, Germany

12/29/1913. - King Alfonso.

Photo collection First World War. The British Western Front in France. The German Offensive. Cheery Jocks - Wounded But Happy. 1914-1918}. France

Inspecting by Se.K.K.Hoism Archduke Karl Franz Josef.

Italian and French forces at Reims, during World war one. 1915

05/31/1916. A "Boy-Scout" Prince. The heir to the throne of Italy, Umberto, prince of Piedmont (X), visiting the camp of the Italian Explorers in Villa Savoia (Rome).

Brigadestab der 49.inf.brigade. .

De Parade in Utrecht on August 31. An overview of the warlike spectacle. The troops ready for the advance.

Second World War. Netherlands under German crew. Relatives of the German Wehrmacht with a riding horse in front of a building (probably at the Hague)

Photograph of a Canadian Scottish soldier with two British Highland regiment soldiers during World War One. Dated 1914

01/31/1920. Melilla. Arrival of General Fernandez Silvestre 1, Rivera's cousin Lieutenant Colonel Welcoming the new commander General (X) 2, General Fernández Silvestre (X) Witnessing the parade of the Troops that Honored him -Photo: Lazaro y Silva.

Umberto di savoia and ferdinando I of bulgaria, montenegro

Miniscalchi-Erizzo, Grillenzoni, Sforza, Malmusi, Moroccan master of ceremonies, Laredo, Falcetti: Giulio Malmusi's Italian delegation shortly before arriving in Fez for the Algeciras Treaty, June 8- July 9 1906, Morocco, photograph by G Nottar, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXIII, No 28, July 15, 1906.

Line-up..

Austrian prisoners of war captured by the French army during world war One 1917

Baron Manfred von Richthofen, Red Baron (1892-1918) German aviator during the First World War, with colleagues

Ski rescuities of officers and teams of Rayon V, in the surroundings of Bruneck. .

Scottish soldiers, military parade in honour of the new Lord Mayor's appointment, London, United Kingdom, photograph by Central News and Daily Mirror, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLI, No 47, November 22, 1914.

Spain, 1896. 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, Spain

Lenin V. I. , Krupskaya N. K. and Ulyanova M. I. in a car after the end of the parade of the Red Army units on the Khodynskoye field. 1918, May 1. Moscow. Photographer - P. K. Novitsky

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection Cadets of No 5 Officer Cadet Battalion assembled in Neville Court, Trinity College, Cambridge.

Group of Br. British police at entrance into courtyard of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre 1934, Jerusalem, Israel

Lord Kitchener with staff, India, Asia Copyright: xKenxGraham/DinodiaxPhotox

Military exercise, cartilage in Åstorp.

Armoured cars called from the front to suppress the July demonstration in Petrograd.

On the 6th April 1917, the U.S. joined its allies; Britain, France, and Russia to fight in World War I. Photograph showing America troops training in Aldershoot, Britain and France. Date: 1917

Children as Red Army men. Moscow, December 17, 1923 by Anonymous /State Central Military Museum, Moscow/1923/Photograph/Russia/History

Eight prisoners of war French (group Halbert)

Photograph of a Soviet representative and Nazi army leaders meeting in Brest-Litovsk. Dated 1939

Clarinettists of the military music corps by bike, Anonymous, 1925 - 1935 photograph Netherlands photographic support gelatin silver print making music; musician with instrument. bicycle Netherlands

Schuster and Schneider Werkstätte of the 5th Army Command. .

'French official photograph of reserves waiting behind the lines awaiting orders, Battle of Verdun, one of the major battles of World War I, 21 February-18 December 1916. French victory.'

Crew first flight to the Dutch East Indies, 1924 photograph Album magazine with a photo of the crew of the first flight to the Dutch East Indies during a stopover en route. From left to right VILLARS Hendrik van Weerden Poelman, Jan Thomassen à Thuessink van der Hoop and mechanical Pieter van den Broeke. On the far right General C.J. Snijders. Part of the memorial album of the Indies line of KLM, part I. Europe paper. photographic support. cardboard gelatin silver print airborne traffic, aviation. travelling; tourism. pilot. flight crew Europe

Air ace pilot Gilbert of France in World War one

One of the first units of red army, formed in Moscow. March, 1918.(Photo).

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

Spanish-American War. War conflict between Spain and the United States in 1898, the result of the North American intervention in the Cuban war of independence. United States. War preparations following the sinking of the 'Maine'. Artillery recruit training at Fort Slocum, Davids Island, Long Island Sound, New Rochelle, New York. Photoengraving. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana, 1898.

Photograph taken 11 November 1918 as Marshal Foche, second from right, leaves the railway carriage in which the Armistice which ended the First World War. He is carrying the text of the agreement signed by Germany and by Foche on behalf of the Allies.

Petersburg, Virginia. Company D. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

War album 106, picture 32705.

Russian soldiers with captured Turkish flags, First World War, 1915-1916, (c1920). 'Russian Trophies at Erzerum Erzurum, Turkey: two of the heavily-embroidered standards captured from the Turks'. From "The Great World War: A History", Volume V, edited by Frank A Mumby. The Gresham Publishing Company Ltd, London, c1920

05/01/1940. The Captain General of the German Army, Walther von Brauchitsch, personally directing operations on the Western Front.

10/31/1911. The Infante Don Alfonso de Orleans in the Melilla Park.

Petrograd, Russia 1917Lavi Kornilov's troops are disarmed after their defeat during the Russian Revolution.

Adolf Hitler (* 20 April 1889 in Braunau am Inn) ( 30 April 1945 Berlin), Leader of the Nazi Party, Reich Chancellor from 1933, also self-appointed "Fuehrer" and head of state of Germany

Vauxbuin, Aisne, France Group of doctors and nurses at the Chteau de Vauxbuin used as a hospital , 1917 - Aisne - Fernand Cuville (photographic section of the army) - (May -July) (French - Vauxbuin , Aisne , France Groupe de médecins et infirmières au chteau de Vauxbuin utilisé comme hôpital). Woman, military personality, military uniform, group portrait, care center, work clothing, rear, medical, hairy, man, army, army, Human beings, personality, clothing, health, First World War, society, France, Soissons, group of doctors and nurses from the Vauxbuin hospital

Use of weapons, 1912, Landkreis Nordsachsen, Oschatz, 1. Königlich Sächsisches Ulanen, Regiment Nr. 17, Zielübungen, Germany

De genius in the winter

Photo collection First World War. Conversation between two German soldiers, one of which was injured. 1914-1918}

French assault wagons in front of Frankfurt station, Germany, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XVLII, No 16, April 18, 1920.

Anefo photo collection. 35th anniversary N.P.G. (Nederlands Padfinters Gilde). Celebration 35 anniversary N.P.G. (Nederlands Padfinders Gilde) "Jubeldag" to Lunteren on the Goudsberg. 14 May 1951. Lunteren

Archduke Friedrich. Monte Rover Saddle. .

General Maunoury and General Villaretconfer. World war one, 1915

Commemorative shooting of the Second Army Party Congress of the Chinese People's Anti-Japanese Red Army.

Photo collection First World War. Three German soldiers bow to a fallen companion .. 1914-1918}

Second World War. For billeting. Soviet Union. German Wehrmachliche in front of a building

12/27/1923. Miscellaneous Information. Arrival in Barcelona of the Soldiers of the Alcantara regiment repatriated from Africa, 2. Team from the Cartagena regiment that in a shooting contest has definitively won the Villamartin cup, 3. Champion soccer team from Cáceres, which will soon play in Madrid.

World War I, German officers of the Todeskopf regiment watch a helilographer send dispatches, ca. 1914

División Azul en Alemania en 1942 (Segunda Guerra Mundial). Cartel de una corrida de toros en un barracón de las tropas.

Pay-offGrimma. Post at the barracks guard of K. S. 2. Hussar regiments "Queen Carola" No. 19

Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941) at the hunt

Contrada della tartuca during the Palio of Siena, 1910-20.

SLOVENIA, PRIMORSKA, Kobarid: Kobarid Museum about WW1

German prisoners, captured off a train by the French resisitance, are gathered together prior to interrogation. Date: circa 1944

Bosnian falconers

Great Patriotic War. Women Military Training by Otsup, Pyotr Adolfovich (1883-1963)/Russian State Film and Photo Archive, Krasnogorsk/1941/Photograph/Russia/History

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