Historic Military Personnel Portraits

Portraits of military leaders and officers in uniform from various eras, showcasing their attire and ranks, connected to significant historical events.

Bugler Dunne of the Dublin Fusiliers. Hero of the Battle of Colenso 15th December 1899.  1899-1902
Bugler Dunne of the Dublin Fusiliers. Hero of the Battle of Colenso 15th December 1899. 1899-1902
Stabsfeldwebel Kovalcik Julius .España. Guerra civil (1936-1939). Militar del ejército nacional. Carlos Asensio Cabanillas (1896-1970).Infantry observer at the Piave.Photo collection First World War. The Western Front. King of Montenegro and Lt. Gene. Sir e.h.h. Allenby. 1914-1918}Army Printing and Stationery Section First World War CollectionPhoto collection First World War. The British Western Front. A veteran or 1870. 1914-1918}Oberst Hugo Fischer von See Commander of the 11th Mountain Brigade; probably near Lokve or Nemci, area behind the Isonzo front; photographer: Kriegsvermessung 5.Presentation of civilian persons on the Russian war showplatz.Italian aviator Maurizio Ramassotto.Second World War. Netherlands under German crew. Relatives of the German Wehrmacht in a park with plastic of a lying deer (well with the Hague)Soissons, Aisne, France Portrait of a soldier of the English colonial army ,  (French - Soissons , Aisne , France Portrait d' un soldat de l' armée coloniale anglaise). Military uniform, portrait, colonial army, man, Clothing, human beings, colonial historyBelgium , 1917 - North of France, Belgium - Paul Castelnau (photographic section of the armies) - (September 1-5) (French - Belgique). Military personality, military uniform, portrait, medal , decoration, decoration, man, army, Personality, clothing, human beings, First World War, Society, General Anthoine, Commt the 1st armyA.B. DecaturMember of the Reichsarbeitsdienst, 1940 - 1942 photograph A member of the Reichsarbeitsdienst with a swastikas around his arm is somewhere in the dunes. To his left a few guns, to his right of a Wehrmacht soldier. On the back is: Abteilungsführer Oberstfeldmstr. Ewers Netherlands photographic support gelatin silver print occupation ~ war NetherlandsSimo Häyhä. The Winter War, Anonymous  General Sanjuro with Colonel Francisco Franco 1921Second World War. Front pictures. Soviet Union. Relatives of the German WehrmachtProperty of Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France Mr. Octave LaPostolet ,  (French - Propriété d' Albert Kahn , Boulogne , France Monsieur Octave Lapostolet). Military uniform, portrait, rear, medal , decoration, hairy, gardener, man, army, Clothing, human beings, First World War, society, Mr Octave Lapostolet 26, 11 1917 France , Boulogne , Mr Octave LapostoletThe British Consul in Smyrna (Mr H Lamb) on the deck of a battleship in a locally-made suit! Following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I, the Greek Army occupied Izmir, but the Greek expedition towards central Anatolia turned into a disaster for both that country and for the local Greeks of Turkey. The Turkish Army retook possession of Izmir on 9 September 1922, effectively ending the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) in the field. Part of the Greek population of the city was forced toThe Winter War. A military conflict between the Soviet union and Finland. It began with a Soviet invasion on november 1939 when Soviet infantery crossed the border on the Karelian Isthmus. About 9500 Swedish volunteer soldiers participated in the war. Here at Rovaniemi, North Finland. Finnish Major General Kurt Wallenius, 1893-1984. He was appointed Commander of the Lapland Group by Gustaf Mannerheim who was commander-in-chief of Finland's defence. The Lapland Group though outnumbered, repulsedPhoto collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Departure from the TabInta to the Netherlands. A captain of the Military Medical Service of the KNIL. 26 February 1948. Batavia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies, Tandjong PriokD. Forg () , Police.  Records of U.S. Army OperationalRebel hangedMarshal Vasily Blucher Red Army Commander. May 5, 1947.Photo collection First World War. German emperor with horse .. 1914-1918}Boer War: a soldier standing on deck after a long recovery from war wounds. Halftone, c. 1900.Putney. From the album: World War I album, 1919, by Herbert Green.The Second Boer War, 1899-1902 Cub, William Skeoch Cumming's friend, at Belfast.'Les avions; Marechal des logis Vialet : 5 avions ennemis.', 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVII. La Guerre Juillet, Aout, Septembre, Octobre, Novembre, Decembre 1916".Ministry of Information Second World War Press Agency Print CollectionGeneral Major of Spitzmüller. .Two soldiers, circa 1915, maker unknown.Unknown soldier in Lenninge during the First World War. Okänd soldat i Lenninge under första världskriget.Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Surabaja: Presentation of Cross of Merit to Lieutenant Mesdag of the artillery. Presentation of the cross of merit on the 2nd lieutenant of artillery, m.h. Mesdag. A major (p.c.j. beynen?) During a speech. January 26, 1948. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, SurabayaPortrait of officer , Military officers.  Records of U.S. Army OperationalKarl A. Morandi, died 1918 , Soldiers, World War, 1914-1918A wounded British soldier making his first attempt to walk with artificial legs.  The photograph was taken at Queen Mary's Convalescent Auxiliary Hospital at Roehampton House.  The hospital specialised in fitting artificial limbs under skilled advice and taught men how to use them.  It was estimated that around 250,000 British soldiers lost limbs during World War I and one million worldwide.     Date: 1915Polar explorer Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, c. 1907-17. He led three British expeditions to the Antarctic, the last and most notable was the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 191417.  (BSLOC_2018_4_88)Property of Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France the soldier Prévot ,  (French - Propriété d' Albert Kahn , Boulogne , France Le soldat Prévot). Military uniform, shipwrecked image, portrait, weapon, hairy, man, army, Clothing, human beings, society, France, Boulogne, Portraits, Mr Prévot 83rd of Infantry, 16, CHM des Cassières in DijonCapt. Kreibaum S.S. KROONLANDRaygorodskiGreek Troops Evzones Greek National Guard - Foreign Troops. November 1, 1944.Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection New Zealand Nurses UniformAbdul Hamid II (Ottoman Turkish: عبد الحميد ثانی, `Abdül-Ḥamīd-i snî; Turkish: İkinci Abdülhamit; 22 September 1842 - 10 February 1918) was the 34th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and the last Sultan to exert effective autocratic control over the fracturing state. He oversaw a period of decline in the power and extent of the Empire, including widespread pogroms and government massacres against the minorities of the Empire (named the Hamidian massacres after him) as well as an assassination attempt, ruling from 31 August 1876 until he was deposed shortly after the 1908 Young Turk Revolution, on 27 April 1909. He was succeeded by his brother Mehmed V. Despite his conservatism and belief in absolute monarchy, Abdul Hamid was responsible for some modest modernization of the Ottoman Empire during his long reign, including reform of the bureaucracy, the ambitious Hijaz Railway project, the establishment of a system for population registration and control over the press, and the founding of tProperty of Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France Mr. Gaston Lazard and his son ,  (French - Propriété d' Albert Kahn , Boulogne , France Monsieur Gaston Lazardet son fils). Military uniform, portrait, family, belt, man, army, Clothing, human beings, society, France, Boulogne, Portraits, Mr Lazare and his sonProperty of Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France Captain Poirier and his son ,  (French - Propriété d' Albert Kahn , Boulogne , France Le capitaine Poirieret son fils). Military personality, military uniform, group portrait, rear, aviator, man, Personality, clothing, human beings, First World War, Capintaine Poirier and Mr 14, 2 1918 France, Boulogne, Portraits, Capintaine Poirier and MRUnidentified Members of the Nazi PartyIn Ujvidek. .Historic greetings card with war motif, woman in uniform in a heart, field postcard, 1900, Historic, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th centuryPortrait of 48180 Private J.A. Devons, NZEF with an unidentified New Zealand soldier., 1917, Sydney, by Martin Studios, James Devons. Gift of Ian Devon and Joanne Mackay in memory of James Aloysius Devons, 2013.Stachiewicz Roman, Jun  Grandson of Piotr Stachiewicz  against the background of a forester's lodge in Babula Circle of the Stachiewicz familyProperty of Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France English aviator ,  (French - Propriété d' Albert Kahn , Boulogne , France Aviateur anglais). Military uniform, shipwrecked image, portrait, rear, medal , decoration, aviator, man, army, Clothing, human beings, First World War, society, France, Boulogne, Portraits, Mr .. (aviator)Piper Laidlaw won the V.C. at Loos (World War I) on 25th September 1915: 'During the worst of the bombardment, seeing that his company was somewhat shaken from the effects of gas, he mounted the parapet, and played his company out of the trench. The effect was immediate, and the company dashed out to the assault. Piper Laidlaw continued playing until her was wounded'.  1915Reims, Marne, Champagne, France portrait of the sub-prefect, Jacques Regner , 1917 - Marne - Fernand Cuville (photographic section of the armies) (French - Reims , Marne , Champagne , France Portrait du Sous-préfet , Jacques Regner). Political figure, military personality, portrait, rear, Personality, human beings, First World War, France, Reims, sub-prefect'Le sous-lieutenant aviateur Marchal', c1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVIII. La Guerre Juillet, Aout, Septembre, Octobre, Novembre, Decembre 1916". Anselme Marchal made a daring flight from France to drop leaflets over Berlin in 1916 during the First World War.Excellent team person at the 11th army. .Old vintage photo of policeman mumbai maharashtra India Copyright: xAjayxGoyal/DinodiaxPhotoxGeneral Faik Paşa, Chairman of the Navy General Staff, divisional / Constantinople, Abdullah FrèresEisenhower Eating LunchMilva poses in uniform.Sgt. T. O'C. Sloane Jr.Date: 1910-1915 - Frank Coffyn . Herman Sundin participates in the Riksmarschen at F 2, 1940 Herman Sundin, head of F 2 Roslagens flying fleet participates in the Riksmarschen, 1940.Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection Type of uniform worn by Sisters, Order of St. John of Jerusalem.03/31/1913. Colonel Belenguer, head of the indigenous police in Melilla.A trench cat sits on a soldiers knee.     Date: 1916Civil War Siberian Partisan Samokhvalov by Otsup, Pyotr Adolfovich (1883-1963)/Russian State Film and Photo Archive, Krasnogorsk/1922/Photograph/Russia/PortraitPortrait, Lieutenant Portrait of a lieutenant in front of a building on the ore.'Aux morts pour la patrie; le premier francais tue a l'ennemi: Le caporal Andre Peugeot, du 44e regiment d'infanterie, et le monument eleve a memoire sur l'emplacement precis ou il trouva la mort, a quelques pas de la ferme Daucourt, au bord de la route conduisant a Delle, sur le territoire de la commune de Joncherey, a une vingtaine de kilometres de Belfort', 1914. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" L'Illustration, Paris, 1924.Levin A and P show - A Highlander, 29 January 1938, by Leslie Adkin.'The 8th Army commander Bernard Law Montgomery', 1942. Artists: Sir John Alexander Hammerton, Unknown.Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Marslied of the December 7 division. Folder of the sheet music of the Marschlied of the December 7 division "seventecember". December 1946. Indonesia, Dutch East IndiesMonseigneur Lafitte, military chaplain, secretary of Cardinal de Florence. Monseigneur Lafitte, Military Chaplain, Secretary of Cardinal De Florence, in front of the Church of the Madeleine, 8th arrondissement, Paris, during the First World War Anonymous. Monseigneur Lafitte, military chaplain, secretary of Cardinal de Florence. Monseigneur Lafitte, military chaplain, secretary of Cardinal de Florence, before the church of the Madeleine, 8th arrondissement, Paris, during the First World War. Draw at gelatin bromide of silver. 1914-1918.Federico Johnson on a bicycle. 1900-1910Women at work during the First World War, Luton, Bedfordshire Mrs Kitchener, a female gravedigger, stands on the church path with her spade and pick over her shoulder, Aley Green Cemetery, Luton. The original caption for this photograph reads: The Woman Grave Digger. A woman who in order to continue the support of a large family has carried on for her husband and his duties during his three years absence in the War.