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Historic Military Portraits

Collection of vintage portraits showcasing military figures in uniform from the late 19th to early 20th century, emphasizing traditional attire and historic significance.

A jolly fine example of a man in uniform (a European sailor) standing next to his tent and sporting a particularly fine moustache. As Sparks sang so memorably: "One Hundred Hairs make a man!" Date: 1907

Toledo, 03/09/1932. Aggression to the Assault Guards during the General Strike. In the image, a guard points out in one of the trucks occupied by the assault guards the shot that caused the death of the driver Juan Antonio Esteras Cortés.

Robert G. Burleigh, died 1918 , Soldiers, World War, 1914-1918

Prince LOUIS ALEXANDER of BATTENBERG British naval commander Date: 1854 - 1921

Elsevier photo collection. New uniforms at the p.t.t. The new uniform is made of blue sheet and is with an open collar. A gray shirt is carried under the uniform coat. The cap has remained the same. March 5, 1951

Anefo photo collection. Marvo number 315 sailor on "Tjerk Hiddes". November 4, 1948

Colonel Tracy C. Dickson, Commanding Officer, Watertown Arsenal, 1917-1918 , Military officers. Records of U.S. Army Operational

Frederich and Franz Jos. of Hohenzollern

Army officer, possibly a captain, field artillery , Military officers. Jack Miller Collection

Soldier and woman portraits, black-and-white negatives, gelatin dry plate negatives

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection Type of uniform worn by Ladies Auxiliary Committe, Y.M.C.A.

Adm. F.C.T. Tudor

Abbe Borde D'Arrere

Sgt. Francis J. Brown

Lt. Thurston E. Wood

Capt. J.P. Coulter

Soldat in Uniform

. 9 Battalion, Royal Fusiliers Captain Lawford was reported missing, aged 29 on 7 October 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. Faces of the First World War Find out more about this First World War Centenary project at www.1914.org/faces. This image is from IWM Collections.

Portrait of the assembly at his promotion to attachment. Portrait of the album's compiler at his promotion to Wachtmeester on August 20, 1940. Standing for Fort Bocclemünd in Cologne.

Portrait of a member of the NSB, 1940 - 1944 photograph Portrait of a member of the NSB. On his collar a distinctive with a Dutch lion and three stripes: Deputy Head of service (verm.), An administrative function. The NSB symbol on his uniform jacket. Barefoot. Netherlands photographic support gelatin silver print anonymous historical person portrayed Netherlands

Second World War. Netherlands under German crew. Relatives of the German Wehrmacht (probably at The Hague)

Capt. J.T.W. Charles

. 8 Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps Captain Lee was killed in action, aged 20, on 24 August 1917 during the Battle of Passchendaele. He is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial. Captain Lee's father, Brigadier General Noel Lee, was also a casualty of the First World War. Brigadier General Lee commanded the Manchester Regiment during 1906-1911. During the early months of the First World War, he served on the General Staff and as Commanding Officer of 127 (Manchester Territorial Force) Brigade, 42 Division. Brigadier General Lee died on 22 June 1915, aged 48, of wounds received during the Battle of Krithia and is buried at Pieta Military Cemetery in Malta. Faces of the First World War Find out more about this First World War Centenary project at www.1914.org/faces. This image is from IWM Collections.

Second World War. Netherlands under German crew. Relatives of the German Wehrmacht in front of a public building (well with the Hague)

Second World War. Netherlands under German crew. Relatives of the German Wehrmacht in front of a residential building (well with the Hague)

The Allies: Portugal: Infantry Soldier. Eugene Burnand (d.1921) .

Officer Informant Portrait. Historic photographs of the Norfolk Naval shipyard located in the Fifth Naval District. Operating under the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy.

Gen. Logan Feland

Capt. W.J. Roberts

James W. Cosgrove, died 1918 , Soldiers, World War, 1914-1918

Fresh August Krecan, Infantry Catalion I./91 with the bronze contraceptive medal.

Gen. C.G. Long

Anefo photo collection. Limburg coal mines. Limburg coal mines. November 21, 1945. Limburg

Second World War. Netherlands under German crew. Portrait of a relatives of the German Wehrmacht in front of a public building (probably at the Hague)

Maj. Philip S. Brown, U.S.M.C.

Gen. W.J. Price

. Royal Garrison Artillery Lt Neville was reported wounded and missing, aged 26, on 25 September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. He is buried at the Guard's Cemetery, Lesboeufs. Faces of the First World War Find out more about this First World War Centenary project at www.1914.org/faces. This image is from IWM Collections.

. 8 Battalion, Royal Fusiliers Pte Green was reported wounded and missing, aged 19, on 7 October 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. Faces of the First World War Find out more about this First World War Centenary project at www.1914.org/faces. This image is from IWM Collections.

. 6 Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment Captain Batty died of wounds received during the Battle of the Somme on 27 September 1916. He was 21 and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. CWGC family information: Son of M. H. Batty, of 294, Worple Rd., Wimbledon, London, and the late Herbert Batty. Faces of the First World War Find out more about this First World War Centenary project at www.1914.org/faces. This image is from IWM Collections.

Chinese Commander heads Shangha I, Nanking, GarrisonsGeneral Chang Chi-Chung, former commander of the Chinese 5th army, is the new Garrison commander for Shanghai and Nanking. He is one of China's Most noted Military men and is also one of the most faithful supporters of the policies of general ***** Chiang Kai-Shek. August 10, 1937. (Photo by ACME Newspictures Inc).

Portrait of an unidentified soldier and an unidentified woman inscribed Watt, 1917-1918, Wellington, by Berry & Co.

Women at work during the First World War Commandant Margaret Damer Dawson OBE and Subcommandant Mary Allen OBE of the Women's Police Service (formerly the Women's Police Volunteers and later the Women's Auxiliary Service). Both were awarded OBEs by King George V in February 1918.

Photographs Relating to the Minor Nuremberg Trials

The Allies in the First World War, British Empire, Non-Commissioned Officer of the Artillery, GW Kimberley, from Hampstead, London, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

A Wehrmacht soldier on a fence, 1940 - 1945 photograph A Wehrmacht soldier sits on a fence. He has black/ white cuffs. Photo belonging to album 'KriegSerinnerungen'. Germany photographic support gelatin silver print Germany. Netherlands

Photograph of Cruiser Hurtt. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Portrait of military air pioneer Elis Nordquist, 1916 . Portrait of military air pioneer Elis Nordquist, from Norrland's artillery regiment. The portrait is signed by Nordquist.

Lt. John W. Cowan

The Prince of Wales in naval uniform, c1910().Artist: W&D Downey

Alexander Diomidovich Kravchenko (1881 - 1923) Russian revolutionary, agronomist and partisan who fought against Admiral Kolchak's White forces in Siberia in 1919 during the Russian Civil War.

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection Typical British Tommy

Portrait of a member of the SD; NSB. Portrait of a member of the SD. It concerns the Dutchman Jan Meekhof (see inscription back). Member of the SD, (German) Sicherheitsdienst. Distinctives don't see, only shoulder cover. As SD, he was involved in various actions against the resistance. For example, he belonged to the fireprooton that 20 Frisians shot on January 26, 1945 in Dokkum as a reprisal. On January 29, 1945 he shot the resistance man Johannes Kolf who resisted his arrest. On December 8, 1944, flask was involved in the robbery on the crowds in Leeuwarden. Johannes "Jodocus" Kolf (1916) worked at the police in Utrecht from 1937 to 1942. He resigned because he could not unite with the work of the police under the German occupation. He was then active in the resistance. He died 29 years old.

The Allies: British Empire: Non-Commissioned Artillery Officer; G. W. Kimberley, of Hampstead, London. Eugene Burnand (d.1931), Drawing, Pastel, Paper, Portrait, Frame, Photograph, Replica, Military, Social history, Armed Forces, War, Works on Paper

Women's War work during the First World War A full-length portrait of a member of the Womens Agriculture Section of the Land Army.

Lieutenant William Leefe Robinson, a member of the RFC No. 39 Home Defence Squadron, shot down a German airship on 2nd September 1916 above Hertfordshire. The British public had feared that German airships were impregnable and Leefe Robinson's feat earned him his Victoria Cross shortly afterwards. He met a premature death shortly after the Armistice when he succumbed to the Spanish flu epidemic in December 1918. The Tatler comments that, "Like all really good men, he is extremely modest ab

Portrait of a member of the NSB; NSB.Portret of a member of the NSB. On its collar a distinctive with the rolling sun path, it is possible for a deputy section leader from one of the guilds or fronts.

Cavalry Schietkamp. "De Vliehors" the Sergeant Administrator at work in the command post tent. To see on the "white sky" and the shape of the windows. The papyrus emblem of the military administration is therefore on his epaulet.

Portrait of a soldier in Uniform, Anonymous, 1941 - 1945 photograph This photo is part of an album. paper. photographic support gelatin silver print historical persons. the soldier; the soldier's life. adult man. (military) uniforms

Reserve Sergeant kite KL J.D. (Judah, Dick) Aquarius, born 3-1-1920. Waterman was seconded to 320 Squadron during the Second World War. He was trained to kite in Canada.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Pasports X. 2nd lieutenant. 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Portrait of an unidentified soldier and an unidentified woman inscribed Green, 1917-1918, Wellington, by Berry & Co.

General Eisenhower Named North Atlantic Defense Forge Commander -- Dwight David Eisenhower as he appeared in June, 1915, when he graduated from WEST ***** U.S. Military Academy as a second Lieutenant of infantry. May 24, 1951.

Anefo photo collection. Marvo recordings "All-Hens". February 20, 1948

Beaugency, France Mohammed Ben Ahmed, from Algiers, posing at the military hospital , 1915-Center of France, Loiret, Indre-et-Loire, Loir-et-Cher-Jean Brunhes and Auguste Léon-(August) (French - Beaugency , France Mohammed ben Ahmed , originaire d' Alger , posant à l' hôpital militaire). Available in high definition, portrait, hospital, rear, colonial army, injured , mutilated, hairstyle , headgear, man, army, HD, human beings, First World War, Colonial History, Health, Society, France, Beaugency, military hospital 47. Mohammed ben Ahmed, Arab of the province of Algiers

Some officers of the Royal Garrison Artillery, self-styled 'The Press Gang'. Standing left to right is Sec.-Lieutenant E. H. Shepard of Punch (best-known for drawing Winnie-the-Pooh), Sec. Lieut. D. C. Maddick (of the Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News from which this photograph is taken), Sec. Lieutenant A. Wallis Mills of Punch (and contributor to various other illustrated magazines) and seated, Lieut. Bruce S. Ingram of the Illustrated London News (editor and grandson of the paper's fo

C.A. ButlerAviators Australia. September 01, 1937.

Captain Walter Edgeworth-Johnstone of the Royal Irish Regiment, Aldershot, Hampshire, 1896.Artist: Gregory & Co

Alan McCoy, grandson of Fort McCoy founder Maj. Gen. Robert Bruce McCoy, stops for a photo in front of a History Center display about his grandfather July 8, 2022, at Fort McCoy, Wis. McCoy family descendants visited the Fort McCoy Commemorative Area and all it offers to learn more about their familys military history with the installation.

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