Historical Military Cartoons

A collection of satirical cartoons from World War I, showcasing humorous perspectives on military conflict and social commentary during wartime.

Cartoon, After the Battle of Meaux, in the early stages of the First World War. The only occasion on which the British Tommy was known to quail -- not during the battle itself, but when a happy French soldier gave him a hug and a kiss afterwards! Date: September 1914

Cartoon - Pistol-Packin' Papa. John Collins (1917-2007)

First World War cartoon, The Change in Ireland. Before the outbreak of war, John Bull was caught uncomfortably between the Ulstermen and the Nationalists, but as soon as Kaiser Wilhelm appears on the scene it becomes clear who the common enemy is. Date: August 1914

Cartoon - Marching Through Georgia. John Collins (1917-2007)

Cartoon, After the Battle of Meaux, in the early stages of the First World War. The only occasion on which the British Tommy was known to quail -- not during the battle itself, but when a happy French soldier gave him a hug and a kiss afterwards! Date: September 1914

Satirical illustration from the L'Assiette au Beurre magazine; the Colonisons! Series. Satirising the intervention of the US in Martinique; "Without the Americans we would have died of hunger."

Netherlands, Cartoon on the battles with the Belgians at Baarle-Nassau, 1831, verso - stamped, Cartoon on the astonished Belgians in their blue smocks who are surprised when the Dutch soldier crosses the border at Baarle-Nassau, Baarle-Duc. During the Ten Days' Campaign, 2-12 August 1831., print, picture, cartoon, prints, pictures, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 223 mm, width 285 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1831 - 1831, paper, papier, lithografie (technique), hand-coloured

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

Cartoon - Chinese Checkers. John Collins (1917-2007)

Black Cat Cigarettes, World war One, propaganda card showing: futile peace efforts during the war

Schmitz, G., Gefreiter (n.1920 - d.), Humorous color illustration: I do not understand. (Title awarded), 1940. Paper, ink. Museum of the Liberation of Paris - General Leclerc Museum - Jean Moulin Museum.

Sketch showing sailors scrubbing the decks and an early visitor getting soaked by them, 1884. Date: 1884

Life in Camp, Part 1: Surgeon's Call After Winslow Homer American Publisher Louis Prang & Co. American 1864 In 1864 Homer designed two series of lithographed collectors cards titled Life in Camp for the Boston publisher Louis Prang & Co. Unlike his serious war-time images for Harpers Weekly, the artist felt free to inject humor into these miniature comments on army life which include images of soldiers resting, eating and reacting to army life. Here, a sick Union soldier is examined by a camp doctor. By 1864 the war was entering its final months and formerly sacrosanct subjects could be approached more lightly.

Black Cat Cigarettes, World war One, propaganda card showing: The German Kaiser Wilhelm II comforting the Turkish Sultan, Mehmed V Red (1844 3 July 1918) was the 35th and penultimate Ottoman Sultan

Scouts running behind a packed horse cart, 1917 drawing A group of four boys in scouting uniform with ropes around the shoulder and one boy in normal clothing runs after a packed horse cart. A man with a whip walks next to the cart. A row of houses in the background. paper. cardboard. India ink (ink). pencil pen / brush (farm) wagon, freight wagon, cart. boy (child between toddler and youth). running. (military) uniforms

Cartoon - King's Foreign Legion. John Collins (1917-2007)

Cartoon, a trader claims to sell everything in his shop. A French soldier says: What if I offered to buy your wife's heart The trader replies: That would be five sous ... but unfortunately I have been a widower for the last three years. Date: 1916

News // This is the they will be able to sit. / (18)

Cartoon - There'll Be Some Recruiting for Another Special Service Force. John Collins (1917-2007)

Cartoon - Legion of Honour. John Collins (1917-2007)

Cartoon, Stall selling tobacco. The trader wonders why soldiers smoke so much more than civilians. The soldier replies that civilians are less in danger of breaking their pipes. Date: 1917

A Greek Anti-Turkish propaganda postcard, showing a disgruntled Greek soldier, standing in front of a very Islamic skyline in reference to the displeasure at the Turkish arrival in Salonica. Date: 1917

The sedan's conspirators / gunner and his suite, waiting for the liner for Boulogne. (TI)

Cartoon - Labor Day Parade-1943. John Collins (1917-2007)

French satirical cartoon 1905 depicting French, German and Spanish rivalry in Morocco. Kaiser Wilhelm II and King Alphonso XIII are shown.

Coast Guard Officer Saves Seaman's Life With American Flag. This image depicts a Coast Guard officer showing a rescued seaman an American flag to prove he was not on a German submarine, painting by Coast Guard Combat Artist Larry O'Toole.

Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell (1857-1941) British soldier, founded Boy Scouts (1908), Girl Guides (1910) and Wolf Cubs (1916). In 2nd Boer War he won fame as the defender of Mafeking. Desperate times before relief of Mafeking by Lord Roberts, 19 May 1900.

Cartoon - Plain of Jars. John Collins (1917-2007)

Kingdom of Italy. Armed forces and colonial ventures. Against the Rudini government's policy of consolidation. Lithography, 1896.

Cartoon - Another Tank to Fill. John Collins (1917-2007)

Digitally restored vector war propaganda poster. This vintage World War II poster features a boot labeled You and I stamping down on two snakes and a bullfrog representing Germany and Japan. It declares - Stamp 'Em Out! Beat Your Promise.

Two standing wanderers greet a military officer, Carl Frederik Lobeck Rögind, 1902 drawing paper. ink. pencil pen the poor. soldiers and civilians

German Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz (1849-1930) with his answer to British naval strength. He promoted unrestricted submarine warfare. William Allen Rogers (1854-1931) American artist. World War I 1914-1918. Naval

Cartoon - Nov. 11, 1944. John Collins (1917-2007)

Impression of a World War One soldier from one of the Scottish Highland regiments, marching along wearing a kilt and smoking a cigarette. The drawing on a postcard is by George Ranstead, an amateur artist of the Great War who served in the Army Pay Corps and drew a large number of postcards during the period. Date: 1919

Man salutes officer as he passes, then sweeps dirt onto his back , Military personnel, Saluting, Sweeping & dusting, Military facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Chardon. / 37.

Ingersoll Sergeant cutter driven by compressed air, vintage engraved illustration. Industrial encyclopedia E.-O. Lami - 1875.

Cartoon - The Watch on the Rhine. John Collins (1917-2007)

I'm still hanging on around here! , Military personnel, Military training, Military facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

A Fake Rumor: These Are U.S. Defense Posters -- Inconceivable would be a war without posters. Like bands, parades, flags and patriotic speeches, they are designed to rouse peaceful citizens to deeds of daring and hard work. Since America's entry into World War II, posters are being hung in defense factories during workers to obey regulations work hard, keep their mouths shut, look out for fifth columnists and saboteurs. Creators of these new cartoon-posters are Cy Hungerford, famous cartoonist

1871 by Faustin. / To serve to perpetuate the Prussian memory / occupation. / N ° 1

Kitchener attempts to rouse French youths : Come on, kids, surely you want to fight for England Date: May 1915

Black Cat Cigarettes, World war One, propaganda card showing: a figure of death drinking the blood of civilisation

Russia, 20th century. World War I - Caricature depicting William II terrified at the sight of a Cossack, October 14, 1914. Engraving by Machistof, Moscow.

Cartoon - Courage. John Collins (1917-2007)

A page of silhouettes by Captain Harry Lawrence Oakley depicting British soldiers in a variety of situations on the Western Front in 1916. Date: 1916

Front cover design for La Baionnette, an issue focusing on auxiliary services during the First World War. Date: 1917

Primera guerra mundial (1914-1918). Caricaturas de dirigentes militares de la alianza austroalemana. Año 1914.

When Japan enters the war, John Bull finds the Rising Sun a little too hot for him ! Date: 1915

Out of the frying pan - pathetic plight of unconscientious conscientious objector who learns in the Press that he may be put on to minesweeping. Conscription was introduced in Britain in March 1916 and conscientious objectors went before a Military Service Tribunal. They were generally, by this point in World War One, viewed unsympathetically. Date: 1916

How do you like it Monsieur - News of the Franco-American alliance rekindled long seated anti French sentiments in England. This British cartoon shows a personified Britain kicking his traditional and contemptuous enemy, France. American Revolution.

Gefreiter der k.k. Landwehr-Infanterie (Inspectionsdienst-Adjustierung) 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, Austria

We don't care if you did see it done in the circus, come out of there! , Artillery Weaponry, Military personnel, Military life, Military facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Front cover design for La Baionnette, an issue focusing on soldiers who enjoy a joke. Date: 1916

Black Cat Cigarettes, World war One, propaganda card showing: President Woodrow Wilson in conversation with Herbert Asquith of Great Britain

Thanks to their U-boats, the German navy will drown John Bull Date: 1915

N ° 40 / News / Great Occupation of General Moltke (IT)

Picture Post Card, Sikko van der Woude, 1945 One of eight 'funny' postcards, drawings in color of traditional Dutch and (most Scottish) soldiers put into traditional costumes. Note: Eight postcards in envelope with text in red and blue in red-white-blue frame. Netherlands paper printing Netherlands

'The general's car, huh!' , Military personnel, Wheelbarrows, Military life, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Cartoon - Going to Run Our Defence Like the Post Office . John Collins (1917-2007)

We are giving these yellow bellied Japs what's comin' to them - and how! , Military personnel, Bayonets, Emperors, Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, 1901-1989, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Εύζων - Evzon , Soldiers, Bugles, Greece. Stratos. Euzōnoi. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection

WHAT ALCOHOL DOES. Cartoon of bottle on a cannon caisson launching devastation on a community. From 'The Shadow of the Bottle,' 1915 book advocating nation-wide prohibition of the liquor traffic (BSLOC_2016_8_59)

Achille Beltrame (1871-1945), The Domenica del Corriere (Italian Sunday newspaper) from 10th December 1905. The German meat famine: illustration showing train loads of geece arriving from Russia for the German people.

Soviet boy and girl post a leter to a soldier at the front They are in their winter clothes and the boy has a tough rifle. Card posted 24 Decemebr 1942 during World War II.

Red Guards Don't Want Blood, But They Are Ready Krasnyi strazh ne khochet krovi, no stoit on na gotove. Moor, Dmitri Stakhievich, 1883-1946. 1921. Posters. Manuscripts and Archives Division. Soviet Union , History , 1917-1936, Political posters, Russian

New York 1953-1955 , Civil defense. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization

Say! You're pretty lucky buddy, lookit the clothes I got... , Military personnel, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

The Second Sino-Japanese War (July 7, 1937 - September 9, 1945) was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the war merged into the greater conflict of World War II as a major front of what is broadly known as the Pacific War. Although the two countries had fought intermittently since 1931, total war started in earnest in 1937 and ended only with the surrender of Japan in 1945. The war was the result of a decades-long Japanese imperialist policy aiming to dominate China politically and militarily and to secure its vast raw material reserves and other economic resources, particularly food and labour. Before 1937, China and Japan fought in small, localized engagements. Yet the two sides, for a variety of reasons, refrained from fighting a total war. In 1931, the Japanese invasion of Manchuria by Japan's Kwantung Army followed the Mukden Incident. The last of these incidents was the Marco Polo B

Gareth, with the Damsel Lynette by his side, met the Black Knight and here is jousting with him.

Cartoon, a group of old and middle aged French soldiers sit round the campfire near Verdun as the snow falls. Date: 1916

Humorous illustration by H. M. Bateman, part of his acclaimed, 'The Man Who...' series in The Tatler showing Bateman's archetypal blustering colonel about to quite literally blow his top at a regimental officers' dinner, on discovering that a lowly second lieutenant has mistakenly taken his savoury starter. The Second Lieutenant, in true Bateman tradition is reduced to a shaking, google-eyed, green-hued terrified wreck on realising his faux-pas. Date: 1933

Cartoon - Vichy Water. John Collins (1917-2007)

This will give you a line on how I'm doin' here! This is the guy who always sent his laundry out! , Military personnel, Laundry, Clotheslines, Military facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

A series of silhouettes by Captain H. L. Oakley showing some humorous episodes in engagement between the British and Germans on the Western Front during World War One. Date: 1917

"Vanities of Valdes: The Munitioneers" This resounding message of Allied female solidarity shows "Mary" of Britain and "Marianne" of France, who, together with Russia and Italy will make enough shells to overcome "Gretel" of Germany and her stealthy war preperations. The munitionettes were integral to the war effort, and it as vital that the allied munitions factories should out-produce the enemy. 1915

"How proud my wife and daughter will be of me!" Date: 22 June 1916

Over the top for victory , Military personnel, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Switzerland, 1875-1909 part 1. 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, Switzerland

Poster, 'They Shall Beat Their Swords Into Plowshares' posters

The Korean War (25 June 1950 - armistice signed 27 July 1953) was a military conflict between the Republic of Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's Republic of China (PRC), with military material aid from the Soviet Union. The war was a result of the physical division of Korea by an agreement of the victorious Allies at the conclusion of the Pacific War at the end of World War II. The Korean peninsula was ruled by Japan from 1910 until the end of World War II. Following the surrender of Japan in 1945, American administrators divided the peninsula along the 38th Parallel, with United States troops occupying the southern part and Soviet troops occupying the northern part. The failure to hold free elections throughout the Korean Peninsula in 1948 deepened the division between the two sides, and the North established a Communist government. The situation escalated into open warfare when North Korean forces invaded South Korea on 25 June 1950. It

An autobiographical sketch by William Heath Robinson, published in his memoirs, My Line of Life, illustrating an incident at St. Nazaire when he visited the American Army in France. Unable to produce the correct papers to explain why he was there, he narrowly avoided arrest. Date: 1918

'It's water, but it's good' , Military personnel, Water, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

KELLY'S HEROES (1970).

Casabianca' (The boy stood on the burning deck/Whence all but he had fled). At the Battle of the Nile (1798) Giocante, the 12-year old son of Luce Julien Joseph Casabianca, remained at his post on the deck of his father's burning vessel L'Orient, the French flagship. He perished when the fire reached the magazine and the ship exploded. The event was marked by the English poet Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793-1835). Print, c1913.

The Captain attacks Black Dog. Date: First published: 1883

Calling the Merry Men, Fictional Characters

Making up bunks, Ordnance Training Center, Aberdeen, Maryland , Military facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Military-themed toys for Christmas giifts, Germany, World War I, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLI, No 52, December 27, 1914.

Black Cat Cigarettes, World war One, propaganda card showing: French casualties dying from the effects of a gas attack

"It never rains but it pours". Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs , pp/liljpaper. Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Enemy in sight ! The commander of an Italian submarine in World War Two spots a British vessel and prepares to sink her.

Sir Francis Drake, Pirates

The American Fireman; Facing the Enemy.

Just another stripe happy guy! , Military personnel, Military uniforms, Military facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

'Throw my butt in the can, huh!' , Military personnel, Trash cans, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

To Protect and Serve, Police, Law Enforce, & Crime

Hot dog! , Military personnel, Water, Military life, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Coloured illustration by Ben of a politician speaking at a microphone flanked by a giant military personnel.

Hussars in the garden of the shooterMeissen. Hussars in the garden of the shooter

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